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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
    -
    -
     
    Hong Kong, Macau
    2
    China, Guangdong
    Not spoken in any of the countries
    Asia
    Hawaii
    Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
    • Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
    • Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
    Chinese Language
    -
     
    Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
    28
    8
    20
    Chinese Characters and derivatives
    Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
    10
    88 weeks
     
    您好
    谢谢
    你好吗?
    晚安
    晚上好
    下午好
    早上好
    遗憾
    再见
    我爱你
    原谅我
     
    Guangzhou
    outside mainland China
    71,000,000.00
    Xiguan
    Hong Kong
    71,000,000.00
    Hong Kong
    Hong Kong
    70,000,000.00
    3
     
    60.00 million
    16.00 %
    52.00 million
    71.00 million
    Kwang Tung Wa
    Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
    cantonais
    Kantonesisch
    [kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
    Han Chinese
     
    17th century
    Sino-Tibetan Family
    -
    -
    No early forms
    Standard Cantonese
    1
    Signed Cantonese
    -
     
    No data available
    yue
    yue
    No data available
    yue
    cant1236
    No data available
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    -
    -

    Swahili and Cantonese Alphabets

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

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

    Swahili and Cantonese Speaking population

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

    Swahili and Cantonese Language Codes

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