Countries
Indonesia
  
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Somalia
  
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Middle East
  
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Yemen
  
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
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.
  
Similar To
Malay language
  
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Somali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
Hello
  
Thank You
Terima kasih
  
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
  
Sidee tahay ?
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
Habeenka Good
  
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
  
Evening Good
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
  
galab wanaagsan
  
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
  
Subax wanaagsan
  
Please
mohon Untuk
  
Fadlan
  
Sorry
maaf
  
sorry
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
caraysiiyo
  
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
  
Waan ku jeclahay
  
Excuse Me
Permisi
  
iga raali ahow
  
Dialect 1
Sundanese
  
Northern Somali
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Balinese
  
Benaadir
  
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
  
Af-Ashraaf
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Standard Somali
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
8.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million
  
4
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
  
af Soomaali
  
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
French Name
indonésien
  
somali
  
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Somali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Indonesians
  
Somalis
  
Origin
7th Century
  
19th century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Malay
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Indonesian
  
Somali
  
Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Somali Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
id
  
so
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ind
  
som
  
ISO 639 2/B
ind
  
som
  
ISO 639 3
ind
  
som
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
indo1316
  
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
  
Indonesian and Somali Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Indonesian and Somali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Indonesian and Somali language. Indonesian word for "Hello" is Halo or Somali word for "Thank You" is Waad ku mahadsan tahay. Find more of such common Indonesian Greetings and Somali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Indonesian vs Somali Difficulty
The Indonesian vs Somali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Indonesian Alphabets and Somali Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Indonesian and Somali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Indonesian and Somali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Indonesian is 36 weeks while to learn Somali time required is 52 weeks.