Countries
India
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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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
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National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5226
18
247
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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
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Hello
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Subax wanaagsan
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
Fadlan
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
sorry
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
caraysiiyo
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Not present
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
-
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
140,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Benaadir
Where They Speak
-
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
140,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
-
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
140,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
03
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
14.10 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
sanskrit
somali
German Name
Sanskrit
Somali
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Somalis
Origin
2000 B.C.
19th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Cushitic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Somali
Language Position
2383
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
som
ISO 639 2/B
san
som
ISO 639 3
san
som
ISO 639 6
san
som
Glottocode
sans1269
soma1255
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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