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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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Rank: 11 (Overall)
5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 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.
    1.9 Similar To
    Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
    Not Available
    1.10 Derived From
    Arabic Language
    Not Available
    2 Alphabets
    2.1 Alphabets in
    2.2 Alphabets
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    24
    Rank: 6 (Overall)
    26
    Rank: 8 (Overall)
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    2.3 Phonology
    2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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    5
    Rank: 2 (Overall)
    24
    Rank: 19 (Overall)
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    2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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    21
    Rank: 11 (Overall)
    23
    Rank: 13 (Overall)
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    2.4 Scripts
    Latin
    Chinese Characters and derivatives
    2.5 Writing Direction
    Not Available
    Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
    2.6 Hard to Learn
    2.6.1 Language Levels
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    Rank: 2 (Overall)
    6
    Rank: 5 (Overall)
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    2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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    36 weeks
    Rank: 10 (Overall)
    88 weeks
    Rank: 13 (Overall)
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    3 Greetings
    3.1 Hello
    Habari
    您好 (Nín hǎo)
    3.2 Thank You
    Asante
    谢谢 (Xièxiè)
    3.3 How Are You?
    Habari gani?
    你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
    3.4 Good Night
    Usiku mwema
    晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
    3.5 Good Evening
    Habari za jioni
    晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
    3.6 Good Afternoon
    nzuri Alasiri
    下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
    3.7 Good Morning
    Habari za asubuhi
    早安 (Zǎo ān)
    3.8 Please
    tafadhali
    请 (Qǐng)
    3.9 Sorry
    pole
    遗憾 (Yíhàn)
    3.10 Bye
    bye
    再见 (Zàijiàn)
    3.11 I Love You
    nakupenda
    我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
    3.12 Excuse Me
    Samahani
    劳驾 (Láojià)
    4 Dialects
    4.1 Dialect 1
    Kiunguja
    Mandarin
    4.1.1 Where They Speak
    Zanzibar island
    China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
    4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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    Rank: N/A (Overall)
    960,000,000.00
    Rank: 1 (Overall)
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    4.2 Dialect 2
    Kimrima
    Wu
    4.2.1 Where They Speak
    Dar es Salaam
    China, United States of America
    4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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    Not Available
    Rank: N/A (Overall)
    80,000,000.00
    Rank: 1 (Overall)
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    4.3 Dialect 3
    Kimgao
    Yue
    4.3.1 Where They Speak
    Kilwa
    China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
    4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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    Rank: N/A (Overall)
    60,000,000.00
    Rank: 2 (Overall)
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    4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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    12
    Rank: 12 (Overall)
    10
    Rank: 10 (Overall)
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    5 How Many People Speak
    5.1 How Many People Speak?
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    150.00 million
    Rank: 13 (Overall)
    1,051.00 million
    Rank: 2 (Overall)
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    5.2 Speaking Population
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    Rank: N/A (Overall)
    16.00 %
    Rank: 2 (Overall)
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    5.3 Native Speakers
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    15.00 million
    Rank: 40 (Overall)
    873.00 million
    Rank: 1 (Overall)
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    5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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    Rank: N/A (Overall)
    178.00 million
    Rank: 3 (Overall)
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    5.3.2 Native Name
    Not Available
    中文 (zhōngwén)
    5.3.3 Alternative Names
    Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
    Not Available
    5.3.4 French Name
    swahili
    chinois
    5.3.5 German Name
    Swahili
    Chinesisch
    5.4 Pronunciation
    Not Available
    Not Available
    5.5 Ethnicity
    Swahili people or Waswahili
    Han
    6 History
    6.1 Origin
    6th century
    1250 BC
    6.2 Language Family
    Niger-Congo Family
    Sino-Tibetan Family
    6.2.1 Subgroup
    Benue-Congo
    Not Available
    6.2.2 Branch
    Bantu
    Not Available
    6.3 Language Forms
    6.3.1 Early Forms
    No early forms
    No early forms
    6.3.2 Standard Forms
    Swahili
    Standard Chinese
    6.3.3 Language Position
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    1
    Rank: 1 (Overall)
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    6.3.4 Signed Forms
    Not Available
    Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
    6.4 Scope
    Individual, Macrolanguage
    Individual
    7 Code
    7.1 ISO 639 1
    sw
    zh
    7.2 ISO 639 2
    7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
    swa
    zho
    7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
    swa
    chi
    7.3 ISO 639 3
    swa
    zho
    7.4 ISO 639 6
    Not Available
    Not Available
    7.5 Glottocode
    swah1254
    sini1245
    7.6 Linguasphere
    99-AUS-m
    79-AAA
    7.7 Types of Language
    7.7.1 Language Type
    Living
    Living
    7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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    Subject-Verb-Object
    7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
    Not Available
    Analytic, Isolating

    Swahili and Chinese Alphabets

    Swahili and Chinese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Chinese. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Swahili and Chinese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Chinese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

    Swahili and Chinese Speaking population

    Swahili and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. 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 Chinese on Swahili vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

    Swahili and Chinese Language Codes

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

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