Somali (Somali: Soomaali, Arabic: الصوماليون) are an ethnic group located in the Horn of Africa, also known as the Somali Peninsula. The overwhelming majority of Somalis speak the Somali language, which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Ethnic Somalis number around 15-17 million and are principally concentrated in Somalia (more than 9 million[1]), Ethiopia (4.6 million[2]), Yemen (a little under 1 million), northeastern Kenya (2,7 million), Djibouti (350,000), and an unknown but large number live in parts of the Middle East, North America and Europe.
- ^ CIA World Factbook: Somalia, people and Map of the Somalia Ethnic groups (CIA according de Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection). The first gives 15% non-Somalis and the second 6%. Used 90% of current population of Somalia.
- ^ Ethiopian Central Statistical Agency. "2007 Ethiopian census, first draft" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-05-06.
