About Somali Language | Somali | Alphabets in Somali

Countries

Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 12 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Somalia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa, Middle East

Minority Language

Yemen

Regulated By

National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy

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.

Similar To

Afar and Oromo Language

Derived From

Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 8 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 11 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Arabic, Latin, Osmanya

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 4 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

52 weeks

Rank: 18 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Thank You

Waad ku mahadsan tahay

How Are You?

Sidee tahay ?

Good Night

Habeenka Good

Good Evening

Evening Good

Good Afternoon

galab wanaagsan

Good Morning

Subax wanaagsan

Please

Fadlan

Sorry

sorry

Bye

caraysiiyo

I Love You

Waan ku jeclahay

Excuse Me

iga raali ahow

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Somali

Where They Speak

Gabon, Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.00

Rank: 32 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Benaadir

Where They Speak

Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.00

Rank: 30 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Af-Ashraaf

Where They Speak

Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

21.00

Rank: 83 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 3 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

13.00 million

Rank: 49 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.07 %

Rank: 58 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

8.00 million

Rank: 53 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

21.00 million

Rank: 29 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

af Soomaali

Alternative Names

Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga

French Name

somali

German Name

Somali

Pronunciation

[afsoomaali]

Ethnicity

Somalis

History

Origin

19th century

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Cushitic

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Somali

Language Position

Rank: 65 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Somali Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

som

ISO 639 2/B

som

ISO 639 3

som

ISO 639 6

som

Glottocode

soma1255

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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.