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Swahili
Swahili

Croatian
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Countries

Countries

African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia

Total No. Of Countries

49
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Austria

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania

Regulated By

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics

Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
  • Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.

Similar To

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Serbain and Bosnian

Derived From

Arabic Language
Church Slavonic

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2430
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2125
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

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
bok

Thank You

Asante
hvala

How Are You?

Habari gani?
kako si

Good Night

Usiku mwema
laku noć

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
dobra večer

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
dobar dan

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
dobro jutro

Please

tafadhali
molim

Sorry

pole
Oprostite

Bye

bye
Doviđenja

I Love You

nakupenda
Volim te

Excuse Me

Samahani
Ispričavam se

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
Croatia

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.00660,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kimrima
Chakavian

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
Croatia

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Shtokavian

Where They Speak

Kilwa
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.0013,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1279
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million89.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %89.00 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million5.60 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million1.25 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
hrvatski

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Hrvatski

French Name

swahili
croate

German Name

Swahili
Kroatisch

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Croats

History

Origin

6th century
9th century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
-

Branch

Bantu
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Swahili
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian

Language Position

2123
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
hr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
hrv

ISO 639 2/B

swa
hrv

ISO 639 3

swa
hrv

ISO 639 6

swa
hrv

Glottocode

swah1254
croa1245

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
part of 53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Swahili and Croatian Alphabets

Swahili and Croatian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Croatian. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Croatian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Swahili and Croatian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Croatian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Croatian Speaking population

Swahili and Croatian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Croatian languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Croatian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Croatian language is 89.00 %. 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 Croatian on Swahili vs Croatian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Croatian Language Codes

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