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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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3
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1.3 National Language
Somalia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
1.6 Minority Language
Yemen
1.7 Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
1.9 Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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52 weeks
Rank: 12 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Hello
3.2 Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
3.3 How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
3.4 Good Night
Habeenka Good
3.5 Good Evening
Evening Good
3.6 Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
3.7 Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
3.8 Please
Fadlan
3.9 Sorry
sorry
3.10 Bye
caraysiiyo
3.11 I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
3.12 Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Somali
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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4.2 Dialect 2
Benaadir
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
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4.3 Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Standard Somali
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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13.00 million
Rank: 49 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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5.3 Native Speakers
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8.00 million
Rank: 53 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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5.3.2 Native Name
af Soomaali
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
5.3.4 French Name
somali
5.3.5 German Name
Somali
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Somalis
6 History
6.1 Origin
19th century
6.2 Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Cushitic
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Somali
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
so
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
som
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
som
7.3 ISO 639 3
som
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
soma1255
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available

Know Alphabets in Somali

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Somali Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Somali Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Somali. Somali phonology gives Somali vowels and Somali consonants. There are 5 vowels and 21 consonants in Somali language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Somali is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Somali language is given in detail in this section.

All Somali countries

Want to explore all Somali countries? About Somali language serves you with all Somali Speaking Countries. Countries that use Somali as official language are called as Somali countries.

  • Countries that use Somali as their National Language are: Somalia.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Somali as second language are: Somali is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Somali greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Somali Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Somali language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Somali language.Learn Somali greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Hello
  • Thank you: Waad ku mahadsan tahay
  • Good Morning: Subax wanaagsan
  • Good Evening: Evening Good
  • Good Afternoon: galab wanaagsan

All Somali Language Codes

Get to know all Somali language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Somali Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.