Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Yemen
Mon
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Myanmar Language Commission
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Thai Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2133
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Tangut
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
Habeenka Good
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
Evening Good
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Fadlan
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
caraysiiyo
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Intha
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Burma
How Many People Speak
21.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
somali
birman
German Name
Somali
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Bamar people
Origin
19th century
1113 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Somali
Modern Burmese
Language Position
8343
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
mya
ISO 639 2/B
som
bur
ISO 639 3
som
mya
ISO 639 6
som
mya
Glottocode
soma1255
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating