Countries
Nigeria
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Ethiopia
Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
- 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
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4433
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
127
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3231
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
sannu
Selam
Thank You
gode ku
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
yaya dai
Dehina newot?
Good Night
mai kyau dare
Dehna dur
Good Evening
barka da yamma
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
i'ndemin adäru
Please
Don Allah
i'bakwon
Sorry
yi hakuri
aznallehu
Bye
sai anjima
tschao
I Love You
Ina son ku
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
gafara dai
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Gondar
Where They Speak
Ghana
Gondar
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Niger
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daragaram
Showa
Where They Speak
Niger
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
50.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
205
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
haoussa
amharique
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Amharas
Origin
14
13th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Chadic
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Hausa
Amharic
Language Position
3455
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ha
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
amh
ISO 639 2/B
hau
amh
ISO 639 3
hau
amh
ISO 639 6
hau
amh
Glottocode
haus1257
amha1245
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Fusional