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
  
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
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Africa, Middle East
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Yemen
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
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.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Somali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Hello
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
Sidee tahay ?
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
Habeenka Good
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
Evening Good
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
galab wanaagsan
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
Subax wanaagsan
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Fadlan
  
Sorry
آسف
  
sorry
  
Bye
وداعا
  
caraysiiyo
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Waan ku jeclahay
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
iga raali ahow
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Northern Somali
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Benaadir
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Af-Ashraaf
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Standard Somali
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
8.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
af Soomaali
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
French Name
arabe
  
somali
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Somali
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Somalis
  
Origin
512 CE
  
19th century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Somali
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Somali Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
so
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
som
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
som
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
som
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
soma1255
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available
  
Arabic and Somali Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Arabic and Somali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Somali language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Somali word for "Thank You" is Waad ku mahadsan tahay. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Somali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Somali Difficulty
The Arabic vs Somali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Somali Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Arabic and Somali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Somali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Somali time required is 52 weeks.