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The official languages of Somalia are Somali and Arabic as specified in the constitution. [2] [3] Somali, the endoglossic language of Somalia, is the most widely spoken language in the country, [4] with Northern Standard Somali as the most widely spoken dialect of the language, at around 60% of the population, followed by Maay Somali at 20% and Benadiri Somali at 18%.
Arabic is the lingua franca of people who live in countries of the Arab world as well as of Arabs who live in the diaspora, particularly in Latin America (especially Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Colombia) or Western Europe (like France, Spain, Germany or Italy).
Somalia has two official languages, Arabic and Somali, while Somaliland has three, Arabic, Somali and English. [35] Both Arabic and Somali belong to the larger Afro-Asiatic language family. Although Arabic is widely spoken by many people in the north and urban areas in the south, Somali is the most widely used language, and contains many Arabic ...
The Mozarabs, that had lived under Muslim rulers and had spoken their own varieties of Arabic-influenced Romance (known today by scholars as the Mozarabic languages), probably had a formative influence on the language and indirectly contributed Arabic vocabulary. The presence of Mozarabic refugees can explain the presence of Arabic toponyms in ...
Around 85% of Somalia's residents are ethnic Somalis; the official languages of the country are Somali and Arabic, though Somali is the primary language. Somalia has historic and religious ties to the Arab world. [21] As such the people in Somalia are Muslims, [22] the majority of them Sunni. [23] In antiquity, Somalia was an important ...
Finding and fighting the militants who have become the beating heart of the Islamic State (IS) group in Africa can be tough work as they hide deep in the mountains of north-eastern Somalia.
Somali is classified within the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family, specifically, Lowland East Cushitic in addition to Afar and Saho. [10] Somali is the best-documented of the Cushitic languages, [11] with academic studies of the language dating back to the late 19th century.
Arab presence in Europe predates Islam, and became predominant during the eras of the Roman and Byzantine Empire.The Romans conquered the Nabatean Kingdom in the Southern Levant, and named the province Arabia Petraea, and led a failed invasion of Yemen and South Arabia and what they called Arabia Felix or "Happy Arabia".