Sage-Tips

What two languages can understand each other?

List of mutually intelligible languages

• Afrikaans: Dutch (partially)
• Azerbaijani: Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Turkish and Urum (partially and asymmetrically)
• Belarusian: Russian and Ukrainian (both partially)
• Bulgarian: Macedonian (significantly)
• Cebuano: Hiligaynon (significantly)

Do Somalis speak Amharic?

However, Amharic is spoken in the Somali region in Ethiopia. people in that region speak both languages so specifically there since the people can speak both languages they understand each other.

Is Amharic and Somali similar?

Both languages are apart of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Amharic is a Ethio-Semitic language though, related to Arabic, Assyrian, & Hebrew. Somali is a Cushitic language, related to Beja, Oromo, & Afar. The closest language similar to Somali is Rendille spoken by the Rendille people in neighbouring Kenya.

What percentage of Ethiopians speak Amharic?

29\%
Though it is the official language of Ethiopia, only about 29\% of the population speak Amharic, compared to the approximately 34\% who speak Oromo. Amharic is a Semitic language, and comes in right behind Arabic as the most spoken Semitic language.

What percentage of Ethiopians speaks English?

Ethiopia’s 78.25 million residents collectively speak up to 90 languages, and English is only spoken by 0.22\% of them (171,712 people). Top spoken languages are Afro-Asiatic languages like Oromo (33.8\% of the population), Amharis (29.3\%), Somali (6.25\%), Tigrinya (5.86\%) and Sidamo (4.04\%).

How many Cushitic languages are there?

There are about thirty Cushitic languages spoken by close to 55 million people. They are divided into North, Central and East groups. East Cushitic is by far the largest both in terms of the number of languages and of speakers. Most Cushitic languages are comparatively small, with tens of thousands of speakers or less each.

Which Cushitic language has the greatest number of speakers in Africa?

The Cushitic languages with the greatest number of total speakers are Oromo (41 million), Somali (16.2 million), Beja (3.2 million), Sidamo (3 million), and Afar (2 million).

Is the South Cushitic a part of the Lowland East Cushites?

Hetzron (1980) and Ehret (1995) have suggested that the South Cushitic languages (Rift languages) are a part of Lowland East Cushitic, the only one of the six groups with much internal diversity. Cushitic was formerly seen as also including the Omotic languages, then called West Cushitic. However, this view has been abandoned.

What is the accent in a Cushitic language?

Pitch accent is found most Cushitic languages, and plays a prominent role in morphology and syntax. Nouns are inflected for case and number. All nouns are further grouped into two gender categories, masculine gender and feminine gender.