Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
European Union, Finland
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
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Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
How Are You?
Habari gani?
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
Usiku mwema
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
Hyvää huomenta
I Love You
nakupenda
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
Samahani
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Finland
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Finland, Rauma
Dialect 3
Kimgao
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
Kilwa
Finland, Sweden
Native Name
Kiswahili
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Suomi
French Name
swahili
finnois
German Name
Swahili
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[swaˈhili]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
ethnic Finns
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Finno-Ugric
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Swahili
standard Finnish
Signed Forms
Swahili Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
swah1254
finn1318
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative, Synthetic
All Swahili and Finnish 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 Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Swahili and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Swahili are spoken in different Swahili Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Swahili vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja, Kimrima. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Swahili and Finnish Speaking population
Swahili and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. 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 Finnish on Swahili vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Swahili and Finnish Language Codes
Swahili and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swahili and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.