1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Bulgaria, European Union
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
Africa, Middle East
Africa, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Yemen
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Institute for the Bulgarian language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Macedonian language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
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
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Cyrillic
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
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
3.2 Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Как си? (Kak si?)
3.4 Good Night
Habeenka Good
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
3.5 Good Evening
Evening Good
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
3.10 Bye
caraysiiyo
Довиждане (Doviždane)
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Обичам те (Običam te)
3.12 Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Bulgaria
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Bulgaria
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million7.80 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million7.80 million
0.13
873
1.2.1 Second Language Speakers
1.8.1 Native Name
af Soomaali
български (bãlgarski)
1.9.1 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Balgarski
1.10.1 French Name
1.10.2 German Name
2.3 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
2.4 Ethnicity
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
3.2.2 Branch
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
3.3.2 Standard Forms
Somali
Standard Bulgarian
3.3.3 Language Position
3.4.2 Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
3.5 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-hb
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available