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The Somali Latin script, or Somali Latin alphabet, was developed by a number of leading scholars of Somali, including Musa Haji Ismail Galal, Bogumił Andrzejewski and Shire Jama Ahmed specifically for transcribing the Somali language. [5] [6] It uses all letters of the English Latin alphabet except p, v and z, and has 21 consonants and five ...
Somalia. / 2.033°N 45.350°E / 2.033; 45.350. Somalia ( Somali: Soomaaliya; Arabic: الصومال ), officially called the Federal Republic of Somalia ( Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliya; Arabic: جمهورية الصومال ), is a country located on the Horn of Africa. It used to be known as the Somali Republic.
Jiiddu. Glottolog. east2653. The Macro-Somali or Somaloid languages, or (in the conception of Bernd Heine, who does not include Baiso [1] ), Sam languages, are a branch of the Lowland East Cushitic languages. They are spoken in Somalia, Djibouti, eastern Ethiopia, and northern Kenya. The most widely-spoken member is Somali.
Benaadir. Language codes. ISO 639-3. –. Glottolog. bena1268. Benadiri Somali, also referred to as "Coastal Somali" ( Somali: Af Reer Xamar ), is a dialect of the Somali language. It is primarily spoken by the Benadiri people, who inhabit the southern Banaadir coast of Somalia. [2]
The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania. As of 2012, the Cushitic languages with over one million speakers were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya ...
