Countries
India
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
👆🏻
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Yemen
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- 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
Marathi
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5226
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3621
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
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskar
Hello
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
kaso assa?
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
Subax wanaagsan
Please
Chike
Fadlan
Sorry
Maf kor
sorry
Bye
Adeus
caraysiiyo
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Antruz
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Goa
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Benaadir
Where They Speak
-
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
-
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
7.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
13
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
konkani
somali
German Name
Konkani
Somali
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Somalis
Origin
1209 A.D.
19th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kokani
Somali
Language Position
2383
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
som
ISO 639 2/B
kok
som
ISO 639 3
kok
som
ISO 639 6
kok
som
Glottocode
goan1235
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
-
-