Countries
European Union, Poland
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Poland
Somalia
Second Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Yemen
Regulated By
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
- 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
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
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Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3226
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2321
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
cześć
Hello
Thank You
dziękuję
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Jak się masz?
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
dobranoc
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
dobry wieczór
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
dzień dobry
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
Dzień dobry
Subax wanaagsan
Please
proszę
Fadlan
Sorry
Przepraszam
sorry
Bye
do widzenia
caraysiiyo
I Love You
kocham Cię
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
przepraszam
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Kashubian
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Poland
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
108,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Masovian
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Poland
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
45,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Silesian
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Czech Republic, Poland
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
510,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
343
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
40.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.61 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
40.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
40.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Polski
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Polnisch, Polski
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
polonais
somali
German Name
Polnisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[ˈpɔlski]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Poles
Somalis
Origin
1270
19th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Cushitic
Branch
Western
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Polish
Somali
Language Position
2483
1
120
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Signed Forms
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
pl
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pol
som
ISO 639 2/B
pol
som
ISO 639 3
pol
som
ISO 639 6
pols
som
Glottocode
poli1260
soma1255
Linguasphere
53-AAA-cc
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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