Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Somalia
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Europe
Minority Language
Yemen
Poland
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Latvian
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2632
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2120
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
Sveiki
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
Ačiū
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
Habeenka Good
Labanakt
Good Evening
Evening Good
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Laba diena
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Labas rytas
Please
Fadlan
Prašom
Sorry
sorry
atsiprašau
Bye
caraysiiyo
Ate
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Samogitian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Curonian
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
21.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
310
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
somali
lituanien
German Name
Somali
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Lithuanians
Origin
19th century
c. 1503
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
-
Branch
-
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Somali
Lithuanian
Language Position
8344
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
lit
ISO 639 2/B
som
lit
ISO 639 3
som
lit
ISO 639 6
som
lit
Glottocode
soma1255
lith1251
Linguasphere
No data available
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic