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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
233
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Somalia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Africa, Middle East
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Yemen
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  • Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
  • One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
1.9 Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
Afar and Oromo Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2826
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
85
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2821
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
45
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks52 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
مرحبا
Hello
3.2 Thank You
شكرا
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
3.3 How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
Sidee tahay ?
3.4 Good Night
تصبح على خير
Habeenka Good
3.5 Good Evening
مساء الخير
Evening Good
3.6 Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
galab wanaagsan
3.7 Good Morning
صباح الخير
Subax wanaagsan
3.8 Please
من فضلك
Fadlan
3.9 Sorry
آسف
sorry
3.10 Bye
وداعا
caraysiiyo
3.11 I Love You
أحبك
Waan ku jeclahay
3.12 Excuse Me
اعذرني
iga raali ahow
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Northern Somali
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Gabon, Standard Somali
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Sudanese
Benaadir
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Sudan
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00NA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Levantine
Af-Ashraaf
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Standard Somali
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00NA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
263
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
452.00 million13.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
4.43 %NA
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
206.00 million8.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
246.00 millionNA
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
af Soomaali
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
5.3.4 French Name
arabe
somali
5.3.5 German Name
Arabisch
Somali
5.4 Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Arabs
Somalis
6 History
6.1 Origin
512 CE
19th century
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Semitic
Cushitic
6.2.2 Branch
North Arabic
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Somali
6.3.3 Language Position
2583
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
Somali Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ar
so
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
ara
som
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
ara
som
7.3 ISO 639 3
ara
som
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
arab1395
soma1255
7.6 Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available

Arabic and Somali Alphabets

Arabic and Somali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Arabic and Somali. In Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters while in Somali Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Arabic and Somali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Arabic and Somali languages. The Arabic phonology consist Arabic vowels and Arabic consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Arabic greetings vs Somali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Arabic and Somali are Most Spoken Languages.

All Arabic and Somali Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Arabic and Somali dialects. Various dialects of Arabic and Somali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Arabic are spoken in different Arabic Speaking Countries whereas Somali Dialects are spoken in different Somali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Arabic vs Somali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi, Sudanese. Somali dialects include: Northern Somali , Benaadir. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Arabic and Somali Speaking population

Arabic and Somali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Somali languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Somali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Somali language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Arabic and Somali on Arabic vs Somali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Arabic and Somali Language Codes

Arabic and Somali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Somali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.