am
Technical information about ISO 639 language code am
The table below provides technical details for the Amharic language, designated by the am
code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Amharic belongs to the Afro-Asiatic family of languages, more precisely to the Semitic subgroup. It is officially used in Ethiopia. It is estimated that there are more than 35 million speakers worldwide.
Speakers
35M
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Amharic speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
am-ET
– Amharic (Ethiopia)
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