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Somali is hard to learn, and it takes about 44 weeks (or 1100 class hours) to achieve “Professional Working Proficiency.” According to the Foreign Service Institute, Somali is a category III “hard” language – only category IV “super-hard” languages are more difficult than category III languages.
Rosetta Stone does not offer Somali, and Duolingo does not include it on their roadmap. I found a couple of books online.
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In difficulty, Somali can stand its ground against the hardest languages. Yet the Foreign Service Institute puts Somali in category 2, where 3 is the hardest.
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Somali has been written with a number of different scripts, including an Arabic-based abjad known as Wadaad's writing, a Latin-based alphabet and the Borama, Osmanya and Kaddare alphabets. The current official script for Somali is the Latin alphabet.
Somali is the best-documented of the Cushitic languages, with academic studies of the language dating back to the late 19th century.