• Hooyo: Somali-French dictionary & French-Somali dictionary
• Qaamuuska Af-Soomaaliga (Great omali dictionary), by Annarita Puglielli & Cabdalla Cumar Mansuur (2012)
• English-Somali phrasebook by topics (2000)
• Somali dictionary and phrasebook by Nicholas Awde (1989)
• Defense Language Institute: basic vocabulary (+ audio) - public affairs - medical
• Somali-English dictionary by Évangéliste de Larajasse (1897)
• A comparative review of some Tigrinya and Somali proverbs by Filip Busau, in Bildhaan, an international journal of Somali studies (2019)
• YouTube: Somali alphabet
• Beginning English for Somali speakers
• Le parcours solitaire de la Somalie by Didier Morin, in Des langues et des États, Politique africaine (1986)
• Étude linguistique et sociolinguistique de la variété du somali parlé par les jeunes Djiboutiens (Study of the variety of Somali spoken by young people in Djibouti) by Hawa Abdillahi Farah, thesis (2020) NEW
• Somali evaluative morphology by Nicola Lampitelli, in Handbook of evaluative morphology (2015)
• The decomposition of Somali nouns, in Brill's annual of Afroasiatic languages and linguistics (2013)
• À propos du comportement des verbes trilitères en somali by Xavier Barillot, in Corpus (2004)
• Grammar of the Somali language by John William Carnegie Kirk (1905)
• Notes on the Somali language with examples of phrases and conversational sentences, by John William Carnegie Kirk (1903)
• Practical grammar of the Somali language by Évangéliste de Larajasse & Cyprien de Sampont (1897)
In the 1920's, a Somali alphabet was created by Osman Yusuf Kenadid. It was replaced in the 1970's by the Latin alphabet.
→ Osmanya keyboard to type a text with the Osmanya script
• Short notes on Somali previous scripts by Mauro Tosco (2015)
• Somali language and linguistics: a bibliography, by Morgan Nilsson (2016)
• books in Somali
• A collection of Somali literature mainly from Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, by Muuse Galaal (1964)
• Die Somali-Sprache: Somali texts with translation into German, by Leo Reinisch (1900)
• Somali-Texte: Somali texts with translation into German, by Adolf Walter Schleicher (1900)
• L'oralité dans la littérature de la Corne de l'Afrique : traditions orales, formes et mythologies de la littérature pastorale, marques de l'oralité dans la littérature, by Moussa Souleiman Obsieh, thesis (2013)
• Représentations d'un scandale dans le théâtre somali des années 1970-1990 : les femmes dans la rue, by Fatouma Mahamoud Hadji Ali, in Cahiers de littérature orale (2019)
• Il teatro popolare somalo (1940-1990), by Cristina Ali Farah (2018)
• Folk songs from Somalia, collected and translated by Axmed Cartan Xaange (2014)
• Somali poetry: an introduction, by Bogumil Andrzejewski & Ioan Lewis (1964)
• Tanzil: translation of the Quran into Somali by Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
• The Coran: translation into Somali
• Bible.is: Kitaabka Quduuska, translation of the Bible into Somali (2007) (+ audio)
• WordProject: translation of the Bible into Somali (+ audio)
• BibleGateway: translation of the Bible into Somali
Aadanaha dhammaantiis wuxuu dhashaa isagoo xor ah kana siman xagga sharafta iyo xuquuqada
Waxaa Alle (Ilaah) siiyay aqoon iyo wacyi, waana in qof la arkaa qofka kale ula dhaqmaa si walaaltinimo ah.
→ Universal Declaration of Human Rights: bilingual text in Somali and other languages
The double vowels are long.
The Latin and Arabic conversion:
j | x | kh | c |
ﺝ | ﺡ | ﺥ | ﻉ |
nin, niman | man, men |
naag, naago | woman, women |
af | language, mouth |
waryaa ! | hello! |
nabad gelyo ! | good bye! |
nabad ku bari ! | good night! |
nabad | peace |
bari | day |
mahadsanid ! | thank you! |
bad | sea |