Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Yemen
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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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 Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2627
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Arabic, Javanese, 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 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hello
Halo
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Habeenka Good
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Evening Good
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Sugeng énjing
Please
Fadlan
matur nuwun
Sorry
sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
caraysiiyo
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Arekan
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
21.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
316
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
somali
javanais
German Name
Somali
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
19th century
450 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Somali
Javanese
Language Position
8311
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
jav
ISO 639 2/B
som
jav
ISO 639 3
som
jav
ISO 639 6
som
jav
Glottocode
soma1255
java1253
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
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Agglutinative