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Countries

Countries

Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Meghalaya

Total No. Of Countries

31
0 46
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National Language

Somalia
Bangladesh, India

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents

Africa, Middle East
Asia

Minority Language

Yemen
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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.
  • Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
  • There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.

Similar To

Afar and Oromo Language
Garo and Jaintia Languages

Derived From

Arabic Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2623
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2114
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Bengali, Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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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Greetings

Hello

Hello
Kumno

Thank You

Waad ku mahadsan tahay
Khublei

How Are You?

Sidee tahay ?
Kumno phi long?

Good Night

Habeenka Good
thia sukh

Good Evening

Evening Good
babha janmiet

Good Afternoon

galab wanaagsan
babha noph-phai-sngi

Good Morning

Subax wanaagsan
khublei

Please

Fadlan
Sngewbha

Sorry

sorry
Map

Bye

caraysiiyo
khublei

I Love You

Waan ku jeclahay
ieit ieit

Excuse Me

iga raali ahow
map a nga

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Somali
Bhoi

Where They Speak

Gabon, Standard Somali
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How Many People Speak

16,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Benaadir
Nonglung

Where They Speak

Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
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How Many People Speak

16,000,000.001,200,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Af-Ashraaf
Cherrapunji

Where They Speak

Standard Somali
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How Many People Speak

21.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

35
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

13.00 million0.84 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.00 million0.84 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

21.00 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

af Soomaali
Ka Ktien

Alternative Names

Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia

French Name

somali
khasi

German Name

Somali
Khasi-Sprache

Pronunciation

[afsoomaali]
[ˈkʰɑsi]

Ethnicity

Somalis
Khasi people

History

Origin

19th century
1200 AD

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup

Cushitic
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Branch

-
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No Early Forms

Standard Forms

Somali
Khasi

Language Position

8340
1 120
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Signed Forms

Somali Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

so
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

som
kha

ISO 639 2/B

som
kha

ISO 639 3

som
kha

ISO 639 6

som
kha

Glottocode

soma1255
khas1269

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

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Somali and Khasi Alphabets

Somali and Khasi Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Somali and Khasi. In Somali Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters. To learn Somali and Khasi languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Somali and Khasi 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 Khasi greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Somali and Khasi are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Somali and Khasi Speaking population

Somali and Khasi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Somali and Khasi languages can be compared. The total count of Somali and Khasi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Somali language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 %. 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 Khasi on Somali vs Khasi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Somali and Khasi Language Codes

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