Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Yemen
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2113
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
Moi
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
Kiitos
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Habeenka Good
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Evening Good
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Hyvää huomenta
Please
Fadlan
haluta
Sorry
sorry
Anteeksi
Bye
caraysiiyo
Heippa
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Finland
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Rauma
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
21.0060,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million5.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million5.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Suomi
French Name
somali
finnois
German Name
Somali
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Somalis
ethnic Finns
Origin
19th century
1543
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Somali
standard Finnish
Language Position
8322
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
fin
ISO 639 2/B
som
fin
ISO 639 3
som
fin
ISO 639 6
som
fin
Glottocode
soma1255
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic