Countries
China
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
China
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Yemen
Regulated By
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
- 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
Uzbek Language
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Gokturk Language
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2721
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
55
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Ässalamu läykum.
Hello
Thank You
rakhmat
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Subax wanaagsan
Please
birdam
Fadlan
Sorry
kachurung
sorry
Bye
Khayr khosh
caraysiiyo
I Love You
sizni yahshi kOrman
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
Kachurung
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Turpan
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
China
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hotan
Benaadir
Where They Speak
China
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Lop Nur
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
China
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
25,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
73
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
10.40 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.12 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
8.20 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
25.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
ouïgour
somali
German Name
Uigurisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Uyghur
Somalis
Origin
11
19th century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
No early forms
Standard Forms
Uyghur
Somali
Language Position
9883
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Uyghur
Somali Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
ug
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uig
som
ISO 639 2/B
uig
som
ISO 639 3
uig
som
ISO 639 6
uig
som
Glottocode
uigh1240
soma1255
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-