Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
India
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Somalia
India
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Marathi
Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2652
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
Namaskar
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
kaso assa?
Good Night
Habeenka Good
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
Evening Good
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Fadlan
Chike
Sorry
sorry
Maf kor
Bye
caraysiiyo
Adeus
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Antruz
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Goa
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Not present
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
-
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Not present
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
-
How Many People Speak
21.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
somali
konkani
German Name
Somali
Konkani
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Somalis
Konkanis
Origin
19th century
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Somali
Kokani
Language Position
8323
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
so
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
kok
ISO 639 2/B
som
kok
ISO 639 3
som
kok
ISO 639 6
som
kok
Glottocode
soma1255
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-