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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
32
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Somalia
China, Guangdong
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
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Yemen
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
  • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
  • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2628
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
58
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2120
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
510
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks88 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Hello
您好
3.2 Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
你好吗?
3.4 Good Night
Habeenka Good
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
Evening Good
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
早上好
3.8 Please
Fadlan
3.9 Sorry
sorry
遗憾
3.10 Bye
caraysiiyo
再见
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Benaadir
Xiguan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Hong Kong
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Hong Kong
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Hong Kong
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
33
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million60.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
NA16.00 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million52.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NANA
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
af Soomaali
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
somali
Not Available
5.3.5 German Name
Somali
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Somalis
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
19th century
17th century
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Cushitic
Not Available
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
Somali
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
83NA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
so
No data available
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
som
Not Available
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
som
Not Available
7.3 ISO 639 3
som
No data available
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
soma1255
cant1236
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available

Somali and Cantonese Alphabets

Somali and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Somali and Cantonese. In Somali Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Somali and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Somali and Cantonese languages. The Somali phonology consist Somali vowels and Somali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Somali greetings vs Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Somali and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Somali and Cantonese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Somali and Cantonese dialects. Various dialects of Somali and Cantonese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Somali are spoken in different Somali Speaking Countries whereas Cantonese Dialects are spoken in different Cantonese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Somali vs Cantonese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Somali dialects include: Northern Somali, Benaadir. Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou , Xiguan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Somali and Cantonese Speaking population

Somali and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Somali and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Somali and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Somali language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Somali and Cantonese on Somali vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Somali and Cantonese Language Codes

Somali and Cantonese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Somali and Cantonese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.