1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia, Europe
1.6 Minority Language
Yemen
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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
Cyrillic
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
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
спасибо(spasibo)
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
Habeenka Good
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
Evening Good
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
Fadlan
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
caraysiiyo
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
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
Olonets
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 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
8.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Russki
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Russian
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
53-AAA-ea
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
Fusional, Synthetic