1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Somalia
Albanian diaspora, Southeastern Europe
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Yemen
Italian Repubilc, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Romania
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Academy of Sciences of Albania, Tirana
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.
- Albanian Language has adopted words from Latin, Greek, Turkish, Italian and Slavic languages.
- 74% Albanian people are atheist, they never go to church or mosque.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Romanian
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Ju faleminderit
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
Habeenka Good
natën e mirë
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
mirëmengjes
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
unë e dua ju
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Gheg Albanian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Albania, Greece, Kosovo, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA100,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million7.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million3.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
af Soomaali
shqip / gjuha shqipe
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European 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
Old Albanian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL, in Albanian Gjuha Shenjave e Shqipe)
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
55-AAA-aaa
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology