Amharic

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Amharic is a Semitic language widely spoken in Ethiopia and used as a major language of government, education, and media in the country.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Semitic language
natural language
branch Ethiopian Semitic
closelyRelatedTo Geʽez
Tigrinya
family Afroasiatic
hasDigitalSupport Unicode
major operating systems and mobile platforms
hasLiteraryTraditionSince at least the 14th century
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic
English
Geʽez
Italian language
surface form: Italian
hasMorphologicalFeature rich verb conjugation
root-and-pattern morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
hasReligionAssociatedUsage Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
hasStandardForm Amharic self-linksurface differs
surface form: Standard Amharic of Addis Ababa
hasSyntacticFeature basic SOV word order
historicalAncestor Geʽez
languageCodeISO639-1 am
languageCodeISO639-2 amh
languageCodeISO639-3 amh
nativeSpeakers tens of millions
nativeSpeakersRegion Addis Ababa
central Ethiopia
officialStatus official language of several regional states in Ethiopia
working language of the Federal Government of Ethiopia
primaryCountry Ethiopia
scriptDirection left-to-right
subbranch South Semitic languages
surface form: South Semitic
subfamily Semitic
totalSpeakers tens of millions
usedAs lingua franca in Ethiopia
usedBy Amhara (commonly reported)
surface form: Amhara people

many other ethnic groups in Ethiopia
usedIn Ethiopian film industry
Ethiopian popular music
Ethiopian print media
education in Ethiopia
government in Ethiopia
media in Ethiopia
usedInDiasporaCommunities Canada
Europe
Israel
United States of America
surface form: United States
writingSystem Geʽez script
writingSystemType abugida

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Southern Gumuz contactWith Amharic
Scioa languageUsed Amharic
Argobba closelyRelatedTo Amharic
Argobba languageShiftTowards Amharic
Miyazya languageContext Amharic
Omo River languageOfName Amharic
Gamo hasContactLanguage Amharic
Gimira influencedBy Amharic
Sheko neighboringLanguages Amharic
Sheko influencedBy Amharic
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region language Amharic
this entity surface form: Amharic language
Sidamu Afoo hasLoanwordsFrom Amharic
Hadiyya language isUsedAlongside Amharic
this entity surface form: Amharic language
Kemantney usedAlongside Amharic
Zay language hasInfluenceFrom Amharic
this entity surface form: Amharic language
Zay language hasNeighborLanguage Amharic
this entity surface form: Amharic language