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Somali (Af Soomaali)
Region: Horn of Africa
Ethnicity: Somalis
Native speakers: 21,807,730 (2019)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic (Cushitic)

SOMALI is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch. It is spoken as a mother tongue by Somalis in Greater Somalia and the Somali diaspora. Somali is an official language of Somalia and Somaliland, a national language in Djibouti, and a working language in the Somali Region of Ethiopia and also in North Eastern Kenya. The Somali language is written officially with the Latin alphabet although the Arabic alphabet and several Somali scripts like Osmanya and the Borama script are informally used.

Somali is classified within the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family, specifically, Lowland East Cushitic in addition to Afar and Saho. Somali is the best-documented of the Cushitic languages, with academic studies of the language dating back to the late 19th century.

LINKS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalis
https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/somali/
https://omniglot.com/writing/somali.htm

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