Amharic

Also known as am

Amharic is an Ethio-Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amhara people, and also serves as a lingua franca for all other metropolitan populations in Ethiopia.

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Amharic is a language spoken primarily by the Amhara people in Ethiopia and belongs to the Semitic language family. It serves as a common language that enables people across Ethiopia's different ethnic groups to communicate with each other in urban areas.

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Language.dia1: Gondar
Language.dia2: Gojjam
Language.dia3: Wollo
Language.dia4: Shewa
Language.name: Amharic
Language.states: Ethiopia
Language.ethnicity: Amhara
Language.speakers: L1: million
Language.date: 2020
Language.speakers2: L2: million (2019) Total: million (2019–2020)
Language.speakers_label: Speakers
Language.familycolor: Afro-Asiatic
Language.fam2: Semitic
Language.fam3: West Semitic
Language.fam4: South Semitic
Language.fam5: Ethiopic
Language.fam6: South
Language.fam7: Transversal

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Commons category: Amharic language
Wikimedia language code: am
native label: አማርኛ
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/AMH
P10369: alcoholic beverage
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 25000000
P8168: 3889 Menshikov
P13311: Cella Dati

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Contents

Dialects
Jewish Amharic
History
Linguistic development theory
Phonology
Allophones
Examples
Writing system
Alphasyllabary
Gemination
Punctuation
Grammar
Pronouns
Personal pronouns
Reflexive pronouns
Demonstrative pronouns
Nouns
Gender
Specifiers
Plural
Archaic forms
Definiteness
Accusative
Nominalization
Copula
Negative Copula
Past Copula
Future Copula
Subordinate Copula
Possession
Verbs
Verb Stems
Triradicals
Biradicals
Quadriradicals
Derived stems
Conjugation
Perfect
Simple Imperfect
Compound Imperfect
Jussive
Imperative
Participles
Verbal Nouns
Gerund
Verbal use
Adverbial use
Adjectives
Nominal patterns
Denominalizing suffixes
Prefix {{Lang|am-latn|yä}}
Adjective noun complex
Literature
Rastafari movement
Software
See also
Notes
References
Citations
Grammar
Dictionaries
External links

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. In 2020 in Ethiopia, it had over 33.7 million mother-tongue speakers of which 31 million are ethnically Amhara, and more than 25.1 million second language speakers in 2019, making the total number of speakers over 58.8 million. Amharic is the largest, most widely spoken language in Ethiopia, and the most spoken mother-tongue in Ethiopia. Amharic is also the second most widely spoken Semitic language in the world (after Arabic).