Somali Sign Language (SSL) is a sign language used by the deaf community in Somalia and Djibouti. In the 1980s a school for the deaf was established in...

national level. Somali is the official language of Somalia and as the mother tongue of the Somali people, is also its endoglossic language. It is a member...

Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch. It is spoken primarily in Greater Somalia, and by the Somali diaspora as a mother tongue. Somali is an...

Mombasa (eastern Kenya) and Somalia. (See Somali Sign Language.) As well as Kenyan Sign Language, a number of other languages have been used for instruction...

The languages of Djibouti include Afar, Arabic, Somali and French. Somali and Afar are the most widely spoken tongues, and Arabic and French serve as...

perhaps three hundred sign languages in use around the world today. The number is not known with any confidence; new sign languages emerge frequently through...

transcribe the Somali language. Of these, the Somali Latin alphabet is the most widely used. It has been the official writing script in Somalia since the Supreme...

The Somali people (Somali: Soomaalida, Osmanya: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒆𐒖, Wadaad: صومالِدَ‎) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share...

64 Samoan Sign Language Selangor Sign Language Somali Sign Language Spanish as a Second Language Spanish Sign Language Swedish Sign Language Sainsbury's...

000 people born in Somalia were living in Minnesota, and approximately 94,000 Minnesotans spoke Somali language at home. Ethnic Somalis first emigrated to...

Italian Somalis (Italian: Italo-somali) are Somali-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated...

rapidly increasing. Somali and Arabic are the official languages of Somalia. The Somali language is the mother tongue of the Somali people, the nation's...

Somali Americans are Americans of Somali ancestry. The first ethnic Somalis to arrive in the U.S. were sailors who came in the 1920s from British Somaliland...

three official languages: Somali, Arabic, and second language English. Article 6 of the Constitution of 2001 designates the official languages of Somaliland...

Charter of the Somali Republic Archived 18 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine: "The official languages of the Somali Republic shall be Somali (Maay and Maxaatiri)...

The Somali shilling (sign: Sh.So.; Somali: shilin; Arabic: شلن; Italian: scellino; ISO 4217: SOS) is the official currency of Somalia. It is subdivided...

Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic or Semitic branches. The former includes the Oromo language, spoken by the Oromo, and Somali, spoken by the Somalis; the...

ensure that deaf people in Somalia have rights like any other Somali citizen. This organization works to promote Somali Sign Language, deaf education, and human...

pillars of Somali culture. Somali poetry is mainly oral, with both male and female poets. They use things that are common in the Somali language as metaphors...

unification efforts of Somali nationalists. The post-independence governments of the Somali Republic (1960-1969) and the Somali Democratic Republic (1969-1991)...

his fourth and fifth voyage to the Somali cities of Mogadishu, Zeila, Merca and Berbera. Sa'id of Mogadishu, a Somali explorer, travelled to China in the...

Somali Sign Language. In 1984, following political and inter-clan clashes, the army of Kenya started a repression campaign against the Degodia Somali...

Piracy off the coast of Somalia occurs in the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel, and Somali Sea, in Somali territorial waters and other surrounding places...

000 people, the other language was an Indigenous language. Finally, the number of people reporting sign languages as the languages spoken at home was nearly...

The Somali Civil War (Somali: Dagaalkii Sokeeye ee Soomaaliya; Arabic: الحرب الأهلية الصومالية al-ḥarb al-’ahliyya aṣ-ṣūmāliyya) is an ongoing civil war...

The grammar of American Sign Language (ASL) has rules just like any other sign language or spoken language. ASL grammar studies date back to William Stokoe...

president of Somalia (Somali: Madaxaweynaha Soomaaliya) is the head of state of Somalia. The president is also commander-in-chief of the Somali Armed Forces...

1991 after the start of the Somali civil war. Somali Airlines was founded on 5 March 1964 as the newly independent Somalia's national airline. The country's...

The Somali Republic (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliyeed; Italian: Repubblica Somala; Arabic: الجمهورية الصومالية, romanized: Al-Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmālīyyah)...

Somalis in Ethiopia refers to the ethnic Somalis from Ethiopia, particularly the Ogaden, officially known as the Somali Region. Their language is primarily...