Ethiopia Languages

Description
There are 90 individual languages spoken in Ethiopia. Most people in the country speak Afroasiatic languages of the...


 * Cushitic Branch
 * Oromo language - spoken by the Oromo People. One of the five official languages of Ethiopia.
 * Somali language - spoken by the Somalis. One of the five official languages of Ethiopia.
 * Semitic Branch
 * Amharic Language - spoken by the Amhara People. One of the five official languages of Ethiopia.
 * Tigrinya language - spoken by the Tigrayans. One of the five official languages of Ethiopia.

Together, these four groups make up about three-quarters of Ethiopia's population.

Other Afroasiatic lanquauges with a significant number of speakers include...
 * Sidama language
 * Afar language - spoken by the Afar People. One of the five official languages of Ethiopia.
 * Hadiyya language
 * Agaw language
 * Gurage languages
 * Harari languages
 * Siltʼe
 * Argobba

English is the most spoken foreign language and is used in schools and federal laws.

Word List(s)

 * Phrases in Oromo - MyLanguages.org
 * Useful Phrases in Somali - Omniglot
 * Amharic Phrases - iLanguages
 * Amharic Phrases - Learn101
 * Amharic Phrase list - WikiTravel
 * Useful Phrases in Tigrinya - Omniglot

Alphabet and Pronunciation
Alphabet
 * Amharic Alphabet - Omniglot
 * Somali/Osmanya Alphabet - Omniglot
 * Ge'ez Script for Oromo - Omniglot
 * Arabic Script for Oromo - Omniglot
 * Latin Alphabet for Oromo - Omniglot
 * The Tigrinya script - Omniglot

Pronunciation
 * Oromo Pronunciation Dictionary - Forvo
 * Somali Pronunciation Dictionary - Forvo
 * Amharic Pronunciation Dictionary - Forvo
 * Tigrinya Pronunciation Dictionary - Forvo

Language Aids and Dictionaries
Dictionaries'
 * Muudee, Mahdi Hamid. Hamid Muudee's Oromo dictionary : English-Oromo. Atlanta, GA: Sagalee Oromoo Pub. Co., 1995. Available at: WorldCat.
 * Hashi, Abdirahman A. Fiqi's Somali English dictionary. Jigjiga, Ethiopia: Fiqi Educational Materials, 1998. Available at: WorldCat.
 * Leslau, Wolf. Concise Amharic dictionary : Amharic-English, English-Amharic. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Available at: WorldCat.
 * Asfeha, Amanuel. Mesob English Tigrinya dictionary. n.p.: n.p., 2015. Available at: WorldCat.

Online Dictionaries
 * Dictionary English - Oromo - Glosbe
 * Somali Online Dictionary - Glosbe
 * Somali Online Dictionary - Lexilogos
 * English - Amharic Online Dictionary - AmharicPro
 * Amharic Online Dictionary - Abyssinica
 * Dictionary English - Tigrinya - Glosbe

Language Aids
 * Oromo Grammar - Learn101
 * Somali Grammar - Learn101
 * Somali Grammar - Polymath
 * Amharic Grammar - Learn101
 * Amharic Punctuation - Omniglot
 * Tigrinya Grammar - LinguaShop

Additional Resources

 * Oromo Language Overview - MustGo travel
 * Somali Language Overview - MustGo travel
 * Amharic Language Overview - MustGo travel
 * Tigrinya Language Overview - MustGo travel