1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Nigeria
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Middle East
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Afar and Oromo Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
dalụ
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
3.3 How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Sidee tahay ?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
galab wanaagsan
3.7 Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Subax wanaagsan
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Waan ku jeclahay
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
Gabon, Standard Somali
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Standard Somali
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million8.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ibo
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
30th Century BC
19th century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Somali Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available