Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
45
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2426
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
524
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2123
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Habari
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Asante
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Habari gani?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Usiku mwema
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
tafadhali
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
pole
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
nakupenda
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Samahani
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kimrima
Wu
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kimgao
Yue
Where They Speak
Kilwa
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1210
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
150.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.42 %16.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
15.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
75.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kiswahili
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
swahili
chinois
German Name
Swahili
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[swaˈhili]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Han
Origin
6th century
1250 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Swahili
Standard Chinese
Language Position
211
1
120
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Signed Forms
Swahili Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
sw
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swa
zho
ISO 639 2/B
swa
chi
ISO 639 3
swa
zho
ISO 639 6
swa
zho
Glottocode
swah1254
sini1245
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating