1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India
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
Govenment of Goa
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- 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
Marathi
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
Devanagari
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, 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
Dev Borem Korum
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
Habeenka Good
3.5 Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Evening Good
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
galab wanaagsan
3.7 Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
Subax wanaagsan
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
Waan ku jeclahay
3.12 Excuse Me
upkar korxi
iga raali ahow
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Goa
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?
7.40 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.40 million8.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European 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
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Somali Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
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