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Countries

Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

74
0 46
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National Language

Germany
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

Interesting Facts

  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

Albanian Languages
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2624
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

921
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

hallo
Habari

Thank You

Danke
Asante

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?
Habari gani?

Good Night

gute Nacht
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

guten Abend
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

guten Tag
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

guten Morgen
Habari za asubuhi

Please

bitte
tafadhali

Sorry

Verzeihung
pole

Bye

Tschüs
bye

I Love You

Ich liebe dich
nakupenda

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Switzerland
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Swabian German
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Germany
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

820,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Texas German
Kimgao

Where They Speak

Texas
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

6,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2812
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

101.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Deutsch
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

allemand
swahili

German Name

Deutsch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Germans
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

6th Century AD
6th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Germanic
Benue-Congo

Branch

Western
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Swahili

Language Position

921
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed German
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

de
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu
swa

ISO 639 2/B

ger
swa

ISO 639 3

deu
swa

ISO 639 6

deus
swa

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397
swah1254

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
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German and Swahili Alphabets

German and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Swahili. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn German and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Swahili languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

All German 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 German and Swahili dialects. Various dialects of German and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

German and Swahili Speaking population

German and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of German and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % 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 German and Swahili on German vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Swahili Language Codes

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