Amharic language

Amharic
	አማርኛ (Amarəñña)
Pronunciation	[amarɨɲːa]
Native to	Ethiopia
Ethnicity	Amhara
Native speakers	22,000,000 (2007 Population and Housing Census)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic South Semitic Ethiopian South Transversal Amharic–Argobba Amharic; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Ge'ez script (Amharic syllabary); Amharic Braille
Signed forms	Signed Amharic
Official status
Official language in	Ethiopia
Regulated by	Imperial Academy (former)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	am
ISO 639-2	amh
ISO 639-3	amh
Glottolog	amha1245
Linguasphere	12-ACB-a
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Amharic (አማርኛ āmariññā) is a Semitic language spoken in North Central Ethiopia by the Amhara. It is the second most spoken Semitic language after Arabic, and the official language of Ethiopia. Amharic is also the official or working language of several of the states, including Amhara Region and the multi-ethnic Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region.

References[change | change source]

↑ Central Statistical Agency. 2010. "Population and Housing Census 2007 Report, National". Accessed 13 December 2016].
↑ Lewis, Lewis M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D. (2015). Amharic Ethnologue: Languages of the World. SIL International. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
↑ Morgan, Mike (9 April 2010). "Complexities of Ethiopian Sign Language Contact Phenomena; Implications for AAU". l'Alliance française et le Centre Français des Etudes Ethiopiennes. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Amharic". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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Amharic
አማርኛ (Amarəñña)
Pronunciation	[amarɨɲːa]
Native to	Ethiopia
Ethnicity	Amhara
Native speakers	22,000,000^[1]^[2] (2007 Population and Housing Census)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic South Semitic Ethiopian South Transversal Amharic–Argobba Amharic
Writing system	Ge'ez script (Amharic syllabary) Amharic Braille
Signed forms	Signed Amharic^[3]
Official status
Official language in	Ethiopia
Regulated by	Imperial Academy (former)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	`am`
ISO 639-2	`amh`
ISO 639-3	`amh`
Glottolog	`amha1245`^[4]
Linguasphere	`12-ACB-a`
This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For a guide to IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.