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Somali Language

The language Somali is represented by the language code "SOM" which belongs to language family.

  • Mainly Oromia and Somali regions; areas in Afar and Dire Dawa regions. Users: 6,815,600 in Ethiopia, all users. L1 users: 6,720,000 in Ethiopia (2018). L2 users: 95,600. 2,880,000 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 6,720,000 (2018). Status: 2 (Provincial). De facto language of provincial identity in Somali Region. Alternate Names: Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Somalie, Standard Somali. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, East, Somali.

Data domain

So far, the language Somali has a 6 domain as part of the language resource collected by Ethiopian language resource. In addition to this, the language has a total of 3149 documents from this domain.

The detail domain statistical information is presented as follows;

Data source

So far, the language Somali a language resource are collected from different sources by Ethiopian language resource.

The detail source statistical information is presented as follows;