Countries
India
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
India
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
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Yemen
Regulated By
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National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
- 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
Bengali Language
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4726
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3121
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Hello
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Subax wanaagsan
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Fadlan
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
sorry
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
caraysiiyo
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kharwa
Benaadir
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
-
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
goudjrati
somali
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Somali
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Somalis
Origin
15
19th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Cushitic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Somali
Language Position
2383
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
gu
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
som
ISO 639 2/B
guj
som
ISO 639 3
guj
som
ISO 639 6
guj
som
Glottocode
guja1252
soma1255
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-