1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Indonesia
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Yemen
1.7 Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
- 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
Malay language
Afar and Oromo Language
1.10 Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
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
Terima kasih
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
Selamat Malam
Habeenka Good
3.5 Good Evening
Malam yang baik
Evening Good
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
galab wanaagsan
3.7 Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
Subax wanaagsan
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
caraysiiyo
3.11 I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
Waan ku jeclahay
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Sundanese
Northern Somali
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia
Gabon, Standard Somali
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
Standard Somali
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
163.00 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
23.00 million8.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
140.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
af Soomaali
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian 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
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
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
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available