Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Somalia
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Yemen
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
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 most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
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Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Habeenka Good
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Evening Good
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
Fadlan
  
sila
  
Sorry
sorry
  
maaf
  
Bye
caraysiiyo
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Benaadir
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
175.00 million
  
10
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.00 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
af Soomaali
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
Not Available
  
French Name
somali
  
malais
  
German Name
Somali
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Somalis
  
Not Available
  
Origin
19th century
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Somali
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
so
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
som
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
som
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
som
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
soma1255
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Somali and Malaysian Speaking population
Somali and Malaysian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Somali and Malaysian languages can be compared. The total count of Somali and Malaysian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Somali language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Malaysian 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 Malaysian on Somali vs Malaysian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Somali and Malaysian Language Codes
Somali and Malaysian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Somali and Malaysian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.