Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
National Language
Russia
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Habari
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
Asante
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Habari gani?
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Habari za asubuhi
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
tafadhali
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
pole
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
bye
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
Samahani
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Zanzibar island
Dialect 2
Olonets
Kimrima
Where They Speak
Olonets
Dar es Salaam
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Kimgao
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Kilwa
Native Name
Русский
Kiswahili
Alternative Names
Russki
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
russe
swahili
German Name
Russisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[swaˈhili]
Ethnicity
Russians
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
1000 AD
6th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Benue-Congo
Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Swahili
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Swahili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
Glottocode
russ1263
swah1254
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
99-AUS-m
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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Russian and Swahili Speaking population
Russian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Russian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Russian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 % 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 Russian and Swahili on Russian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Russian and Swahili Language Codes
Russian and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Russian and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.