Language code: 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.

Code

am

Name

Official

Amharic

Native

አማርኛ

Family
Semitic
Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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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.

Language presence globally

Speakers

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Amharic speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

am-ET Amharic (Ethiopia)

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