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Somali
Somali

Finnish
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Countries

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
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2629
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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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
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Time Taken to Learn

52 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

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

Dialects

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
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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
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Dialect 3

Af-Ashraaf
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

Standard Somali
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

21.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

321
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

13.00 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.00 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

21.00 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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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

History

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

Code

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

Somali and Finnish Alphabets

Somali and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Somali and Finnish. In Somali Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Somali and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Somali and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Somali and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Somali and Finnish Speaking population

Somali and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Somali and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Somali and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Somali language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. 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 Finnish on Somali vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Somali and Finnish Language Codes

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