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زبان امهری

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زبان

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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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Instance of: modern language
Subclass of: Semitic
Country: Israel
Image: Amharic.png

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linguistic typology: postposition
writing system: Geʽez script
Commons category: Amharic language
topic's main category: Category:Amharic language
Wikimedia language code: am
native label: አማርኛ
category for films in this language: Category:Amharic-language films
indigenous to: Amhara Region
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/AMH
P10369: alcoholic beverage
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 25000000
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
P8168: 3889 Menshikov
has grammatical gender: feminine
has tense: future tense
P13311: Cella Dati
topic has template: Q36457667

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