Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
China
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
China
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
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Uzbek Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2636
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2127
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hello
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
rakhmat
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
Habeenka Good
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
Evening Good
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
Fadlan
birdam
Sorry
sorry
kachurung
Bye
caraysiiyo
Khayr khosh
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Turpan
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
China
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Benaadir
Hotan
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
China
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
China
How Many People Speak
21.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
37
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
somali
ouïgour
German Name
Somali
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Uyghur
Origin
19th century
11
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Somali
Uyghur
Language Position
8398
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
so
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
uig
ISO 639 2/B
som
uig
ISO 639 3
som
uig
ISO 639 6
som
uig
Glottocode
soma1255
uigh1240
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-