Country Info

Ethiopia Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 41,086,500 people (39% of Ethiopia) that can read or write at least one language.

8 Writing Systems used in Ethiopia

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
45,300,500
people

Amharic (Ethiopic)

am-ethi
language code
34,765,500
people

Oromo (Latin)

om-latn
language code
33,712,000
people

Somali (Latin)

so-latn
language code
6,321,000
people

Tigrinya (Ethiopic)

ti-ethi
language code
6,321,000
people

Sidamo (Latin)

sid-latn
language code
3,687,250
people

Wolaytta (Ethiopic)

wal-ethi
language code
1,896,299
people

Afar (Latin)

aa-latn
language code
1,474,899
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR