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Additionally, 3 million emigrants outside of Ethiopia speak the language. [citation needed] Most of the Ethiopian Jewish communities in Ethiopia and Israel speak Amharic. [23] [citation needed] [24] Furthermore, Amharic is considered a holy language by the Rastafari religion and is widely used among its followers worldwide.
[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.
They form the western branch of the South Semitic languages, itself a sub-branch of Semitic, part of the Afroasiatic language family. 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 ...
With more than 41.7 million speakers [13] making up 33.8% of the total Ethiopian population, [14] Oromo has the largest number of native speakers in Ethiopia, and ranks as the second most widely spoken language in Ethiopia by total number of speakers (including second-language speakers) following Amharic. [15]
For example, in the word Kambaata, the double letters aa indicate length. The language of inter‐ethnic communication is Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia. Kambatas have Amharic names, and some even speak Amharic as their first language. These days, traditional Kambata names are hardly given to children.
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 ...
Most of the Ethiopian Jewish communities in Ethiopia and Israel speak Amharic. [72] Many followers of the Rastafari movement learn Amharic as a second language, as they consider it to be a sacred language. [73] Amharic is the working language of the federal authorities of the Ethiopian government, and one of the five official languages of Ethiopia.
Each vowel order similarly alters the Geʽez letters. Though there are many irregularities, the letters of the same order resemble one another in at least one aspect, the aspect that characterized the order. Although the Amharic script can form simple syllables with one letter, it may take multiple letters to form one complex syllable.