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Sanskrit
Sanskrit

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Countries

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

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5226
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

165
0 32
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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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Greetings

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

Dialects

Dialect 1

Not present
Northern Somali

Where They Speak

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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
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Dialect 3

Not present
Af-Ashraaf

Where They Speak

-
Standard Somali

How Many People Speak

140,000.0021.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

03
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

14.10 million13.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.07 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

14.10 million8.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

-21.00 million
0.01 400
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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

History

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

Code

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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Sanskrit and Somali Alphabets

Sanskrit and Somali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sanskrit and Somali. In Sanskrit Alphabets there are 52 letters while in Somali Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Sanskrit and Somali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sanskrit and Somali languages. The Sanskrit phonology consist Sanskrit vowels and Sanskrit consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sanskrit greetings vs Somali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sanskrit and Somali are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Sanskrit and Somali Speaking population

Sanskrit and Somali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sanskrit and Somali languages can be compared. The total count of Sanskrit and Somali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is 0.01 % 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 Sanskrit and Somali on Sanskrit vs Somali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sanskrit and Somali Language Codes

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