What is Ethiopian Semitic?
Q: What is Ethiopian Semitic?
A: Ethiopian Semitic is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan.
Q: What are some of the Ethiopian Semitic languages?
A: Amharic is the most used Ethiopian Semitic language, and Tigrinya is the most spoken language in Eritrea. Ge'ez is a religious language used in the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Churches.
Q: What is the official working language of Ethiopia?
A: Amharic is the official working language of Ethiopia.
Q: How many speakers does Amharic have?
A: Amharic has about 62 million speakers, including second language speakers.
Q: What is the subject-object-verb (SOV) word order?
A: The modern Ethiopian Semitic languages all have the subject-object-verb (SOV) word order.
Q: What is the verb-subject-object (VSO) order?
A: Ge'ez, a religious language used in the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Churches, had the verb-subject-object (VSO) order.
Q: How old is the writing in Ge'ez language?
A: The writing in Ge'ez language is as old as the first century AD.
