Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Somalia
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Africa
Minority Language
Yemen
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Yoruba Academy
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.
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2629
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2117
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
e dupe
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
Habeenka Good
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
Evening Good
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
e kaasan
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
e kaaro
Please
Fadlan
Jowo
Sorry
sorry
binu
Bye
caraysiiyo
bye
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Ede
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
21.0010,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
somali
yoruba
German Name
Somali
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Yoruba people
Origin
19th century
4 BC
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Somali
Yorùbá
Language Position
8349
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
yor
ISO 639 2/B
som
yor
ISO 639 3
som
yor
ISO 639 6
som
yor
Glottocode
soma1255
yoru1245
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating