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Swahili
Swahili

Assamese
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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

41
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Bangladesh, India

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan

Regulated By

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Asam Sahitya Sabha

Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
  • Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.

Similar To

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Bengali and Oriya

Derived From

Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2452
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

511
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2141
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Bengali

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Habari
nomoskaar

Thank You

Asante
ḍhonyobaaḍ

How Are You?

Habari gani?
aapuni kene aase?

Good Night

Usiku mwema
subhoraattri

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
subha gadhuli

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
subha abeli

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
suprobhaat

Please

tafadhali
anugroha kori

Sorry

pole
moi ḍukkhita

Bye

bye
biḍai

I Love You

nakupenda
moi tomaak bhaalpaao

Excuse Me

Samahani
kyoma koribo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Kamrupi

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
Western Assam

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kimrima
Goalpariya

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
Western Assam

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.0016,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Bhakatiya

Where They Speak

Kilwa
Assam

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

123
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million15.30 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya

French Name

swahili
assamais

German Name

Swahili
Assamesisch

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Assamese people

History

Origin

6th century
7th century A.D

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Bantu
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Kamarupa

Standard Forms

Swahili
Assamese

Language Position

2165
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
Signed Assamese

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
as

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
asm

ISO 639 2/B

swa
asm

ISO 639 3

swa
asm

ISO 639 6

swa
asm

Glottocode

swah1254
assa1263

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
59-AAF-w

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
-

Swahili and Assamese Alphabets

Swahili and Assamese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Assamese. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Assamese Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Swahili and Assamese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Assamese 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 greetings vs Assamese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Assamese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Assamese Speaking population

Swahili and Assamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Assamese languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Assamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 %. 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 Assamese on Swahili vs Assamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Assamese Language Codes

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