Countries
India
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Bangladesh, India
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
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Interesting Facts
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
- 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.
Similar To
Bengali and Oriya
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5233
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
117
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4131
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali
Ethiopic
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
nomoskaar
Selam
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
Dehina newot?
Good Night
subhoraattri
Dehna dur
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
suprobhaat
i'ndemin adäru
Please
anugroha kori
i'bakwon
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
aznallehu
Bye
biḍai
tschao
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
Gondar
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Gondar
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Goalpariya
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Western Assam
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
Showa
Where They Speak
Assam
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million18.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
assamais
amharique
German Name
Assamesisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Assamese people
Amharas
Origin
7th century A.D
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Kamarupa
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Assamese
Amharic
Language Position
6555
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Assamese
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
as
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
asm
amh
ISO 639 2/B
asm
amh
ISO 639 3
asm
amh
ISO 639 6
asm
amh
Glottocode
assa1263
amha1245
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional