There is no a lanaguage called Ethiopia but there is a country called Ethiopia

From our experience most people think there is a language called  Ethiopia. We know they are referring to Amharic. But what makes them think there is a language called Ethiopia? It is obvious there is a language called French for France, German for Germany, Spanish for Spain, Chinese for China, Japanese for Japan and so on,   but  there is no a language  called   American, Canadian or Saudi Arabian. So where the mix up comes from?  We think it is a lazy way of thinking or assuming each county has a language named after its name.  So we will take this opportunity  to give some lesson for people they think the same patter will  not go for all the time for language vs. county's name.

For example for  countries who uses Spanish as their official language  but they  are called different are  Mexico, Argentina, Peru, and Chili are few best examples. The same goes to Arabic  language  whose name is different form the language are  counties such as Egypt, Qatar or  Emirates are best examples . There will be several examples for this topic but we think for now you get the point. The same goes to Ethiopia. Ethiopia is multilingual and multicultural country. In Ethiopia there are more than 70 kind of languages but there is no a single language called Ethiopian. However, the official language of Ethiopia is Amharic. Some of Ethiopian languages are  Ge'ez, Oromo, Tigirgna, Afar, Guragegna, Harari, Wolayta, Afar,  Sidama, Agew, Somali and Nuer are the few .
For more information about Ethiopian and  African languages please  visit us online at  Ethiotrans.com     

Post by Yebbo Communication Network.