Amharic

Afro-Asiatic (Semitic)57 million totalGe'ez (Fidel)

RegionEthiopia

FamilyAfro-Asiatic (Semitic)

Speakers57 million total

ScriptGe'ez (Fidel)

TypeAbugida

About Amharic

The official language of Ethiopia. Uses the Ge'ez script with 231 characters representing consonant-vowel combinations. The second most spoken Semitic language after Arabic. Unique among Semitic languages for writing left-to-right.

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