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
Not Available
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Afar and Oromo Language
1.10 Derived From
Prakrit 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
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Hello
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
3.3 How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Sidee tahay ?
3.4 Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Habeenka Good
3.5 Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
Evening Good
3.6 Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
galab wanaagsan
3.7 Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Subax wanaagsan
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
sorry
3.10 Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
caraysiiyo
3.11 I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Waan ku jeclahay
3.12 Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
iga raali ahow
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Not present
Northern Somali
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?
14.10 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
14.10 million8.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
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
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Not Available
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
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
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
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology