Amharic

Summary

Amharic is a natural language^[1]. Amharic draws 5,131 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #91 of 734).^[2]

Key Facts

• Amharic is in the country of Ethiopia^[3].
• Amharic is in the country of Eritrea^[4].
• Amharic is in the country of Somalia^[5].
• Amharic is in the country of Sudan^[6].
• Amharic is in the country of Israel^[7].
• Amharic's instance of is recorded as natural language^[8].
• Amharic's instance of is recorded as modern language^[9].
• Amharic is a type of Ethiopian Semitic^[10].
• Amharic is a type of Semitic^[11].
• Amharic's writing system is recorded as Geʽez script^[12].
• Amharic's Commons category is recorded as Amharic language^[13].
• Amharic's Wikimedia language code is recorded as am^[14].
• Amharic's coordinate location is recorded as {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': 12, 'longitude': 38, 'precision': 1}^[15].
• Amharic's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Amharic language^[16].
• Amharic's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+21900000'}^[17].
• Amharic's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+25000000'}^[18].
• Amharic's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[19].
• Amharic's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedic Lexicon^[20].
• Amharic's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1^[21].
• Amharic's topic has template is recorded as Q36457667^[22].
• Amharic's native label is recorded as አማርኛ^[23].
• Amharic's UNESCO language status is recorded as 1 safe^[24].
• Amharic's indigenous to is recorded as Addis Ababa^[25].
• Amharic's indigenous to is recorded as Amhara Region^[26].
• Amharic's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/AMH^[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include natural language^[8] and modern language^[9]. Recorded subclass of include Ethiopian Semitic^[10] and Semitic^[11].

Why It Matters

Amharic draws 5,131 Wikipedia views per month (natural_language category, ranking #91 of 734).^[2] Amharic has Wikipedia articles in 123 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28]