It was a day before winter break and my 3rd period asked me about the different languages that we spoke in Ethiopia and I was really curious to google it and find out. The results that I received were unexpected and shocking to me. There are 88 individual languages of Ethiopia. I would most likely have guessed less then the actual number but I found out a new thing about my own country and its languages.
But the most one that is been spoken by many is Amharic which is what I grew up speaking and most of the people that grew up around the Capital city. The most widely spoken language in Ethiopia is Oromo, which around 33.8 percent of the population speaks. With the 1994 Ethiopian census indicating that some 77 tongues were spoken locally. Most of these languages belong to the Afro-asiatic family.
I had no idea that one country could have so many different languages. I guess it suggests a very long and complicated history.
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wow that's a lot of languages, i would've like to know the reason/history behind it. i assume they must be similar since 77 of them were spoken locally. i just wonder if the local signs like street/building signs are replicated in the other languages too?
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