1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Georgia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Somalia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
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
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Yemen
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Anatolian Languages
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, Georgian script
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
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
3.2 Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
3.4 Good Night
Habeenka Good
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
3.5 Good Evening
Evening Good
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
3.8 Please
Fadlan
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
caraysiiyo
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
3.12 Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Judaeo-Georgian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Kartli
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 million4.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million4.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Kartvelian 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 Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
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
Agglutinative, Synthetic