1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Yemen
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Spanish and Galician Languages
1.10 Derived From
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
obrigado
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Como você está?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
boa Tarde
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Eu te amo
3.12 Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
desculpe me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Brazilian Portuguese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Brazil
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA204,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Benaadir
European Portuguese
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Portugal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Daman and Diu
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 million231.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million216.00 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
Português
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
5.5 Ethnicity
Somalis
Portuguese people or portugueses
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
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Medieval Galician
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Portuguese
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
51-AAA-a
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
Not Available