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Countries

Countries

Japan
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

14
0 46
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National Language

Japan
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, Pacific
Africa

Minority Language

Palau
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

Interesting Facts

  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Korean Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9924
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1421
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Habari

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
Asante

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Habari gani?

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
Habari za asubuhi

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
tafadhali

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
pole

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
bye

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
nakupenda

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Kimgao

Where They Speak

kansai
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3112
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

japonais
swahili

German Name

Japanisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

1185
6th century

Language Family

Japonic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

-
Benue-Congo

Branch

-
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Japanese
Swahili

Language Position

821
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
swa

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
swa

ISO 639 3

jpn
swa

ISO 639 6

jpn
swa

Glottocode

nucl1643
swah1254

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Japanese and Swahili Alphabets

Japanese and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Swahili. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Japanese and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Swahili languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Japanese and Swahili Speaking population

Japanese and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Swahili on Japanese vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Swahili Language Codes

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