Amharic
Semitic language of Ethiopia
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Summary
Amharic is a natural language[1]. Amharic draws 20,920 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #91 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Ethiopia[3], Eritrea[4], Somalia[5], Sudan[6], Israel[7]
- Instance of: modern language[8]
- Subclass of: Ethiopian Semitic[9], Semitic[10]
- Writing system: Geʽez script[11]
- Commons category: Amharic language[12]
- Wikimedia language code: am[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Amharic language[14]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 21,900,000[15], 25,000,000[16]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Encyclopedic Lexicon[18], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[19]
- Topic has template: Q36457667[20]
- Native label: አማርኛ[21]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C153833[22]
- UNESCO language status: 1 safe[23]
- Indigenous to: Addis Ababa[24], Amhara Region[25]
- Has phoneme: bilabial ejective[26], alveolar ejective[27], velar ejective[28], postalveolar ejective fricative[29], alveolar ejective fricative[30]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/AMH[31]
- Has tense: present tense[32], past tense[33], future tense[34]
- Ethnologue language status: 1 National[35]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[36], adjective-noun[37], fusional language[38], synthetic language[39], postposition[40], stress[41], nominative–accusative language[42]
Why It Matters
Amharic has Wikipedia articles in 123 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] Amharic is known by 48 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]