Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
Indonesia
  
National Language
Somalia
  
Indonesia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Yemen
  
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Malay language
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Alphabets in
Somali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Indonesian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Halo
  
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
Terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
  
Apa kabar?
  
Good Night
Habeenka Good
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Evening Good
  
Malam yang baik
  
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
  
Selamat Sore
  
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
  
Selamat Pagi
  
Please
Fadlan
  
mohon Untuk
  
Sorry
sorry
  
maaf
  
Bye
caraysiiyo
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
  
Aku cinta kamu
  
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
  
Permisi
  
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
  
Sundanese
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
38,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 2
Benaadir
  
Balinese
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,300,000.00
  
17
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
  
Minangkabau
  
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,000,000.00
  
7
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.00 million
  
99+
23.00 million
  
34
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
140.00 million
  
4
Native Name
af Soomaali
  
Bahasa Melayu
  
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
French Name
somali
  
indonésien
  
German Name
Somali
  
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Somalis
  
Indonesians
  
Origin
19th century
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Malay
  
Standard Forms
Somali
  
Indonesian
  
Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
  
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
so
  
id
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
som
  
ind
  
ISO 639 2/B
som
  
ind
  
ISO 639 3
som
  
ind
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
soma1255
  
indo1316
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Somali and Indonesian Speaking population
Somali and Indonesian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Somali and Indonesian languages can be compared. The total count of Somali and Indonesian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Somali language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Indonesian language is 1.16 %. 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 Indonesian on Somali vs Indonesian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Somali and Indonesian Language Codes
Somali and Indonesian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Somali and Indonesian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.