Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Macedonian language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3330
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
76
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3136
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Dehna dur
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
i'bakwon
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
aznallehu
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
tschao
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
yiqirta
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Gondar
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Gondar
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
558
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
አማርኛ
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Balgarski
French Name
amharique
bulgare
German Name
Amharisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Bulgarian people
Origin
13th century
9th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Slavic
Branch
Ethiopic
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Amharic
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
5588
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
bul
ISO 639 2/B
amh
bul
ISO 639 3
amh
bul
ISO 639 6
amh
buls
Glottocode
amha1245
bulg1262
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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