Afro-Asiatic · East Africa

Somali

Not endangered

Somali is documented so far only to the level of long grammar.

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FamilyAfro-Asiatic
StatusNot endangered
DocumentationLong grammar
ISO 639-3som
Glottocodesoma1255

Spoken in Djibouti · Ethiopia · Kenya · Somalia

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Afro-Asiatic's family tree with Somali.

  1. Aweer

    Shifting
    Grammar sketch

  2. Baiso

    Shifting
    Grammar

  3. Dabarre

    Threatened
    Grammar sketch

  4. Garre

    Threatened
    Grammar

  5. Girirra

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  6. Jiiddu

    Threatened
    Grammar sketch

  7. Maay

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  8. Rendille

    Not endangered
    Grammar

Reference data for Somali from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)