Amharic
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An Amharic is an Ethiopian Semitic Language that is spoken as a native language by the Amhara people.
- Context:
- It is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages.
- It is also a lingua franca spoken by people residing in major urban areas of Ethiopia.
- Example(s)
- አማርኛ
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Aramaic, Amara Language, Arabic, Ethiopia, Amhara People, Semitic Languages, West Semitic Languages, South Semitic Languages, Geʽez Script.
References
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic Retrieved:2022-10-4.
- 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 official working language of the Ethiopian federal government, and is also the official or working language of several of Ethiopia's federal regions. 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). [1] Amharic is written left-to-right using a system that grew out of the Geʽez script. Adugna, Gabe. "Research: Language Learning - Amharic: Home". library.bu.edu. Retrieved 8 December 2021.</ref> The segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units is called an abugida (). The graphemes are called fidäl, which means "script", "alphabet", "letter", or "character".
There is no universally agreed-upon Romanization of Amharic into Latin script. The Amharic examples in the sections below use one system that is common among linguists specialising in Ethiopian Semitic languages.
- 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 official working language of the Ethiopian federal government, and is also the official or working language of several of Ethiopia's federal regions. 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). [1] Amharic is written left-to-right using a system that grew out of the Geʽez script. Adugna, Gabe. "Research: Language Learning - Amharic: Home". library.bu.edu. Retrieved 8 December 2021.</ref> The segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units is called an abugida (). The graphemes are called fidäl, which means "script", "alphabet", "letter", or "character".
- ↑ "The world factbook". cia.gov. 2 March 2022.