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In Washington DC, Amharic became one of the six non-English languages in the Language Access Act of 2004, which allows government services and education in Amharic. [ 33 ] Furthermore, Amharic is considered a holy language by the Rastafari religion and is widely used among its followers worldwide.
Until 2020 Amharic was the sole official language of Ethiopia. [18] [19] [3] [20] [21] The 2007 census reported that Amharic was spoken by 21.6 million native speakers in Ethiopia. [22] More recent sources state the number of first-language speakers in 2018 as nearly 32 million, with another 25 million second-language speakers in Ethiopia. [11]
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Amharic on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Amharic in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
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 ...
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Generally Ethio/Eritrean Semitic languages (e.g. Geʽez, Tigrinya, Amharic, Tigre, Guragigna, Harari, etc.), but also some Cushitic languages and Nilotic languages. Bilen, Meʼen, as one of two scripts in Anuak, are examples, and unofficially used in other languages of Ethiopia and languages of Eritrea.
For example, in Ethiopia there is a proverb "Of mothers and water, there is none evil." It is found in Amharic, Alaaba language, and Oromo, three languages of Ethiopia: Oromo: Hadhaa fi bishaan, hamaa hin qaban. Amharic: Käənnatənna wəha, kəfu yälläm. Alaaba: Wiihaa ʔamaataa hiilu yoosebaʔa [100]