Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
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Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Marathi
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3352
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
716
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3136
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Devanagari
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 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
Namaskar
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
kaso assa?
Good Night
Dehna dur
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
i'bakwon
Chike
Sorry
aznallehu
Maf kor
Bye
tschao
Adeus
I Love You
afekirishalehu
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
yiqirta
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Gondar
Antruz
Where They Speak
Gondar
Goa
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Not present
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
-
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Showa
Not present
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
-
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
51
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
አማርኛ
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
amharique
konkani
German Name
Amharisch
Konkani
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Amharas
Konkanis
Origin
13th century
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
Ethiopic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
No early forms
Standard Forms
Amharic
Kokani
Language Position
5523
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
am
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
kok
ISO 639 2/B
amh
kok
ISO 639 3
amh
kok
ISO 639 6
amh
kok
Glottocode
amha1245
goan1235
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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