Countries
Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
33
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Yemen
Regulated By
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National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
- 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.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Caucasian languages
Arabic Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6226
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
25
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
6021
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Hello
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Subax wanaagsan
Please
амритана
Fadlan
Sorry
Амарахь
sorry
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
caraysiiyo
I Love You
-
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
iga raali ahow
Dialects
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
106,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
106,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Sadz
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Turkey
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
106,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.13 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
abkhaze
somali
German Name
Abchasisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Somalis
History
Origin
c. 1650
19th century
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Somali
Language Position
2883
1
120
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Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ab
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
som
ISO 639 2/B
abk
som
ISO 639 3
abk
som
ISO 639 6
abks
som
Glottocode
abkh1244
soma1255
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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