Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Turkey, Uzbekistan
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Middle East
Minority Language
Yemen
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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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.
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2124
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hello
Salom
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
Rakhmat
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Qalay siz?
Good Night
Habeenka Good
Hayirli tun
Good Evening
Evening Good
Hayirli kech
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Hayirli kun
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Hayirli tong
Please
Fadlan
Iltimos
Sorry
sorry
Kechiring!
Bye
caraysiiyo
Xayr
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Sizni sevaman
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Iltimos! Menga qarang
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Tashkent
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
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How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0032,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Benaadir
Afghan
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
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How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0032,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Ferghana
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
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How Many People Speak
21.0032,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
13.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.39 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.00 million26.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million32.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
af Soomaali
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
somali
ouszbek
German Name
Somali
Usbekisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[oʻzbek]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Uzbek
Origin
19th century
9th–12th centuries AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Turkic
Branch
-
Southestern(Chagatai)
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Chagatay
Standard Forms
Somali
Uzbek
Language Position
8353
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Uzbek
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
so
uz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
uzb
ISO 639 2/B
som
uzb
ISO 639 3
som
uzb
ISO 639 6
som
uzb
Glottocode
soma1255
uzbe1247
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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