German

Somali

German and Somali

German

Somali

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Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

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National Language

Germany

Somalia

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Africa, Middle East

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Yemen

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography

National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy

Interesting Facts

One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Afar and Oromo Language

Derived From

Albanian Languages

Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2626

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105

0 32

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How Many Consonants

921

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Arabic, Latin, Osmanya

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks52 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

hallo

Hello

Thank You

Danke

Waad ku mahadsan tahay

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?

Sidee tahay ?

Good Night

gute Nacht

Habeenka Good

Good Evening

guten Abend

Evening Good

Good Afternoon

guten Tag

galab wanaagsan

Good Morning

guten Morgen

Subax wanaagsan

Please

bitte

Fadlan

Sorry

Verzeihung

sorry

Bye

Tschüs

caraysiiyo

I Love You

Ich liebe dich

Waan ku jeclahay

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung

iga raali ahow

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German

Northern Somali

Where They Speak

Switzerland

Gabon, Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0016,000,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Swabian German

Benaadir

Where They Speak

Germany

Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu

How Many People Speak

820,000.0016,000,000.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Texas German

Af-Ashraaf

Where They Speak

Texas

Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

6,000.0021.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

283

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million13.00 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.07 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

101.00 million8.00 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million21.00 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

Deutsch

af Soomaali

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco

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

French Name

allemand

somali

German Name

Deutsch

Somali

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

[afsoomaali]

Ethnicity

Germans

Somalis

History

Origin

6th Century AD

19th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

Germanic

Cushitic

Branch

Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Somali

Language Position

983

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed German

Somali Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu

som

ISO 639 2/B

ger

som

ISO 639 3

deu

som

ISO 639 6

deus

som

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397

soma1255

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

German and Somali Alphabets

German and Somali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Somali. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Somali Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn German and Somali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Somali languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Somali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Somali are Most Spoken Languages.

All German and Somali Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Somali dialects. Various dialects of German and Somali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Somali Dialects are spoken in different Somali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Somali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Somali dialects include: Northern Somali , Benaadir. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Somali Speaking population

German and Somali speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Somali languages can be compared. The total count of German and Somali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Somali language is 0.07 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Somali on German vs Somali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Somali Language Codes

German and Somali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Somali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.