Somali vs Swahili - Language

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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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Learn Swahili

Justlearn has 10 Swahili tutors, who can teach online through video lessons. The average hourly rate is $17.60.
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Somali Language

Mastering Somali will take from you 1100 hours or 44 weeks in a class according to FSI. Difficulty category for mastering it is evaluated 2 point.

Swahili Language

Learning Swahili might seem like a overwhelming thing to do. FSI has concluded that it takes 36 hours or 900 weeks in a class to learn the language. The difficulty point is -.

Somali Community

You will most likely find people, who speaks Somali in Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Yemen, Kenya, Djibouti, and by the Somali diaspora.
Number of native speakers is about 8,300,000.
Number of fluent speakers is about 16,600,000. The biggest country in which Somali is used as a native language is Somalia.

Swahili Community

Native speakers of Swahili are mostly from African Great Lakes countries (Kenya, Tanzania, and the DRC) and are about 5,000,000 people.
Swahili are spoken fluently by 140,000,000 people.
The language is spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bajuni Islands, Mozambique (mostly Mwani), Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda,Comoros, Mayotte, Zambia, Malawi, and Madagascar.

Somali Origin

Somali came from East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.

Swahili Origin

Bantu language a subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family is the origin of Swahili language.