Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Somalia
Malta
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
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
National Council for the Maltese 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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Arabic Language
Roman Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2630
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
Ħello
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
Grazzi
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Kif int?
Good Night
Habeenka Good
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
Evening Good
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Fadlan
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
sorry
Skużani!
Bye
caraysiiyo
Ċaw
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Skużi!
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Qormi
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Malta
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00520,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Malta
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Not Present
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
-
How Many People Speak
21.00500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
32
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million0.52 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million0.52 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million0.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
Malti
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Malti
French Name
somali
maltais
German Name
Somali
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[mɔːltiːz]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Maltese
Origin
19th century
c. 1470
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Semitic
Branch
-
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Somali
Maltese
Language Position
8325
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
som
mlt
ISO 639 3
som
mlt
ISO 639 6
som
mlt
Glottocode
soma1255
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic