Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
35
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Yemen
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2626
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
524
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2123
9
60
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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
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Habeenka Good
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Evening Good
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Fadlan
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
caraysiiyo
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Benaadir
Wu
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Yue
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
21.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
somali
chinois
German Name
Somali
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Han
Origin
19th century
1250 BC
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 Chinese
Language Position
831
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
zho
ISO 639 2/B
som
chi
ISO 639 3
som
zho
ISO 639 6
som
zho
Glottocode
soma1255
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating