Countries
Turkey, Uzbekistan
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Yemen
Regulated By
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National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
Interesting Facts
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
- 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
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
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Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2926
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2421
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Salom
Hello
Thank You
Rakhmat
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
Qalay siz?
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
Hayirli tun
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
Hayirli kech
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
Hayirli kun
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
Hayirli tong
Subax wanaagsan
Please
Iltimos
Fadlan
Sorry
Kechiring!
sorry
Bye
Xayr
caraysiiyo
I Love You
Sizni sevaman
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
Iltimos! Menga qarang
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Tashkent
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
-
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
32,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Afghan
Benaadir
Where They Speak
-
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
32,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Ferghana
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
-
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
32,000,000.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.39 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
26.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
32.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
ouszbek
somali
German Name
Usbekisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[oʻzbek]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Uzbek
Somalis
Origin
9th–12th centuries AD
19th century
Language Family
Turkic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Cushitic
Branch
Southestern(Chagatai)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Chagatay
No early forms
Standard Forms
Uzbek
Somali
Language Position
5383
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Uzbek
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
uz
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
uzb
som
ISO 639 2/B
uzb
som
ISO 639 3
uzb
som
ISO 639 6
uzb
som
Glottocode
uzbe1247
soma1255
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-