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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

Total No. Of Countries

71
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Ethiopia

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
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Interesting Facts

  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  • 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages

Derived From

Albanian Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2633
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

107
0 32
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How Many Consonants

931
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Ethiopic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Selam

Thank You

Danke
amesege'nallo'

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Dehina newot?

Good Night

gute Nacht
Dehna dur

Good Evening

guten Abend
melkam meshe't

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
i'ndemin walu

Good Morning

guten Morgen
i'ndemin adäru

Please

bitte
i'bakwon

Sorry

Verzeihung
aznallehu

Bye

Tschüs
tschao

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
afekirishalehu

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
yiqirta

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Gondar

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Gondar

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Gojjami

Where They Speak

Germany
Ethiopia

How Many People Speak

820,000.0022,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Showa

Where They Speak

Texas
Ethiopia

How Many People Speak

6,000.0022,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

285
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million18.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.37 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million10.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
አማርኛ

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian

French Name

allemand
amharique

German Name

Deutsch
Amharisch

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[amarɨɲɲa]

Ethnicity

Germans
Amharas

History

Origin

6th Century AD
13th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Semitic

Branch

Western
Ethiopic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Ge'ez

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Amharic

Language Position

955
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Signed Amharic

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

de
am

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
amh

ISO 639 2/B

ger
amh

ISO 639 3

deu
amh

ISO 639 6

deus
amh

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
amha1245

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
12-ACB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
Fusional

German and Amharic Alphabets

German and Amharic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Amharic. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Amharic Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn German and Amharic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Amharic languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Amharic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Amharic are Most Spoken Languages.

All German and Amharic Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Amharic dialects. Various dialects of German and Amharic language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Amharic Dialects are spoken in different Amharic speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Amharic Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Amharic dialects include: Gondar , Gojjami. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

German and Amharic Speaking population

German and Amharic speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Amharic languages can be compared. The total count of German and Amharic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Amharic on German vs Amharic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Amharic Language Codes

German and Amharic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Amharic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.