1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Canada
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Yemen
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
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.
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Italian Language
1.10 Derived From
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
Latin
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
3.2 Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
Merci
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Comment allez-vous?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
bon Après-Midi
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Je t'aime
3.12 Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Excuse Moi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Quebec French
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA6,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Northeast France, Switzerland
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million163.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million76.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Français
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old French, Middle French and French
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAA-i
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic