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अम्हारिक
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
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Amharic languageFusional languagesISO language articles citing sources other than EthnologueLanguage articles citing Ethnologue 25Language articles citing Ethnologue 28Language articles with Linguasphere codeLanguages of EthiopiaLanguages with ISO 639-1 codeLanguages with ISO 639-2 codeLanguages written in Geʽez scriptSouth Semitic languages