Somali

by John I. Saeed

Somali is spoken by more than nine million people in the Horn of Africa and by expatriate communities in the Middle East, Europe and North America. It is the official language of Somalia and an important regional language in Ethiopia and Kenya. As a Cushitic language Somali is part of the great Afroasiatic language family whose other branches include Semitic, Berber, Chadic and Ancient Egyptian. This book provides a comprehensive description of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155619224X
• ISBN13: 9781556192241
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 310 Pages