It is one of the most important living languages in the Horn of Africa and is an official language in the Republic of Somalia along with Arabic. The Somali language belongs to the Afro-Asiatic languages and is spoken by about 15 million Somalis, most of whom are concentrated in the Somali Republic, the Ogaden Region, the Republic of Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya.
It is the national and official language of Somalia. Only Somalis speak it fluently, whether in Hargeisa, Kismayo, Mogadishu or Djibouti. They understand it, even if it is less used for its feet, but some of the Mudjan still speak it somewhat fluently. It is called Af-soomaali and is the basis of the present-day Somali language. There are some dialects spoken by Somalis, for example, the dialects spoken by Somalis differ according to their regions.
Somalis according to their regions and there are very small minorities who speak Swahili. Because of the Italian and English occupation of Somalia, the Italian and English languages are known to the Somalis. More recently but used only in a small scale. The Arabic language is also considered an official language in the country, spoken by most scholars and intellectuals, and understood by the people in general, due to the informal education system in the mosque circles. As for the daily talk about it, it is confined to new immigrants, who have not been more than a century old. They are concentrated in coastal cities, especially in Mogadishu. In the city of Jamama, near Kismayo, everyone speaks the Yemeni Hadrami Arabic dialect because they were influenced by the Yemeni Hadrami immigrants who inhabited Somalia.
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