Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Yemen
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan 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.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2635
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2130
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Habeenka Good
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Evening Good
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Fadlan
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
caraysiiyo
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Benaadir
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
China
How Many People Speak
21.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
21.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
af Soomaali
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
somali
tibétain
German Name
Somali
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Somalis
tibetan people
Origin
19th century
c. 650
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Somali
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
8329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
so
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
bod
ISO 639 2/B
som
tib
ISO 639 3
som
bod
ISO 639 6
som
bod
Glottocode
soma1255
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-