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Preferred term

Somali  

Definition

  • Somali is an Afro-Asiatic language, belonging to that family’s Cushitic branch. It is spoken as a mother tongue by ethnic Somalis.A number of writing systems have been used for transcribing the language. Of these, the Somali Latin alphabet, officially adopted in 1972, is the most widely used.

Identifier

  • SOM

Notation

  • so
  • SO
  • som

In other languages

  • сомалийски

    Bulgarian

  • somalski

    Croatian

  • somálština

    Czech

  • somali

    Danish

  • Somalisch

    Dutch

  • somaali keel

    Estonian

  • somali

    Finnish

  • somali

    French

  • Somali

    German

  • σομαλικά

    Greek

  • szomáli

    Hungarian

  • Somáilis

    Irish

  • somalo

    Italian

  • somāļu valoda

    Latvian

  • somalių kalba

    Lithuanian

  • Somali

    Maltese

  • somalijski

    Polish

  • somali

    Portuguese

  • somaleză

    Romanian

  • somálčina

    Slovak

  • somalijščina

    Slovenian

  • af-soomaali

    Somali

  • اف سومالى
  • somalí

    Spanish

  • somaliska

    Swedish

  • сомалійська мова

    Ukrainian

URI

http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SOM

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