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TTN translates from German, French, English and Italian into Amharic – and vice versa. Specialised translators who are native speakers, quality assurance according to ISO 17100, a quote in three clicks.
About Amharic
- Native name
- አማርኛ
- ISO code
- ISO 639-1: am · ISO 639-3: amh
- Language family
- Afro-Asiatic › Semitic
- Script
- Ethiopic (Ge'ez)
- Native speakers
- 34 million
- Second-language speakers
- 25 million
- Official language in
- Ethiopia
Official language
Also spoken
Amharic is the working language of the Ethiopian federal government and the second most spoken Semitic language after Arabic. It is written in the Ge'ez script, an abugida in which each character stands for a consonant-vowel syllable. Source: Wikipedia / Ethnologue, 2025
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