🇪🇹 Country

Ethiopia

Ethiopia is home to 116 languages, spoken across East Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.

Capital Addis Ababa

Nationality Ethiopian

Currency Ethiopian Birr (ETB)

Languages 116

97 active 17 endangered 2 extinct

Where the languages are spoken

Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Ethiopia; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.

Active Endangered Extinct fewer / more speakers

Bubbles show a language's approximate centre, not its full extent. Speaker figures are our own estimates where a language lives in one country, and sourced per-country estimates where it crosses borders.

All languages in Ethiopia

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