Country Info

Somalia Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 4,169,869 people (38% of Somalia) that can read or write at least one language.

4 Writing Systems used in Somalia

Somali (Latin)

so-latn
language code
8,604,492
people

Arabic (Arabic)

ar-arab
language code
3,750,676
people

Swahili (Latin)

sw-latn
language code
220,628
people

Oromo (Latin)

om-latn
language code
46,331
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR