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Google Translate does not directly translate from one language to another (L1 → L2). Instead, it often translates first to English and then to the target language (L1 → EN → L2). [97] [98] [99] [8] [100] However, because English, like all human languages, is ambiguous and depends on context, this can cause translation errors.
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 ...
Wadaad's writing, also known as Wadaad's Arabic (Somali: Far Wadaad, فَر وَداد, lit. 'Scholar's Handwriting'), is the traditional Somali adaptation of written Arabic [1] [2] as well as the Arabic script as historically used to transcribe the Somali language.
Osman Yusuf Kenadid. While Osmanya gained reasonably wide acceptance in Somalia and quickly produced a considerable body of literature, it proved difficult to spread among the population mainly due to stiff competition from the long-established Arabic script as well as the emerging Somali Latin alphabet developed by a number of leading scholars of Somali, including Musa Haji Ismail Galal, B. W ...
Maay is not mutually comprehensible with Northern Somali or Benadir, and it differs considerably in sentence structure and phonology. [5] It is also not generally used in education or media. However, Maay speakers often use Standard Somali as a lingua franca . [ 4 ]
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 ]
Somali belongs to a set of languages called Lowland East Cushitic spoken by Somalis living in Somalia, Djibouti, and in adjacent territories. Eastern Cushitic is one branch of the Cushitic languages, which in turn are part of the great Afro-Asiatic stock. Arabic is the most widely spoken language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. [citation ...
The Somali Latin alphabet is an official writing system in the Federal Republic of Somalia and its constituent Federal Member States.It was developed by a number of leading scholars of Somali, including Musa Haji Ismail Galal, B. W. Andrzejewski and Shire Jama Ahmed specifically for transcribing the Somali language, and is based on the Latin script.