Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
43
0
46
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National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Yemen
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
- 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
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
-
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3026
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2521
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
Hello
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Како си? (Kako si?)
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Subax wanaagsan
Please
Молим (Molim)
Fadlan
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
sorry
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
caraysiiyo
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Serbia
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Torlakian
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.13 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.70 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
serbe
somali
German Name
Serbisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Serbs
Somalis
Origin
11th Century
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
Standard Serbian
Somali
Language Position
4483
1
120
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Signed Forms
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sr
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
srp
som
ISO 639 2/B
srp
som
ISO 639 3
srp
som
ISO 639 6
srp
som
Glottocode
serb1264
soma1255
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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-