Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
34
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Yemen
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2633
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
56
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Habeenka Good
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Evening Good
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Fadlan
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
caraysiiyo
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Benaadir
Olonets
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Olonets
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
21.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
313
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million276.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %2.33 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million166.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
af Soomaali
Русский
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Russki
French Name
somali
russe
German Name
Somali
Russisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Somalis
Russians
Origin
19th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Somali
Standard Russian
Language Position
837
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
rus
ISO 639 2/B
som
rus
ISO 639 3
som
rus
ISO 639 6
som
rus
Glottocode
soma1255
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic