Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Somalia
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Yemen
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Somali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Habeenka Good
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Evening Good
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Fadlan
  
bitte
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
caraysiiyo
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Benaadir
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.00 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
af Soomaali
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
somali
  
allemand
  
German Name
Somali
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Somalis
  
Germans
  
Origin
19th century
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Somali
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
so
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
som
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
som
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
som
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
soma1255
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic