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Countries

Countries

Japan
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia

Total No. Of Countries

13
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Somalia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Africa, Middle East

Minority Language

Palau
Yemen

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy

Interesting Facts

  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  • 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

Korean Language
Afar and Oromo Language

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9926
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1421
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

55
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks52 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Hello

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Sidee tahay ?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Habeenka Good

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Evening Good

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
galab wanaagsan

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
Subax wanaagsan

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Fadlan

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
sorry

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
caraysiiyo

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Waan ku jeclahay

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
iga raali ahow

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Northern Somali

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Gabon, Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Benaadir

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Af-Ashraaf

Where They Speak

kansai
Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0021.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

313
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million8.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million21.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
af Soomaali

Alternative Names

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

French Name

japonais
somali

German Name

Japanisch
Somali

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[afsoomaali]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Somalis

History

Origin

1185
19th century

Language Family

Japonic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family

Subgroup

-
Cushitic

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Japanese
Somali

Language Position

883
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Somali Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
so

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
som

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
som

ISO 639 3

jpn
som

ISO 639 6

jpn
som

Glottocode

nucl1643
soma1255

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Japanese and Somali Alphabets

Japanese and Somali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Somali. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Somali Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Japanese and Somali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Somali languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Somali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Somali are Most Spoken Languages.

All Japanese 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 Japanese and Somali dialects. Various dialects of Japanese and Somali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Japanese are spoken in different Japanese Speaking Countries whereas Somali Dialects are spoken in different Somali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Japanese vs Somali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Japanese dialects include: Sanuki, Hakata. Somali dialects include: Northern Somali , Benaadir. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Japanese and Somali Speaking population

Japanese and Somali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Somali languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Somali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Somali on Japanese vs Somali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Somali Language Codes

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