Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Norway
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Norway
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Europe, South America
Minority Language
Yemen
Nynorsk
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Norwegian Language Council
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.
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Swedish and Danish Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
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
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
hallo
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
takk
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
hvordan har du det?
Good Night
Habeenka Good
god natt
Good Evening
Evening Good
god kveld
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
god ettermiddag
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
god morgen
Please
Fadlan
Vær så snill
Sorry
sorry
unnskyld
Bye
caraysiiyo
ha det
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Jeg Elsker Deg
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
unnskyld meg
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Jamtlandic
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Jamtland,Harjedalen
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Sognamål
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Sogn
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Hallingmål-Valdris
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Hallingdal, Valdres
How Many People Speak
21.005,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
319
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million5.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million5.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
Norsk
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Norsk
French Name
somali
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
German Name
Somali
Nynorsk
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
Ethnicity
Somalis
Norwegians
Origin
19th century
c. 1300 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Germanic
Branch
-
Northern (Scandinavian)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Standard Forms
Somali
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Language Position
8318
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Norwegian
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
so
no
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
nor
ISO 639 2/B
som
nor
ISO 639 3
som
nor
ISO 639 6
som
nor
Glottocode
soma1255
norw1258
Linguasphere
No data available
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional