Audio bible, Listen an audio clip. Search function Share to social media like facebook and email. It's Free. Version Information The Somali language is spoken by approximately 12 million people, both in the Horn of Africa [Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, eastern Ethiopia, northeastern Kenya] as well as a growing Diaspora across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and Australia. The initial translation was completed in 1979, and what is presented here is a revision completed by SIM in 2008. The history of this translation work is described in Chapter 31 of “The Hardest Place. The biography of Warren and Dorothy Modricker” [Miller, Helen. 2006. Guardian Books, Belleville, ON, Canada].