1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Myanmar
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Thai Language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Pali 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
Tangut
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
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
3.2 Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
3.4 Good Night
Habeenka Good
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
3.5 Good Evening
Evening Good
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
3.8 Please
Fadlan
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
3.9 Sorry
sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
3.10 Bye
caraysiiyo
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
3.12 Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Arakanese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA2,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Myanmar
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA440,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA90,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million43.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million33.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
af Soomaali
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan 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 Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Burmese sign language
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
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating