Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Yemen
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2128
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Habeenka Good
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Evening Good
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
Fadlan
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
caraysiiyo
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Benaadir
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Kartli
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
21.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.64 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.00 million4.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
21.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
af Soomaali
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
somali
géorgien
German Name
Somali
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Georgians
Origin
19th century
5th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Southern
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Somali
Modern Georgian
Language Position
83120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
so
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
kat
ISO 639 2/B
som
geo
ISO 639 3
som
kat
ISO 639 6
som
kat
Glottocode
soma1255
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic