Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Somalia
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Yemen
Hawaii
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2628
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
510
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
您好
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
谢谢
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
你好吗？
Good Night
Habeenka Good
晚安
Good Evening
Evening Good
晚上好
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
下午好
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
早上好
Please
Fadlan
请
Sorry
sorry
遗憾
Bye
caraysiiyo
再见
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
我爱你
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
原谅我
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
21.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
somali
cantonais
German Name
Somali
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Han Chinese
Origin
19th century
17th century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Somali
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
831
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
so
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
yue
ISO 639 2/B
som
yue
ISO 639 3
som
No data available
ISO 639 6
som
yue
Glottocode
soma1255
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-