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Amharic is also the second most widely spoken Semitic language in the world (after Arabic). [11] [12] Amharic is written left-to-right using a system that grew out of the Geʽez script. [13] The segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units is called an abugida (አቡጊዳ). [14]
The root l-ḥ-m means "meat" in Arabic, but "bread" in Hebrew and "cow" in Ethiopian Semitic; the original meaning was most probably "food". The word medina (root: d-y-n/d-w-n) has the meaning of "metropolis" in Amharic, "city" in Arabic and Ancient Hebrew, and "State" in Modern Hebrew. There is sometimes no relation between the roots.
[12] [29] [1] [30] [31] Amharic is the most widely spoken and written language in Ethiopia. As of 2018, Amharic was spoken by 31.8 million native speakers in Ethiopia [6] with over 25 million secondary speakers in the nation. [6] Although additional languages are used, Amharic is still predominantly spoken by all ethnic groups in Addis Ababa.
Most Berber languages have a high percentage of borrowing and influence from the Arabic language, as well as from other languages. [4] For example, Arabic loanwords represent 35% [5] to 46% [6] of the total vocabulary of the Kabyle language, and represent 51.7% of the total vocabulary of Tarifit. [7]
[55] [54] Arabic, spoken in both Asia and Africa, is by far the most widely spoken Afroasiatic language today, [4] with around 300 million native speakers, while the Ethiopian Amharic language has around 25 million; collectively, Semitic is the largest branch of Afroasiatic by number of current speakers. [7]
The family's most extensive branch, the Semitic languages (including Arabic, Amharic and Hebrew among others), is the only branch of Afroasiatic that is spoken outside Africa. [ 9 ] Some of the most widely spoken Afroasiatic languages include Arabic (a Semitic language, and a recent arrival from West Asia), Somali (Cushitic), Berber (Berber ...
With 57,500,000 total speakers as of 2019, including around 25,100,000 second language speakers, Amharic is the most widely spoken of the group, the most widely spoken language of Ethiopia and second-most widely spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic. [3] [4] Tigrinya has 7 million speakers and is the most widely spoken language in ...
For Geʽez, Amharic, Tigrinya and Tigre, the usual sort order is called halähamä (h–l–ħ–m). Where the labiovelar variants are used, these come immediately after the basic consonant and are followed by other variants. In Tigrinya, for example, the letters based on ከ come in this order: ከ, ኰ, ኸ, ዀ. In Bilen, the sorting order ...