1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Indonesia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
East Timor, Indonesia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Yemen
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Malay language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Malay and Dutch 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
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
Terima kasih
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
Habeenka Good
Selamat Malam
3.5 Good Evening
Evening Good
Malam yang baik
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Selamat Sore
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Selamat Pagi
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
caraysiiyo
Selamat tinggal
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Aku cinta kamu
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Sundanese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Indonesia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA38,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,300,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Indonesia, Malaysia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA6,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
13.00 million163.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million23.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA140.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
af Soomaali
Bahasa Melayu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Bahasa Indonesia
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
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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