1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Fiji, India
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
Asia, Oceania
1.6 Minority Language
Yemen
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Central Hindi Directorate
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Urdu
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit 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
Devanagari
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
3.2 Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
3.4 Good Night
Habeenka Good
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
3.5 Good Evening
Evening Good
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
caraysiiyo
अलविदा (Alavidā)
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
3.12 Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Khariboli
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA22,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Bundelkhand
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million380.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million260.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA120.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
5.5 Ethnicity
Somalis
Hindustani people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
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
Indian Signing System
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-qf
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
Fusional, Synthetic