1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Somalia
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Africa, Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Yemen
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
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.
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Amharic and Hebrew
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
Arabic
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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
شكرا
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
Habeenka Good
تصبح على خير
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
مساء الخير
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
صباح الخير
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Sudan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA17,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Cyprus, Levant
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA21,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million452.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million206.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA246.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
af Soomaali
(al arabiya) العربية
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
North Arabic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Somali
Modern Standard Arabic
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Arabic
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
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
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic