Africa · ISO 639-3 som · Glottocode soma1255
Somali
Somali makes visible an Afro-Asiatic language recorded in four East African source countries with a Latin CLDR assignment.
- Language family
- Afro-Asiatic
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- not endangered
- Macroarea
- Africa
- Source country codes
- DJ · ET · KE · SO
- Reference point
- 4.779, 45.153
Open research question
Which historical and present-day writing traditions require separate sources before their relationship is described?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.