Native Somali Speakers
You will get to know second language speakers of Somali language as well as native Somali Speakers under how many people speak Somali language. There is an estimate that there are almost 8.00 million native speakers of Somali language. Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers and on other hand some languages have small population of native speakers. There is no estimate available of people speaking Somali as second language. The number of second language speakers mentioned in how many people speak Somali are those whose native language is minority language of country in which they live. They learn the second language because it is official language of the country where they reside.
Native name of Somali
How many people speak Somali serves you with native name of Somali language. The native name of Somali is af Soomaali. Native names are the local names for the languages. The native names of the languages are used by the native speakers of that language. The alternative names of Somali are Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga. The German and French names for Somali language is as follows:
- French Name for Somali: somali.
- German Name for Somali: Somali.
In some applications, instead of using language names they use language codes, check out the language code of Somali on
Somali Language Codes.