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
-
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
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Kimgao
Where They Speak
-
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
140,000.0075,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
012
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million150.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
14.10 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-75.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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