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For upon |Somali belongs to the East Cushtic branch of Afro-Asiatic family of languages. It is Somalia’s national and official language, and is spoken by approximately 10-16 million mother-tongue speakers. An additional half a million speakers living in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya use Somali as their second language. One can also find a substantial population of Somali speakers in North America, Europe and Yemen.
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- At least four different scripts have been used to write Somali through its history, they include two native alphabets the Borama script and the Osmanya script, an alphabet derived from Latin and one from Arabic called Wadaad’s writing.
- Somali script uses 21 consonant phonemes and 5 basic vowels. It is an agglutinative language and uses several markers for number, gender and case.
- Somali was also written in a script called Borama or Gadabuursi which was invented by Sheikh Abdurahman Sheikh Nuur of Borama in 1933. However, its use was limited to the small circle of the Sheikh and his associates. At present the official script is based on the Latin alphabet.
- The dialectical variations of Somali are divided into three main groups. They are Benaadir, Maay and Northern. Standard Somali is based on the Northern dialect.
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- Somali vocabulary has many loanwords from Persian, Arabic and also from Italian and English due to colonial rule in the past.
- Afar and Oromo languages are the closest relatives of Somali.
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