1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Norway
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
Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Swedish and Danish 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
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
takk
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
hvordan har du det?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
god ettermiddag
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
god morgen
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Jeg Elsker Deg
3.12 Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
unnskyld meg
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Jamtlandic
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Jamtland,Harjedalen
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Sogn
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Hallingmål-Valdris
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Hallingdal, Valdres
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 million5.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million5.00 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
Norsk
5.3.4 French Name
somali
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Northern (Scandinavian)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
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
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
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