1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Meghalaya
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Bangladesh, India
Somalia
1.4 Second Language
Not Available
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
- 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
Bengali, 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
Khublei
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
3.3 How Are You?
Kumno phi long?
Sidee tahay ?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
babha janmiet
Evening Good
3.6 Good Afternoon
babha noph-phai-sngi
galab wanaagsan
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
ieit ieit
Waan ku jeclahay
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Gabon, Standard Somali
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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?
0.84 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.84 million8.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
af Soomaali
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
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
Not Available
19th century
6.2 Language Family
Austroasiatic 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
Not Available
Not Available