Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Regulated By
-
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3332
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
712
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3120
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
Sveiki
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
Ačiū
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Dehna dur
Labanakt
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
Laba diena
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
Labas rytas
Please
i'bakwon
Prašom
Sorry
aznallehu
atsiprašau
Bye
tschao
Ate
I Love You
afekirishalehu
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
yiqirta
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Gondar
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Gondar
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Gojjami
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Showa
Curonian
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
510
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
18.70 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
10.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
አማርኛ
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
amharique
lituanien
German Name
Amharisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Lithuanians
Origin
13th century
c. 1503
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Semitic
-
Branch
Ethiopic
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
No early forms
Standard Forms
Amharic
Lithuanian
Language Position
5544
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
lit
ISO 639 2/B
amh
lit
ISO 639 3
amh
lit
ISO 639 6
amh
lit
Glottocode
amha1245
lith1251
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Synthetic