Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
European Union, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Poland
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Europe
Minority Language
Yemen
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)
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.
- Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
- The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2632
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2123
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Hello
cześć
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
dziękuję
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Jak się masz?
Good Night
Habeenka Good
dobranoc
Good Evening
Evening Good
dobry wieczór
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
dzień dobry
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Dzień dobry
Please
Fadlan
proszę
Sorry
sorry
Przepraszam
Bye
caraysiiyo
do widzenia
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
kocham Cię
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
przepraszam
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Kashubian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Poland
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00108,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
Masovian
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Poland
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0045,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Silesian
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Czech Republic, Poland
How Many People Speak
21.00510,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
334
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million40.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.61 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million40.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
af Soomaali
Polski
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Polnisch, Polski
French Name
somali
polonais
German Name
Somali
Polnisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[ˈpɔlski]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Poles
Origin
19th century
1270
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish
Standard Forms
Somali
Polish
Language Position
8324
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
pl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
pol
ISO 639 2/B
som
pol
ISO 639 3
som
pol
ISO 639 6
som
pols
Glottocode
soma1255
poli1260
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-cc
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic