Iska warran!
say it: “IS-kah wah-RAHN”
Somali
in its own words: Soomaali
- Speakers
- 22 million (estimate)
- Family
- Afroasiatic – Cushitic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia
- Script
- Latin
- Official language
- Somalia
Fun fact
Somali received its official Latin-script written standard only in 1972; until then it was chiefly a language of rich oral poetry.