One Somali language class was offered last winter. “We had so much demand we ran two,” Lewiston Adult Education Director Eva Giles said. As those classes were to end, ...

Somali is a major language — spoken by 15 million people — but the fair's founders argue that speaking alone can't bind a people scattered around the world as well as literature can.

A: Somali is one of the top languages spoken here in the St. Cloud area. We estimate about 10,000 Somali people live in central Minnesota and it's very important that we show we value their ...

"The Somali language existed thousands of years without being written, it held on against other neighboring languages, and the reason is because of the literature." ...

On Dec. 1, the school board approved adding Somali I and Ojibwe I to its world languages curriculum, joining the ranks of French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese and American Sign Language. Both Somali ...

Somali and other Afro-Asiatic language speakers increased by a little over 2,000 from 25,051 to 27,074. The amount of Arabic speakers nearly doubled from 2019 to 2022, jumping from 8,437 to 15,285.

She says basic Somali language skills will help her with her after-school programming. “Now when the kids try and teach me words I’ll know they’re not swear words,” she jokes.