Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
43
0
46
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National Language
Russia
Somalia
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Yemen
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3326
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
65
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Hello
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Subax wanaagsan
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Fadlan
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
sorry
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
caraysiiyo
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
30,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Olonets
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Olonets
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Novgorod
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
154,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
133
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
276.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
2.33 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
166.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
110.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Русский
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Russki
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
russe
somali
German Name
Russisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Russians
Somalis
Origin
1000 AD
19th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Cushitic
Branch
Eastern
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Somali
Language Position
783
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ru
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
rus
som
ISO 639 2/B
rus
som
ISO 639 3
rus
som
ISO 639 6
rus
som
Glottocode
russ1263
soma1255
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
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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