Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Georgia
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Cabinet of Georgia
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2433
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2128
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Habari
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
Asante
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
Habari gani?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
Usiku mwema
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
tafadhali
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
pole
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
nakupenda
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
Samahani
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kimrima
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Kartli
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kimgao
Pshavian
Where They Speak
Kilwa
Pshavi
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.004,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1220
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
150.00 million4.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.42 %0.64 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million4.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
75.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kiswahili
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
swahili
géorgien
German Name
Swahili
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[swaˈhili]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Georgians
Origin
6th century
5th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Southern
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Swahili
Modern Georgian
Language Position
21120
1
120
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Signed Forms
Swahili Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
sw
ka
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swa
kat
ISO 639 2/B
swa
geo
ISO 639 3
swa
kat
ISO 639 6
swa
kat
Glottocode
swah1254
nucl1302
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic