Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Somalia
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Middle East
Minority Language
Yemen
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
-
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 vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Farsi Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2129
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
Silaw
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
Sipas
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
Habeenka Good
Şev xweş
Good Evening
Evening Good
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Bayanit bash
Please
Fadlan
Bê zehmet
Sorry
sorry
Bibûre
Bye
caraysiiyo
Be xêr çî
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
21.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.31 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
somali
kurde
German Name
Somali
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Kurds
Origin
19th century
16th century CE
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Somali
Kurdish
Language Position
8314
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
so
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
kur
ISO 639 2/B
som
kur
ISO 639 3
som
kur
ISO 639 6
som
kur
Glottocode
soma1255
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data available
58-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-