Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Somalia
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Yemen
India
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2652
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2140
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
54
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
خوش آمديد
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
Habeenka Good
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
Evening Good
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
گڈ مارننگ
Please
Fadlan
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
sorry
معاف کرنا
Bye
caraysiiyo
الوداع
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Dakhini
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
India
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
India
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Rekhta
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
South Asia
How Many People Speak
21.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Bihari
French Name
somali
ourdou
German Name
Somali
Urdu
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
19th century
12th Century CE
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Somali
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
8320
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Urdu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
urd
ISO 639 2/B
som
urd
ISO 639 3
som
urd
ISO 639 6
som
urd
Glottocode
soma1255
urdu1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional