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- The Somali language is written officially with the Latin alphabet although the Arabic alphabet and several Somali scripts like Osmanya, Kaddare and the Borama script are informally used.
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Somali is an official language in Somalia and Ethiopia, and a national language in Djibouti as well as in northeastern Kenya. The Somali language is written officially with the Latin alphabet although the Arabic alphabet and several Somali scripts like Osmanya, Kaddare and the Borama script are informally used.
- 21,937,940 (2019)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, Lowland East Cushitic, Macro-Somali, Somali languages, Somali; Number of speakers: c. 21.8 million; Spoken in: Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Yemen and Somaliland; First written: 13th century AD; Writing systems: Latin (official), Arabic, Osmanya, Kaddare and Borama scripts
In addition to Somali, Arabic, which is also an Afro-Asiatic tongue, is an official language in Somalia, although as a non-indigenous language, it is considered exoglossic. [3] [4] SIL estimates the total number of speakers, regardless of proficiency, at just over two million. [16]
Despite several regional dialects, it is understood throughout the country and is an official language. The second official language is Arabic, which is spoken chiefly in northern Somalia and in the coastal towns.…. …1973 and 1974, which made Somali a written language (in Latin characters) for the first time.
Before the arrival of the Italians and British, Somalis and religious fraternities either wrote in Arabic or used an ad hoc transliteration of Somali into Arabic script referred to as Wadaad's writing. It contains 32 letters; 10 of them are vowels, the remainder are consonants.
The Somali language is written officially with the Latin alphabet although the Arabic alphabet and several Somali scripts like Osmanya, Kaddare and the Borama script are informally used. Somali is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch.
Somali ( Arabic: الصوماليه) is a Cushitic language. It is spoken by ethnic Somalis in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Yemen and Kenya, as well as by the Somali diaspora around the world -- an estimated total population of between 10 and 16 million speakers. The writing system of the Somali language has been Latin alphabet since 1960.
