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African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
4
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
    Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
    Arabic Language
     
    Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
    24
    5
    21
    Latin
    -
    3
    36 weeks
     
    Habari
    Asante
    Habari gani?
    Usiku mwema
    Habari za jioni
    nzuri Alasiri
    Habari za asubuhi
    tafadhali
    pole
    bye
    nakupenda
    Samahani
     
    Kiunguja
    Zanzibar island
    75,000,000.00
    Kimrima
    Dar es Salaam
    75,000,000.00
    Kimgao
    Kilwa
    75,000,000.00
    12
     
    150.00 million
    0.42 %
    15.00 million
    75.00 million
    Kiswahili
    Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
    swahili
    Swahili
    [swaˈhili]
    Swahili people or Waswahili
     
    6th century
    Niger-Congo Family
    Benue-Congo
    Bantu
    No early forms
    Swahili
    21
    Swahili Sign Language
    Individual, Macrolanguage
     
    sw
    swa
    swa
    swa
    swa
    swah1254
    99-AUS-m
    Living
    -
    -
     
    Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
    23
    Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
    Not spoken in any of the countries
    Africa, Asia
    Not spoken in any of the countries
    Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
    • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
    • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
    Amharic and Hebrew
    -
     
    Arabic.jpg#200
    28
    8
    28
    Arabic
    Right-To-Left, Horizontal
    4
    88 weeks
     
    مرحبا
    شكرا
    كيف حالك؟
    تصبح على خير
    مساء الخير
    مساء الخير
    صباح الخير
    من فضلك
    آسف
    وداعا
    أحبك
    اعذرني
     
    Maghrebi
    Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
    310,000,000.00
    Sudanese
    Sudan
    17,000,000.00
    Levantine
    Cyprus, Levant
    21,000,000.00
    26
     
    452.00 million
    4.43 %
    206.00 million
    246.00 million
    (al arabiya) العربية
    Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
    arabe
    Arabisch
    /al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
    Arabs
     
    512 CE
    Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
    Semitic
    North Arabic
    No early forms
    Modern Standard Arabic
    25
    Signed Arabic
    Macrolanguage
     
    ar
    ara
    ara
    ara
    ara
    arab1395
    12-AAC
    Living
    Subject-Verb-Object
    Fusional, Synthetic

    Swahili and Arabic Alphabets

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

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

    Swahili and Arabic Speaking population

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

    Swahili and Arabic Language Codes

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