Somali

Esperanto

Somali and Esperanto

Somali

Esperanto

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Countries

Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia

East Asia, European Union, South America

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

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National Language

Somalia

East Asia, European Union

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America

Speaking Continents

Africa, Middle East

Asia, Europe, South America

Minority Language

Yemen

Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy

Akademio de Esperanto

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 most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
Esperanto is an artificial international language.

Similar To

Afar and Oromo Language

Latin and Italian Languages

Derived From

Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2632

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

0 32

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How Many Consonants

2127

9 60

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Scripts

Arabic, Latin, Osmanya

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

52 weeks6 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

Halo

Thank You

Waad ku mahadsan tahay

Dankon

How Are You?

Sidee tahay ?

Kiel vi sanas?

Good Night

Habeenka Good

Bonan nokton

Good Evening

Evening Good

Bonan vesperon

Good Afternoon

galab wanaagsan

Bonan posttagmezon

Good Morning

Subax wanaagsan

Bonan matenon

Please

Fadlan

Mi petas

Sorry

sorry

Mi bedaŭras!

Bye

caraysiiyo

Ĝis poste

I Love You

Waan ku jeclahay

Mi amas vin

Excuse Me

iga raali ahow

Pardonu!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Somali

Not present

Where They Speak

Gabon, Standard Somali

Not present

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.002,000,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Benaadir

Not present

Where They Speak

Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu

Not present

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.001,000,000.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Af-Ashraaf

Not present

Where They Speak

Standard Somali

Not present

How Many People Speak

21.002,000,000.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

13.00 million2.20 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.03 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

8.00 million0.20 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

21.00 million2.00 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

af Soomaali

Esperanto

Alternative Names

Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga

Eo, La Lingvo Internacia

French Name

somali

espéranto

German Name

Somali

Esperanto

Pronunciation

[afsoomaali]

[espeˈranto]

Ethnicity

Somalis

Esperanto speakers

History

Origin

19th century

1887

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Cushitic

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Proto-Esperanto

Standard Forms

Somali

Esperanto

Language Position

8333

1 120

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Signed Forms

Somali Sign Language

Signuno

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

som

epo

ISO 639 2/B

som

epo

ISO 639 3

som

epo

ISO 639 6

som

epo

Glottocode

soma1255

espe1235

Linguasphere

No data available

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Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Constructed

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

Somali and Esperanto Alphabets

Somali and Esperanto Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Somali and Esperanto. In Somali Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Esperanto Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Somali and Esperanto languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Somali and Esperanto languages. The Somali phonology consist Somali vowels and Somali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Somali greetings vs Esperanto greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Somali and Esperanto are Most Spoken Languages.

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

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Somali and Esperanto Speaking population

Somali and Esperanto speaking population is one of the factors based on which Somali and Esperanto languages can be compared. The total count of Somali and Esperanto Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Somali language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Esperanto language is 0.03 %. 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 Somali and Esperanto on Somali vs Esperanto where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Somali and Esperanto Language Codes

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