Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Somalia
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Yemen
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Habeenka Good
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Evening Good
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Fadlan
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
caraysiiyo
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Benaadir
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.00 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
af Soomaali
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
Russki
  
French Name
somali
  
russe
  
German Name
Somali
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Somalis
  
Russians
  
Origin
19th century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Somali
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
so
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
som
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
som
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
som
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
soma1255
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic