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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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