🇸🇴 Country
Somalia
Somalia is home to 12 languages, spoken across East Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.
Capital
Mogadishu
Nationality
Somali
Currency
Somali Shilling (SOS)
Languages
12
Independence
Jul 1, 1960
12 active
0 endangered
0 extinct
Where the languages are spoken
Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Somalia; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.
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fewer / more speakers
Bubbles show a language's approximate centre, not its full extent. Speaker figures are our own estimates where a language lives in one country, and sourced per-country estimates where it crosses borders.
All languages in Somalia
Click any language to open its dictionary.
Arabic
Boon
Dabarre
50K
Garre
Jiiddu
45K
Maay
2.9M
Mushungulu
50K
Oromo Borana-Arsi-Guji
Swahili
Somali
Tunni
45K
Zigua
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