Amharic > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Amharic
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Amharisch; Abyssinian; Ethiopian; Amarinya; Amarigna
Spoken in:
Sweden, Israel, Egypt, Ethiopia
Number of speakers:
17,400,000 in Ethiopia (1994 census). 14,743,556 monolinguals. Population total all countries: 17,528,500
(Ethnologue)
Code:
amh
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
AA Group; Amharic-Argobba; North (amha)
Map of Amharic
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