Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Somalia
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Yemen
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hello
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
Habeenka Good
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
Evening Good
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
Fadlan
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
sorry
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
caraysiiyo
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Benaadir
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.00 million
  
99+
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
af Soomaali
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
  
Not Available
  
French Name
somali
  
chinois
  
German Name
Somali
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Somalis
  
Han
  
Origin
19th century
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Cushitic
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Somali
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
so
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
som
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
som
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
som
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
soma1255
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Somali and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Somali and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Somali and Chinese language. Somali word for "Hello" is Hello or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Somali Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Somali vs Chinese Difficulty
The Somali vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Somali Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Somali and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Somali and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Somali is 52 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.