Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Hawaii
Yemen
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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
Chinese Language
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
-
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2826
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2021
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
105
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Hello
Thank You
谢谢
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
你好吗？
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
晚安
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
晚上好
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
下午好
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
早上好
Subax wanaagsan
Please
请
Fadlan
Sorry
遗憾
sorry
Bye
再见
caraysiiyo
I Love You
我爱你
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
原谅我
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
cantonais
somali
German Name
Kantonesisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Somalis
Origin
17th century
19th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Somali
Language Position
183
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Somali Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
som
ISO 639 2/B
yue
som
ISO 639 3
No data available
som
ISO 639 6
yue
som
Glottocode
cant1236
soma1255
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-