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Somali is the official language of Somalia and as the mother tongue of the Somali people, is also its endoglossic language. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is a member of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family, and its nearest relatives are the Afar and Saho languages. [ 6 ]
The Somali languages form a group that are part of the Afro-Asiatic language family. They are spoken as a mother tongue by ethnic Somalis in Horn of Africa and the Somali diaspora . Even with linguistic differences, Somalis collectively view themselves as speaking dialects of a common language.
Somali is an official language in both Somalia and Ethiopia, [7] and serves as a national language in Djibouti, it is also a recognised minority language in Kenya. The Somali language is officially written with the Latin alphabet although the Arabic script and several Somali scripts like Osmanya , Kaddare and the Borama script are informally used.
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [1] ... Somalia: 13 1 14 0.20 9,938,659 828,222 20,000
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Category: Somali language. 15 languages. ... Countries and territories where Somali is an official language (4 P) O. Somali orthography (6 P) S. Somali given names (1 ...
The following chart lists countries and dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold: internationally recognized sovereign states. The 193 member states of the United Nations (UN) Vatican City (administered by the Holy See, a UN observer state), which is generally recognized as a ...
Somali language (9 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Languages of Somalia" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent ...