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Amharic is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas, and also serves as a lingua franca for other populations residing in major cities and towns of Ethiopia. | |||
The language serves as the working language of Ethiopia, and is also the working language of several of the states within the Ethiopian federal system.[9] With 31,800,000 mother-tongue speakers as of 2018, plus another 25,100,000 second language speakers, Amharic is the second most commonly-spoken mother-tongue of Ethiopia (after Oromo), but the most widely spoken in terms of total speakers. It is also the second-most commonly spoken Semitic language in the world (after Arabic). | |||
===Sources=== | |||
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic | |||
==Dictionaries== | ==Dictionaries== | ||
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Facts about Amharic
- Language code (ISO 639-3):
amh
- Autonyms (how to write "Amharic" in Amharic):
ኣማርኛ
- Other names for "Amharic":
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian, Beta Israel ("Falasha")
- The Amharic language is spoken in:
Ethiopia
Amharic is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas, and also serves as a lingua franca for other populations residing in major cities and towns of Ethiopia.
The language serves as the working language of Ethiopia, and is also the working language of several of the states within the Ethiopian federal system.[9] With 31,800,000 mother-tongue speakers as of 2018, plus another 25,100,000 second language speakers, Amharic is the second most commonly-spoken mother-tongue of Ethiopia (after Oromo), but the most widely spoken in terms of total speakers. It is also the second-most commonly spoken Semitic language in the world (after Arabic).
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic
Dictionaries
• Dictionary of the Amharic Language by Charles William Isenberg (1841)
• English > Amharic dictionary
• Outlines of Amharic, containing an English, Oordoo and Amharic Vocabulary, by Carolus Henricus Blumhardt (1867) (in Roman characters)
• La clé de la conversation abyssine: French-Amharic vocabulary, phrases, conversations, by A. Raad & B. Ghaleb (1910)
• Lexicon linguae aethiopicae: Ethiopian-Latin dictionary, with an index of Latin words, by August Dillmann (1865)