Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
National Language
East Asia, European Union
  
Somalia
  
Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
  
Africa, Middle East
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Yemen
  
Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto
  
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Somali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
Hello
  
Thank You
Dankon
  
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?
  
Sidee tahay ?
  
Good Night
Bonan nokton
  
Habeenka Good
  
Good Evening
Bonan vesperon
  
Evening Good
  
Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
  
galab wanaagsan
  
Good Morning
Bonan matenon
  
Subax wanaagsan
  
Please
Mi petas
  
Fadlan
  
Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!
  
sorry
  
Bye
Ĝis poste
  
caraysiiyo
  
I Love You
Mi amas vin
  
Waan ku jeclahay
  
Excuse Me
Pardonu!
  
iga raali ahow
  
Dialect 1
Not present
  
Northern Somali
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Benaadir
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Af-Ashraaf
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Standard Somali
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
2.20 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.20 million
  
99+
8.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
Esperanto
  
af Soomaali
  
Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
French Name
espéranto
  
somali
  
German Name
Esperanto
  
Somali
  
Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Somalis
  
Origin
1887
  
19th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Esperanto
  
Somali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signuno
  
Somali Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
eo
  
so
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
epo
  
som
  
ISO 639 2/B
epo
  
som
  
ISO 639 3
epo
  
som
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
espe1235
  
soma1255
  
Linguasphere
51-AAB-da
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Constructed
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Esperanto and Somali Speaking population
Esperanto and Somali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Esperanto and Somali languages can be compared. The total count of Esperanto and Somali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Esperanto language is Not Available 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 Esperanto and Somali on Esperanto vs Somali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Esperanto and Somali Language Codes
Esperanto and Somali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Esperanto and Somali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.