Ethiopian and Libyan language
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Libya |
In Ethiopia the national language is Amharic, which comes from the Afro-Asiatic and Semitic family tree (ethonologue.com). The number of individual languages in Ethiopia is 89. 87 of these are living and 2 are extinct. Some of the immigrant languages that have diffused to Ethiopia by migration are Kunama, Maay, Sudanese, and spoken Arabic. (aboutworldlanguages.com)
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In Libya the national language is spoken Arabic. There are many, many, immigrant languages spoken in Libya, due to the influx of refugees. Some of the most interesting languages spoken there are Bulgarian and Mandarin Chinease (Ethnologue). It is actually closly related to Amharic and comes from the same language family, Semitic.
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In the picture, you can see that the Ethiopian language is from the southern branch of the Semitic family in the afro-asiatic group. The libyan language is from eastern berber and arabic.