Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Total No. Of Countries
311
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Yemen
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Turkish Language Association
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.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Azerbaijani Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
👆🏻
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
Merhaba
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
teşekkür ederim
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Nasılsın?
Good Night
Habeenka Good
İyi Geceler
Good Evening
Evening Good
İyi Akşamlar
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Tünaydın
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
günaydın
Please
Fadlan
lütfen
Sorry
sorry
üzgünüm
Bye
caraysiiyo
Hoşçakal
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Seni seviyorum
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Afedersiniz
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00480,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Gagauz
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
How Many People Speak
21.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
39
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million75.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.95 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million60.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
Türkçe
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Anatolian, Türkisch
French Name
somali
turc
German Name
Somali
Türkisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Turkish
Origin
19th century
c. 1350
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Turkic
Branch
-
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Somali
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
8319
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
tr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
tur
ISO 639 2/B
som
tur
ISO 639 3
som
tur
ISO 639 6
som
tur
Glottocode
soma1255
nucl1301
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic