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January 2017
Please do not add or change content without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. Sjö (talk) 17:35, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

It was cited correctly but the was an error with the format "  " within the cited text. I have already fixed it but i didn't know how to let wiki know it was fixed. Abel Mesganaw (talk) 18:07, 12 January 2017 (UTC)


 * The problem wasn't with the format, but that the figures for Amharic speakers that you added were unsourced and in some cases were contradicted by the sources in the article. Please make sure that any facts that you add or change is supported by a source. Sjö (talk) 20:24, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply, i was talking about somthing else. You are absolutely correct that Amharic as a mother tongue is cited and as a second language it wasn't. I had found a source from the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia http://www.csa.gov.et/ but the table is no longer available and only the part B of Documents are uploaded. Amharic is the most widely spoken language in Ethiopia. Its thought in all the regions schools and its fare to concluded the figures of Amharic speakers is more than 29 % that of the native speakers. This is a Journal paper i would like to cite, if you have time could you please have a look and see the percentage of the population that speaks Amharic. http://www.academia.edu/5514187/Amharic_as_lingua_franca_in_Ethiopia Abel Mesganaw (talk) 05:26, 13 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Dear Abel, the article by Ronnie Meyer is indeed a good source that you can quote on any claim that is made in the article. But please note that this article makes no claim on total speaker numbers of Amharic in Ethiopia, or of percentages, so it would not support the changes you have attempted to make in the past weeks. Please also note that the population graph and the speaker numbers given in the article are about mother tongue use of the language. You cannot then include the the second language users in the population figures, as this distorts the whole picture. Please make sure before any change that the information you provide has a good place in the spot where you want to provide it. I understand that your intention is to state that Amharic is a very important language in the Ethiopian context, and I agree with you that the article did not state that strongly enough. Therefore I have made a change to that effect at a place where this was appropriate. Inflating numbers without source will always get you reverted immediately. Landroving Linguist (talk) 06:08, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

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