1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
1.8 Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
- 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
Indonesian Language
Afar and Oromo Language
1.10 Derived From
Tamil 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
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
terima kasih
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
3.3 How Are You?
Apa khabar?
Sidee tahay ?
3.4 Good Night
Selamat Malam
Habeenka Good
3.5 Good Evening
Selamat Petang
Evening Good
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
galab wanaagsan
3.7 Good Morning
Selamat pagi
Subax wanaagsan
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
caraysiiyo
3.11 I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
Waan ku jeclahay
3.12 Excuse Me
Maafkan saya
iga raali ahow
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Gabon, Standard Somali
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Indonesia
Standard Somali
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
175.00 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million8.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Bahasa melayu
af Soomaali
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian 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
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Somali
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
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
Agglutinative
Not Available