Countries
Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
33
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2653
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2141
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
52
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Hello
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Habeenka Good
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Evening Good
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Fadlan
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
sorry
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
caraysiiyo
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Mappila
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
India
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
21.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
somali
malayalam
German Name
Somali
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Malayali
History
Origin
19th century
9th Century
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Somali
Malayalam
Language Position
8329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
so
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
mal
ISO 639 2/B
som
mal
ISO 639 3
som
mal
ISO 639 6
som
mal
Glottocode
soma1255
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic