Countries
India, Pakistan
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Pakistan
Somalia
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
India
Yemen
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
- 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.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5226
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
4021
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
خوش آمديد
Hello
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
Subax wanaagsan
Please
براہ مہربانی
Fadlan
Sorry
معاف کرنا
sorry
Bye
الوداع
caraysiiyo
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
India
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Benaadir
Where They Speak
India
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Rekhta
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
South Asia
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
104.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.99 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
61.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
43.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
اُردُو
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Bihari
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
ourdou
somali
German Name
Urdu
Somali
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
Somalis
Origin
12th Century CE
19th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Cushitic
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Somali
Language Position
2083
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ur
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
som
ISO 639 2/B
urd
som
ISO 639 3
urd
som
ISO 639 6
urd
som
Glottocode
urdu1245
soma1255
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
-