The Amhara nobles supported the Zagwe prince Lalibela in his power struggle against his brothers which led him to make Amharic Lessana Negus as well as fill the Amhara nobles in the top positions of his Kingdom. The Amharic examples in the sections below use one system that is common among linguists specialising in Ethiopian Semitic languages.Īmharic has been the official working language of Ethiopia, language of the courts, the language of trade and everyday communications and of the military since the late 12th century. There is no universally agreed-upon Romanization of Amharic into Latin script. The graphemes are called fidäl ( ፊደል), which means "script", "alphabet", "letter", or "character". The segmental writing system in which consonant-vowel sequences are written as units is called an abugida ( አቡጊዳ). Īmharic is written left-to-right using a system that grew out of the Geʽez script. Amharic is also the second largest Semitic language in the world (after Arabic). Amharic is the largest, most widely spoken language in Ethiopia, and the second most spoken mother-tongue in Ethiopia (after Oromo). As of 2018, it has over 32,400,000 mother-tongue speakers and more than 25,100,000 second language speakers, making the total number of speakers over 57,500,000. The language serves as the official working language of the Ethiopian federal government, and is also the official or working language of several of Ethiopia's federal regions. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas, and also serves as a lingua franca for all other populations residing in major cities and towns of Ethiopia. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.Īmharic ( / æ m ˈ h ær ɪ k/ or / ɑː m ˈ h ɑːr ɪ k/ (Amharic: አማርኛ), Amarəñña, IPA: ( listen)) is an Ethiopian Semitic language, which is a subgrouping within the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic languages.
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