Countries
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
31
0
46
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National Language
Somalia
Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Speaking Continents
Africa, Middle East
Asia
Minority Language
Yemen
Czech Republic
Regulated By
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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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 vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
Similar To
Afar and Oromo Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Chinese Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2637
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2121
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Hello
Xin chào
Thank You
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
Cam on
How Are You?
Sidee tahay ?
Bạn khỏe không?
Good Night
Habeenka Good
Chúc ngủ ngon
Good Evening
Evening Good
Chào buổi tối
Good Afternoon
galab wanaagsan
Chào buổi trưa
Good Morning
Subax wanaagsan
Chào buổi sáng
Please
Fadlan
xin vui lòng
Sorry
sorry
Xin lỗi
Bye
caraysiiyo
Tạm biệt
I Love You
Waan ku jeclahay
tôi yêu bạn
Excuse Me
iga raali ahow
Xin loi
Dialect 1
Northern Somali
Northern Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Gabon, Standard Somali
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Benaadir
North-central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0076,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Af-Ashraaf
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Standard Somali
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
How Many People Speak
21.0076,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
35
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million91.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %1.14 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.00 million75.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
21.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
af Soomaali
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Alternative Names
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
somali
vietnamien
German Name
Somali
Vietnamesisch
Pronunciation
[afsoomaali]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Ethnicity
Somalis
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Origin
19th century
c. 1440
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Cushitic
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Forms
Somali
Standard Vietnamese
Language Position
8314
1
120
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Signed Forms
Somali Sign Language
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
so
vi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
som
vie
ISO 639 2/B
som
vie
ISO 639 3
som
vie
ISO 639 6
som
vie
Glottocode
soma1255
viet1252
Linguasphere
No data available
46-EBA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating