Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Ukraine
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
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2122
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
Habeenka Good
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
Evening Good
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Fadlan
будь ласк
Sorry
sorry
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
caraysiiyo
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Podillian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Volynian
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Steppe
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
21.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
315
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
somali
ukrainien
German Name
Somali
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Ukrainians
Origin
19th century
1561
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Somali
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
8326
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
som
ukr
ISO 639 3
som
ukr
ISO 639 6
som
ukr
Glottocode
soma1255
ukra1253
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic