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Countries

Countries

Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

34
0 46
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National Language

Somalia
Russia

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan

Speaking Continents

Africa, Middle East
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Yemen
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

Regulated By

National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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.
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.

Similar To

Afar and Oromo Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages

Derived From

Arabic Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2633
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2121
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Cyrillic

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

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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Greetings

Hello

Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)

Thank You

Waad ku mahadsan tahay
спасибо(spasibo)

How Are You?

Sidee tahay ?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)

Good Night

Habeenka Good
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)

Good Evening

Evening Good
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)

Good Afternoon

galab wanaagsan
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')

Good Morning

Subax wanaagsan
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)

Please

Fadlan
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)

Sorry

sorry
Извините(Izvinite)

Bye

caraysiiyo
до свидания(do svidaniya)

I Love You

Waan ku jeclahay
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)

Excuse Me

iga raali ahow
извините(izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Northern Somali
Doukhobor Russian

Where They Speak

Gabon, Standard Somali
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Benaadir
Olonets

Where They Speak

Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Olonets

How Many People Speak

16,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Af-Ashraaf
Novgorod

Where They Speak

Standard Somali
Novgorod

How Many People Speak

21.00154,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

313
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

13.00 million276.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.07 %2.33 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

8.00 million166.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

21.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

af Soomaali
Русский

Alternative Names

Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Russki

French Name

somali
russe

German Name

Somali
Russisch

Pronunciation

[afsoomaali]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]

Ethnicity

Somalis
Russians

History

Origin

19th century
1000 AD

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family

Subgroup

Cushitic
Slavic

Branch

-
Eastern

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old East Slavic

Standard Forms

Somali
Standard Russian

Language Position

837
1 120
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Signed Forms

Somali Sign Language
Signed Russian

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

so
ru

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

som
rus

ISO 639 2/B

som
rus

ISO 639 3

som
rus

ISO 639 6

som
rus

Glottocode

soma1255
russ1263

Linguasphere

No data available
53-AAA-ea

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Somali and Russian Alphabets

Somali and Russian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Somali and Russian. In Somali Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Russian Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Somali and Russian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Somali and Russian languages. The Somali phonology consist Somali vowels and Somali consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Somali greetings vs Russian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Somali and Russian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Somali and Russian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Somali and Russian dialects. Various dialects of Somali and Russian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Somali are spoken in different Somali Speaking Countries whereas Russian Dialects are spoken in different Russian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Somali vs Russian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Somali dialects include: Northern Somali, Benaadir. Russian dialects include: Doukhobor Russian , Olonets. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Somali and Russian Speaking population

Somali and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Somali and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Somali and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Somali language is 0.07 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Somali and Russian on Somali vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Somali and Russian Language Codes

Somali and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Somali and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.