Arabic vs Somali - Language

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Learn Arabic

Justlearn has 33 Arabic tutors, who can teach online through video lessons. The average hourly rate is $17.73.
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Learn Somali

Justlearn has 2 Somali tutors, who can teach online through video lessons. The average hourly rate is $15.50.
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Arabic Language

Mastering Arabic will take from you 2200 hours or 88 weeks in a class according to FSI. Difficulty category for mastering it is evaluated 3 point.

Somali Language

Learning Somali might seem like a overwhelming thing to do. FSI has concluded that it takes 1100 hours or 44 weeks in a class to learn the language. The difficulty point is 2.

Arabic Community

You will most likely find people, who speaks Arabic in Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Mauritania, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
Number of native speakers is about 15,000,000.
Number of fluent speakers is about 10,000,000. The biggest country in which Arabic is used as a native language is Saudi Arabia.

Somali Community

Native speakers of Somali are mostly from Somalia and are about 8,300,000 people.
Somali are spoken fluently by 16,600,000 people.
The language is spoken in Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Yemen, Kenya, Djibouti, and by the Somali diaspora.

Arabic Origin

Arabic came from Semitic family of languages.

Somali Origin

East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family is the origin of Somali language.