
The Somali language is a member of the East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family and its nearest relatives are Afar and Oromo. Somali is the best-documented of the Cushitic languages, with academic studies of this language dating back to before 1900. There are an estimated 10-16 million Somali speakers worldwide, including 500,000 who know it as a second language. For a country with no effective central government since 1991, fixed estimates of language speakers must be viewed sce...
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