Countries
India
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
Prakrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5233
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
167
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3631
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
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
20 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Selam
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
i'bakwon
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
aznallehu
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
tschao
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Not present
Gondar
Where They Speak
-
Gondar
How Many People Speak
140,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Gojjami
Where They Speak
-
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
140,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Showa
Where They Speak
-
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
140,000.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
05
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
14.10 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
14.10 million25.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-10.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
sanskrit
amharique
German Name
Sanskrit
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Amharas
Origin
2000 B.C.
13th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Semitic
Branch
Indic
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Amharic
Language Position
2355
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
amh
ISO 639 2/B
san
amh
ISO 639 3
san
amh
ISO 639 6
san
amh
Glottocode
sans1269
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Fusional