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Countries

Countries

Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

France, Spain
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

Interesting Facts

  • The Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Spanish
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2724
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2121
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kaixo
Habari

Thank You

Eskerrik asko
Asante

How Are You?

Zer moduz?
Habari gani?

Good Night

Gabon
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

Arratsalde on
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

Arratsalde on
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

Egun on
Habari za asubuhi

Please

Mesedez
tafadhali

Sorry

Barkatu
pole

Bye

Agur
bye

I Love You

Maite zaitut
nakupenda

Excuse Me

Barkatu
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Navarro-Lapurdian
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

France
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

68,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Souletin
Kimrima

Where They Speak

France, Soule, Spain
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

8,700.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Biscayan
Kimgao

Where They Speak

Spain
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

750,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

612
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.20 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.12 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.20 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Euskara
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

basque
swahili

German Name

Baskisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[bɑːsk]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Basque people
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

c. 1000
6th century

Language Family

Vasconic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

-
Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
No early forms

Standard Forms

Basque
Swahili

Language Position

3021
1 120
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Signed Forms

Basque Sign Language
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

-
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

eu
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

eus
swa

ISO 639 2/B

baq
swa

ISO 639 3

eus
swa

ISO 639 6

eus
swa

Glottocode

basq1248
swah1254

Linguasphere

40-AAA-a
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

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Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
-

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
-

Basque and Swahili Alphabets

Basque and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Basque and Swahili. In Basque Alphabets there are 27 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Basque and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Basque and Swahili languages. The Basque phonology consist Basque vowels and Basque consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Basque greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Basque and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

All Basque and Swahili Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Basque and Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Basque and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Basque are spoken in different Basque Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Basque vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Basque dialects include: Navarro-Lapurdian, Souletin. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Basque and Swahili Speaking population

Basque and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Basque and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Basque and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Basque language is 0.12 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Basque and Swahili on Basque vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Basque and Swahili Language Codes

Basque and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Basque and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.