Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
National Language
Russia
  
Somalia
  
Second Language
Afganistan
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Africa, Middle East
  
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Yemen
  
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Somali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Hello
  
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
  
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Sidee tahay ?
  
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Habeenka Good
  
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Evening Good
  
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
galab wanaagsan
  
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Subax wanaagsan
  
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Fadlan
  
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
  
sorry
  
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
caraysiiyo
  
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Waan ku jeclahay
  
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
  
iga raali ahow
  
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
  
Northern Somali
  
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Olonets
  
Benaadir
  
Where They Speak
Olonets
  
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
Dialect 3
Novgorod
  
Af-Ashraaf
  
Where They Speak
Novgorod
  
Standard Somali
  
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million
  
6
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
166.00 million
  
8
8.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million
  
7
Not Available
  
Native Name
Русский
  
af Soomaali
  
Alternative Names
Russki
  
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
French Name
russe
  
somali
  
German Name
Russisch
  
Somali
  
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Russians
  
Somalis
  
Origin
1000 AD
  
19th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Cushitic
  
Branch
Eastern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
  
Somali
  
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
  
Somali Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ru
  
so
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
rus
  
som
  
ISO 639 2/B
rus
  
som
  
ISO 639 3
rus
  
som
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
russ1263
  
soma1255
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available