Similarities Between Arabic and Amharic

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In today’s episode, we’ll be comparing some of the similarities between two Semitic languages, Arabic and Amharic, with Sora, an Arabic speaker from Iraq, and Betty, an Amharic speaker from Ethiopia challenging each other with a list of words and sentences.
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Arabic and Amharic are the top two most widely spoken Semitic languages. Amharic is the official working language of Ethiopia, an Afroasiatic language and one of the Ethiopian Semitic languages. It is spoken as a first language by the Amharas and as a lingua franca by most people in Ethiopia. Arabic, meanwhile, is a Central Semitic language and has official/national status Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Malta (Maltese Arabic), Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, SADR, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Arabic is also the liturgical language of Islam and has had an influence on many different languages.