Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
👆🏻
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 in
Alphabets
2623
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
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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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
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
👆🏻
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
👆🏻
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million0.84 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million0.84 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
Origin
19th century
1200 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
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Branch
-
-
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
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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