Somali > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Somali
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Af-Soomaali; Af-Maxaad Tiri; Common Somali; Standard Somali; Isa; Isaq; Sab; Darod
Spoken in:
Finland, Kenya, Sweden, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Italy
Number of speakers:
8,340,000 in Somalia (2006). Population total all countries: 13,871,700
(Ethnologue)
Code:
som
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
Somali; Somali Languages; Somali-Aweer (soma)
Child Dialects:
Degodia (som-deg)
Northern Somali (som-nor)
Ogaden (som-oga)
Af-Ashraaf; Ashraaf (som-afa)
Benaadir (som-ben)

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