1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Haiti
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
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
Central America, North America
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
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.
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
French Language
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
Not Available
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
Mèsi
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Kijan ou yé?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Bon apre-midi
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Bon apre-midi
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Mwen renmen w
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Northern Haitian Creole
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Cap-Haitien
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Benaadir
Central Haitian Creole
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Port-au-Prince
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Southern Haitian Creole
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 million9.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million9.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
af Soomaali
Kreyòl ayisyen
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
5.3.4 French Name
somali
haïtien; créole haïtien
5.3.5 German Name
Somali
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
19th century
17th Century
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
No early forms
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
51-AAC-cb
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
Not Available