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Amharic

الأمهرية

Ethiopia's official language; Abyssinian Muslims wrote in Arabic and Amharic, in one of Islam's earliest communities.

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The official language of Ethiopia. The Muslims of Abyssinia have written works in Arabic and Amharic, and there are the oldest Muslim communities there. 1

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Arabic· Bengali· Bosnian· Hausa· Indonesian· Kurdish· Malay· Pashto

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islam.museum contributors. “Amharic”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/language/amharic/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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Qur'an, hadith, poetry, and the languages and scripts of Muslim peoples. Related

Arabic

The language of the Qur'an and prayer; spread from Arabia with the Islamic conquests to become the language of scholarship, religion and letters from Andalusia to Persia.