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Sanskrit

Swahili
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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

14
0 46
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National Language

India
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
Africa

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

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Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

Interesting Facts

  • Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
  • Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Old German Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

Prakrit Language
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5224
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

165
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3621
9 60
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Scripts

Devanagari
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

20 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Habari

Thank You

धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Asante

How Are You?

कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Habari gani?

Good Night

शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

शुभः सायंकालः
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

शुभ दुपार
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Habari za asubuhi

Please

कृपया (kripayā)
tafadhali

Sorry

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
pole

Bye

पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
bye

I Love You

त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
nakupenda

Excuse Me

कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Not present
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

-
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

140,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Not present
Kimrima

Where They Speak

-
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

140,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Kimgao

Where They Speak

-
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

140,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

012
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

14.10 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.01 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

14.10 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

-75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

sanskrit
swahili

German Name

Sanskrit
Swahili

Pronunciation

[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Sanskrit speakers
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

2000 B.C.
6th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo

Branch

Indic
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms

Standard Forms

Sanskrit
Swahili

Language Position

2321
1 120
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Signed Forms

-
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

sa
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

san
swa

ISO 639 2/B

san
swa

ISO 639 3

san
swa

ISO 639 6

san
swa

Glottocode

sans1269
swah1254

Linguasphere

No data available
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Ancient
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
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Sanskrit and Swahili Alphabets

Sanskrit and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Sanskrit and Swahili. In Sanskrit Alphabets there are 52 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Sanskrit and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Sanskrit and Swahili languages. The Sanskrit phonology consist Sanskrit vowels and Sanskrit consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Sanskrit greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Sanskrit and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Sanskrit and Swahili Speaking population

Sanskrit and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sanskrit and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Sanskrit and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is 0.01 % 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 Sanskrit and Swahili on Sanskrit vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sanskrit and Swahili Language Codes

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