Countries
Indonesia
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Indonesia
Somalia
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Yemen
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
- 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
Malay language
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2626
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1921
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
75
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
Hello
Thank You
Terima kasih
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
Selamat Malam
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
Subax wanaagsan
Please
mohon Untuk
Fadlan
Sorry
maaf
sorry
Bye
Selamat tinggal
caraysiiyo
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
Permisi
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Sundanese
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Balinese
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
463
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
1.16 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
23.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
indonésien
somali
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
Somali
Pronunciation
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Indonesians
Somalis
Origin
7th Century
19th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Malay
No early forms
Standard Forms
Indonesian
Somali
Language Position
5683
1
120
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Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
id
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ind
som
ISO 639 2/B
ind
som
ISO 639 3
ind
som
ISO 639 6
ind
som
Glottocode
indo1316
soma1255
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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