Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Somalia
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
East Timor, Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Yemen
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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.
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Malay language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2626
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2119
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
57
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks36 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
Halo
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
Terima kasih
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Apa kabar?
Good Night
Habeenka Good
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
Evening Good
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Selamat Pagi
Please
Fadlan
mohon Untuk
Sorry
sorry
maaf
Bye
caraysiiyo
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Permisi
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Sundanese
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Balinese
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.003,300,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Indonesia, Malaysia
How Many People Speak
21.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
346
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
somali
indonésien
German Name
Somali
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Indonesians
Origin
19th century
7th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Malay
Standard Forms
Somali
Indonesian
Language Position
8356
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
id
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
ind
ISO 639 2/B
som
ind
ISO 639 3
som
ind
ISO 639 6
som
ind
Glottocode
soma1255
indo1316
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
-
Agglutinative