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Countries

Countries

Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

74
0 46
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National Language

Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

Interesting Facts

  • One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
  • Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

French and Portuguese Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

Latin
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2124
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1621
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

ciao
Habari

Thank You

grazie
Asante

How Are You?

Come stai?
Habari gani?

Good Night

buonanotte
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

buonasera
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

buon pomeriggio
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

buongiorno
Habari za asubuhi

Please

Per Favore
tafadhali

Sorry

scusate
pole

Bye

arrivederci
bye

I Love You

Ti amo
nakupenda

Excuse Me

Scusami
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Romanesco
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Lazio
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

3,000,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Central Italian
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

5,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Tuscan
Kimgao

Where They Speak

Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1512
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

78.00 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.90 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

64.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

14.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Italiano
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Italiano
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

italien
swahili

German Name

Italienisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[itaˈljaːno]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Italians
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

960 BC
6th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Romance
Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Italian
Swahili

Language Position

2721
1 120
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Signed Forms

italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

it
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ita
swa

ISO 639 2/B

ita
swa

ISO 639 3

ita
swa

ISO 639 6

itas
swa

Glottocode

ital1282
swah1254

Linguasphere

51-AAA-q
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic
-

Italian and Swahili Alphabets

Italian and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Italian and Swahili. In Italian Alphabets there are 21 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Italian and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Italian and Swahili languages. The Italian phonology consist Italian vowels and Italian consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Italian greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Italian and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Italian and Swahili Speaking population

Italian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Italian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Italian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Italian language is 0.90 % 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 Italian and Swahili on Italian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Italian and Swahili Language Codes

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