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
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Yemen
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Not Available
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 Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
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
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
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
matur nuwun
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
piye kabare?
3.4 Good Night
Habeenka Good
wengi sing apik
3.5 Good Evening
Evening Good
Sugeng sọnten
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Sugeng siang
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Sugeng énjing
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
caraysiiyo
Kepanggih malih benjang
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Kula tresna panjengan
3.12 Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Nuwun séwu
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Pekalongan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Indonesia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Indonesia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Indonesia
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 million82.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million76.00 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
Djawa, Jawa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Somalis
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
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
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
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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