1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
India, Pakistan
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Hindi and Urdu Languages
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
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
3.4 Good Night
Habeenka Good
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
3.5 Good Evening
Evening Good
Not Available
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Hach t'ochoktiya
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Hach ch'i
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
3.12 Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Kashtawari
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Pogul and Paristan valleys
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 million5.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million5.42 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
af Soomaali
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Somalis
Kashmiris or koshur
6 History
6.1 Origin
19th century
12th Century
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 (ISS)
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available