Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Dzongkha Development Commission
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2495
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2130
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Habari
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
Asante
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
Habari gani?
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
Usiku mwema
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
tafadhali
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
pole
Tsip maza
Bye
bye
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
nakupenda
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
Samahani
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Laya
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kimrima
Lunana
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimgao
Adap
Where They Speak
Kilwa
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
124
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
75.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kiswahili
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
swahili
dzongkha
German Name
Swahili
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[swaˈhili]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Ngalop people
Origin
6th century
17th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Swahili
Dzongkha
Language Position
2131
1
120
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Signed Forms
Swahili Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
sw
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swa
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
swa
dzo
ISO 639 3
swa
dzo
ISO 639 6
swa
dzo
Glottocode
swah1254
nucl1307
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-