Regional Somali Language Academy information

The Regional Somali Language Academy (RSLA) is an intergovernmental regulating body for the Somali language in the Horn region. As of February 2015, it...

national level. Somali is the official language of Somalia and as the mother tongue of the Somali people, is also its endoglossic language. It is a member...

Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch. It is spoken as a mother tongue by Somalis in Greater Somalia and the Somali diaspora. Somali is an official...

The languages of Djibouti include Afar, Arabic, Somali and French. Somali and Afar are the most widely spoken tongues, and Arabic and French serve as...

scholars of Somali, including Musa Haji Ismail Galal, B. W. Andrzejewski and Shire Jama Ahmed specifically for transcribing the Somali language, and is based...

transcribe the Somali language. Of these, the Somali Latin alphabet is the most widely used. It has been the official writing script in Somalia since the Supreme...

consider themselves to be authorities on standard languages, often called language academies. Language academies are motivated by, or closely associated with...

compete with other regional markets. The Regional Somali Language Academy is an intergovernmental regulating body for the Somali language in the Horn region...

Issas from 1884 to 1977. The Regional Somali Language Academy is an intergovernmental regulating body for the Somali language in the Horn region. On 28 June...

Sheikh Mohamud (Somali; Xasan Sheekh Maxamuud; born 29 November 1955) is a Somali politician who has served as the president of Somalia since May 2022...

The Somali Civil War (Somali: Dagaalkii Sokeeye ee Soomaaliya; Arabic: الحرب الأهلية الصومالية al-ḥarb al-’ahliyya aṣ-ṣūmāliyya) is an ongoing civil war...

and supported Somali insurgents against Kenya. In 1946 the Somali Youth League selected Harar as the future capital of Greater Somalia and subsequently...

Somalia (Somali: Soomaaliya; aṣ-Ṣūmāl), officially the Federal Republic of Somalia (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya, Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmāl al-Fideraaliya)...

Piracy off the coast of Somalia occurs in the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel, and Somali Sea, in Somali territorial waters and other surrounding places...

with previous Somali administrations, the Transitional Federal Charter of the Somali Republic recognized Mogadishu as the capital of Somalia. The Transitional...

The Madhiban (Somali: Madhibaan), also known as Gaboye, are an artisanal caste among Somali people. They have been endogamous, and their traditional hereditary...

pillars of Somali culture. Somali poetry is mainly oral, with both male and female poets. They use things that are common in the Somali language as metaphors...

have a language (a dialect of Somali) they keep secret from the ruling Somali clans. Although Muslims and ethnically similar to other Somalis, the Yibir...

new writing system for the Somali language, and anti-tribalism. The Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party became Somalia's vanguard party in 1976, and...

Muhyadin Addow, (born in 1960 Mogadishu, Somalia) is a Somali military general and Incumbent Chief of Defence Force Somali National Army. Major General Ibrahim...

The Darod (Somali: Daarood, Arabic: دارود) is a Somali clan. The forefather of this clan was Sheikh Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti, more commonly known...

have all named the language differently. In Somalia, Northern Somali (or North-Central Somali) forms the basis for Standard Somali, particularly the Mudug...

war in Somalia led to a large number of Somali immigrants, comprising the majority of the current Somali population in the UK. British Somalis are one...

sent by Somalis-based abroad to relatives in Somalia. This accounts for 20%-50% of the Somali economy. Dahabshiil is the largest of the Somali money transfer...

The Somali Police Force (SPF; Somali: Ciidanka Booliska Soomaaliya (CBS); Arabic: قوة الشرطة الصومالية, romanized: Qūwat al-Shurṭah al-Ṣūmālīyah) is the...

known as the Somali peninsula or, in the Somali language, Geeska Afrika, Jasiiradda Soomaali or Gacandhulka Soomaali. In other local languages, it is called...

The Majeerteen (Somali: Majeerteen, Arabic: ماجرتين; also spelled Majerteen, Macherten, Majertain, or Mijurtin) is a prominent Somali sub-clan of the...

Faisal Hawar; Somali Public Radio Person of the Year 2012". Somali Public Radio. 13 January 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2014. Somalia: Somaliland naval...

The Isaaq (also Ishaak, Isaac) (Somali: Reer Sheekh Isxaaq) is a major Somali clan family. It is one of the largest Somali clan families in the Horn of Africa...