Language code: so
Technical information about ISO 639 language code so
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The table below provides technical details for the Somali language, designated by the so code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
Somali belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family, more specifically to the Cushitic subgroup. It is one of the official languages of Somalia and Somaliland, and is also used in some parts of Djibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia. It is written using the Latin script (Somali alphabet). It is estimated that there are around 23 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Somali speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
Related locale codes
so-DJ – Somali (Djibouti)
so-ET – Somali (Ethiopia)
so-KE – Somali (Kenya)
so-SO – Somali (Somalia)
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ