Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
National Language
France
  
Somalia
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Africa, Middle East
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Yemen
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
- 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
Italian Language
  
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
Hello
  
Thank You
Merci
  
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
Sidee tahay ?
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
Habeenka Good
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
Evening Good
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
galab wanaagsan
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
Subax wanaagsan
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Fadlan
  
Sorry
désolé
  
sorry
  
Bye
au revoir
  
caraysiiyo
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
Waan ku jeclahay
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
iga raali ahow
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Northern Somali
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Benaadir
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Af-Ashraaf
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Standard Somali
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
8.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
af Soomaali
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
French Name
français
  
somali
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Somali
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Somalis
  
Origin
9th Century
  
19th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Somali
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Somali Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
so
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
som
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
som
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
som
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
soma1255
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
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