1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
China
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Yemen
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Uzbek Language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Gokturk Language
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
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
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
rakhmat
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
3.4 Good Night
Habeenka Good
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
3.5 Good Evening
Evening Good
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
sizni yahshi kOrman
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million10.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million8.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
af Soomaali
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Turkic 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
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Not Available
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available