Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Somalia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa, Middle East
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Yemen
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish 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
Finnish
  
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Somali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
Hello
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
Sidee tahay ?
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
Habeenka Good
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
Evening Good
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
galab wanaagsan
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
Subax wanaagsan
  
Please
Palun
  
Fadlan
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
sorry
  
Bye
Head aega
  
caraysiiyo
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
Waan ku jeclahay
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
iga raali ahow
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Northern Somali
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Benaadir
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Af-Ashraaf
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Standard Somali
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
8.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
eesti keel
  
af Soomaali
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
French Name
estonien
  
somali
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Somali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Somalis
  
Origin
13th century
  
19th century
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Somali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Somali Sign Language
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
so
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
som
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
som
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
som
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
soma1255
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Estonian and Somali Speaking population
Estonian and Somali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and Somali languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and Somali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian 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 Estonian and Somali on Estonian vs Somali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Estonian and Somali Language Codes
Estonian and Somali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Estonian and Somali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.