Countries
Indonesia
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Yemen
Regulated By
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National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
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Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2726
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
Hello
Thank You
matur nuwun
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
piye kabare?
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
wengi sing apik
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
Subax wanaagsan
Please
matur nuwun
Fadlan
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
sorry
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
caraysiiyo
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
163
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
javanais
somali
German Name
Javanisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Somalis
Origin
450 AD
19th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Somali
Language Position
1183
1
120
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Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
som
ISO 639 2/B
jav
som
ISO 639 3
jav
som
ISO 639 6
jav
som
Glottocode
java1253
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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