1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Pakistan
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
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Yemen
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
- 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
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
3.3 How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Sidee tahay ?
3.4 Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
Habeenka Good
3.5 Good Evening
Not Available
Evening Good
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
galab wanaagsan
3.7 Good Morning
Hach ch'i
Subax wanaagsan
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Waan ku jeclahay
3.12 Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
iga raali ahow
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kashtawari
Northern Somali
4.1.1 Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
Gabon, Standard Somali
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.60 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.42 million8.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
af Soomaali
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
Somalis
6 History
6.1 Origin
12th Century
19th century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
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
Indian Signing System (ISS)
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-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available