1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.5 National Language
1.8 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.10 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Middle East
1.12 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Yemen
1.13 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
1.15 Interesting Facts
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
- 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.
1.17 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Afar and Oromo Language
2.3 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.4 Phonology
3.4.1 How Many Vowels
3.4.3 How Many Consonants
1.6 Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
1.7 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
1.8 Hard to Learn
1.8.1 Language Levels
2.3.2 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.2 Thank You
e dupe
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
5.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Sidee tahay ?
5.4 Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Habeenka Good
5.6 Good Evening
5.7 Good Afternoon
5.8 Good Morning
5.9 Please
5.10 Sorry
5.11 Bye
5.12 I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
Waan ku jeclahay
5.13 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
iga raali ahow
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
6.1.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
Gabon, Standard Somali
6.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
6.4 Dialect 2
6.6.0 Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
6.6.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.00NA
700
80000000
6.8 Dialect 3
6.8.1 Where They Speak
6.8.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.00NA
1400
96000000
9.2 Total No. Of Dialects
10 How Many People Speak
10.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million13.00 million
0.13
1200
10.4 Speaking Population
10.6 Native Speakers
28.00 million8.00 million
0.13
873
12.3.4 Second Language Speakers
13.7.1 Native Name
13.8.2 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
13.8.4 French Name
13.8.6 German Name
13.9 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
13.10 Ethnicity
14 History
14.1 Origin
14.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
14.2.1 Subgroup
14.2.2 Branch
14.3 Language Forms
14.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
14.3.2 Standard Forms
14.3.3 Language Position
14.3.5 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
14.4 Scope
15 Code
15.1 ISO 639 1
15.2 ISO 639 2
15.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
15.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
15.3 ISO 639 3
15.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
15.5 Glottocode
15.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
15.7 Types of Language
15.7.1 Language Type
15.7.3 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
15.8.1 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available