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Somali is recognized as an official working language in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.

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Additionally, other state-run public networks like Somaliland National TV, regional public networks such as Puntland TV and Radio and, as well as Eastern Television Network and Horn Cable Television, among other private broadcasters, air programs in Somali. The state-run Radio Mogadishu has also broadcast in Somali since 1943. Concurrently, the Italian-language daily newspaper Stella d'Ottobre ('The October Star') was nationalized, renamed to Xiddigta Oktoobar, and began publishing in Somali. In 1972, the SRC adopted a Latin orthography as the official national alphabet over several other writing scripts that were then in use. It later expanded to include all 12 forms in 1979. Somali was thereafter established as the main language of academic instruction in forms 1 through 4, following preparatory work by the government-appointed Somali Language Committee. Somali has been an official national language since January 1973, when the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) declared it the Somali Democratic Republic's primary language of administration and education. Official status Д¬onstitutionally, Somali and Arabic are the two official languages of Somalia. ДЇollowing the start of the Somali Civil War in the early 1990s, the Somali-speaking diaspora increased in size, with newer Somali speech communities forming in parts of the Middle East, North America and Europe. The language is spoken by an estimated 95% of the country's inhabitants, and also by a majority of the population in Djibouti. ДЄs of 2019, there were approximately 21.8 million speakers of Somali, spread in Greater Somalia of which around 7.8 million resided in Somalia. Somali is the most widely spoken Cushitic language in the region followed by Oromo and Afar. It is also spoken as an adoptive language by a few ethnic minority groups and individuals in Somali majority regions. The Somali language is spoken in Somali inhabited areas of Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Yemen and by members of the Somali diaspora. Somali is the best-documented of the Cushitic languages, with academic studies of the language dating back to the late 19th century.

Somali is classified within the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family, specifically, Lowland East Cushitic in addition to Afar and Saho. Main articles: Afroasiatic languages and Cushitic languages

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