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Swahili
Swahili

Estonian
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Countries

Countries

African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Estonia, European Union

Total No. Of Countries

42
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Estonia, Gambia

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
Denmark, Russia, Sweden

Regulated By

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Institute of the Estonian Language

Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
  • Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.

Similar To

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Finnish

Derived From

Arabic Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2427
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

59
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2118
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

32
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Habari
Tere

Thank You

Asante
aitäh

How Are You?

Habari gani?
kuidas sul läheb

Good Night

Usiku mwema
Head ööd

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
Tere õhtust

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
Tere päevast

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
Tere hommikust

Please

tafadhali
Palun

Sorry

pole
Vabandust

Bye

bye
Head aega

I Love You

nakupenda
ma armastan sind

Excuse Me

Samahani
Vabandage

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Keskmurre

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.001,300,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kimrima
Tartu

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
Georgia, South Estonia

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.001,300,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Idamurre

Where They Speak

Kilwa
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.001,300,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

128
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million1.10 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.03 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million0.95 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million1.10 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
eesti keel

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Eesti keel

French Name

swahili
estonien

German Name

Swahili
Estnisch

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Estonians

History

Origin

6th century
13th century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Finno-Ugric

Branch

Bantu
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Swahili
Estonian

Language Position

2122
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
Estonian Sign Language

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
et

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
est

ISO 639 2/B

swa
est

ISO 639 3

swa
est

ISO 639 6

swa
est

Glottocode

swah1254
esto1258

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Agglutinative

Swahili and Estonian Alphabets

Swahili and Estonian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Estonian. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Estonian Alphabets there are 27 letters. To learn Swahili and Estonian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Estonian 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 Estonian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Estonian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Estonian Speaking population

Swahili and Estonian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Estonian languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Estonian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Estonian language is 0.03 %. 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 Estonian on Swahili vs Estonian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Estonian Language Codes

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