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Javanese
Javanese

Somali
Somali



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Countries

Countries

Indonesia
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia

Total No. Of Countries

13
0 46
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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

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2726
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

65
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2121
9 60
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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
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks52 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

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

Dialects

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
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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
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Dialect 3

Arekan
Af-Ashraaf

Where They Speak

Indonesia
Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

82,000,000.0021.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

163
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

82.00 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.25 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

76.00 million8.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

82.00 million21.00 million
0.01 400
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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

History

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

Code

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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Javanese and Somali Alphabets

Javanese and Somali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Javanese and Somali. In Javanese Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Somali Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Javanese and Somali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Javanese and Somali languages. The Javanese phonology consist Javanese vowels and Javanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Javanese greetings vs Somali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Javanese and Somali are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Javanese and Somali Speaking population

Javanese and Somali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Javanese and Somali languages can be compared. The total count of Javanese and Somali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Javanese language is 1.25 % 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 Javanese and Somali on Javanese vs Somali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Javanese and Somali Language Codes

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