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Additionally, three million emigrants outside of Ethiopia speak Amharic. Most of the Ethiopian Jewish communities in Ethiopia and Israel speak it too. [32] 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]
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. English is the only spoken foreign language and is the language of teaching in secondary schools.
Ongota (also known as Birale, Birayle) is a moribund language of southwest Ethiopia.UNESCO reported in 2012 that out of a total ethnic population of 115, only 12 elderly native speakers remained, the rest of their small village on the west bank of the Weito River having adopted the Tsamai language instead. [1]
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 ...
The Afar language is spoken as a mother tongue by the Afar people in Djibouti, Eritrea, and the Afar Region of Ethiopia. [1] According to Ethnologue, there are 2,600,000 total Afar speakers. Of these, 1,280,000 were recorded in the 2007 Ethiopian census, with 906,000 monolinguals registered in the 1994 census. [1]
The North Omotic (Nomotic) or Ta-Ne Omotic languages, are a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia. Glottolog considers Ta-Ne-Omotic to be an independent language family , whereas older classifications may link it to the Omotic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family , though this affiliation is disputed.
Gumuz (also spelled Gumaz) is a dialect cluster spoken along the border of Ethiopia and Sudan.It has been tentatively classified within the Nilo-Saharan family. Most Ethiopian speakers live in Kamashi Zone and Metekel Zone of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, although a group of 1,000 reportedly live outside the town of Welkite (Unseth 1989).
One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet is divided into several dialects. [2] The latter are spoken in the western Gurage Region: Chaha (Cheha) is spoken in Cheha and is the best studied of these varieties; Mesqan is spoken in Meskan; Ezha (Eza, Izha) is spoken in Ezhana Wolene; Muher is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhana Wolene