Countries
Indonesia
  
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Somalia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Middle East
  
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
  
Yemen
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
  
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
  
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Javanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Somali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
  
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
Hello
  
Thank You
matur nuwun
  
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
How Are You?
piye kabare?
  
Sidee tahay ?
  
Good Night
wengi sing apik
  
Habeenka Good
  
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
  
Evening Good
  
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
  
galab wanaagsan
  
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
  
Subax wanaagsan
  
Please
Not Available
  
Fadlan
  
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
  
sorry
  
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
  
caraysiiyo
  
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
  
Waan ku jeclahay
  
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
  
iga raali ahow
  
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
  
Northern Somali
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
Dialect 2
Cirebon
  
Benaadir
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
Dialect 3
Arekan
  
Af-Ashraaf
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Standard Somali
  
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million
  
19
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
8.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
basa Jawa
  
af Soomaali
  
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
  
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
French Name
javanais
  
somali
  
German Name
Javanisch
  
Somali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
  
Somalis
  
Origin
450 AD
  
19th century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Javanese
  
Somali
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Somali Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
jv
  
so
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
jav
  
som
  
ISO 639 2/B
jav
  
som
  
ISO 639 3
jav
  
som
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
java1253
  
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
  
Javanese 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 Javanese and Somali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Javanese and Somali language. Javanese word for "Hello" is Halo or Somali word for "Thank You" is Waad ku mahadsan tahay. Find more of such common Javanese Greetings and Somali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Javanese vs Somali Difficulty
The Javanese vs Somali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Javanese 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 Javanese and Somali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Javanese and Somali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Javanese is 36 weeks while to learn Somali time required is 52 weeks.