Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
14
0
46
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National Language
Ethiopia
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
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Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
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Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3333
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
710
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3121
9
60
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Scripts
Ethiopic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Selam
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
amesege'nallo'
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Dehina newot?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Dehna dur
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
melkam meshe't
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
i'bakwon
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
aznallehu
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
tschao
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
afekirishalehu
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
yiqirta
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Gondar
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Gondar
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Gojjami
Olonets
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Olonets
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Showa
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Ethiopia
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
513
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
18.70 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.37 %2.33 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million166.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
10.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
አማርኛ
Русский
Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
Russki
French Name
amharique
russe
German Name
Amharisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Amharas
Russians
Origin
13th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Semitic
Slavic
Branch
Ethiopic
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Ge'ez
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Amharic
Standard Russian
Language Position
557
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Amharic
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
am
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
amh
rus
ISO 639 2/B
amh
rus
ISO 639 3
amh
rus
ISO 639 6
amh
rus
Glottocode
amha1245
russ1263
Linguasphere
12-ACB-a
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional, Synthetic