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Swahili
Swahili

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Countries

Countries

African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

47
0 46
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National Language

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

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Council for German Orthography

Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Derived From

Arabic Language
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2426
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

510
0 32
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How Many Consonants

219
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Habari
hallo

Thank You

Asante
Danke

How Are You?

Habari gani?
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

Usiku mwema
gute Nacht

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
guten Tag

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
guten Morgen

Please

tafadhali
bitte

Sorry

pole
Verzeihung

Bye

bye
Tschüs

I Love You

nakupenda
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

Samahani
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kimrima
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
Germany

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Texas German

Where They Speak

Kilwa
Texas

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1228
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

swahili
allemand

German Name

Swahili
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Germans

History

Origin

6th century
6th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Germanic

Branch

Bantu
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Swahili
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

219
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
deu

ISO 639 2/B

swa
ger

ISO 639 3

swa
deu

ISO 639 6

swa
deus

Glottocode

swah1254
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Fusional, Synthetic

Swahili and German Alphabets

Swahili and German Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and German. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in German Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Swahili and German languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and German 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 German greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and German are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and German Speaking population

Swahili and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and German languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Swahili vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and German Language Codes

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