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Swahili
Swahili

Japanese
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Countries

Countries

African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

41
0 46
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National Language

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

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Palau

Regulated By

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Korean Language

Derived From

Arabic Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2499
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2114
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Habari
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Asante
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Habari gani?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Usiku mwema
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

tafadhali
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

pole
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

nakupenda
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Samahani
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

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

Kimrima
Hakata

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Kansai

Where They Speak

Kilwa
kansai

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1231
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
日本語

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Nihongo

French Name

swahili
japonais

German Name

Swahili
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

6th century
1185

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
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Branch

Bantu
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Swahili
Japanese

Language Position

218
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

swa
jpn

ISO 639 3

swa
jpn

ISO 639 6

swa
jpn

Glottocode

swah1254
nucl1643

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Agglutinative, Synthetic

Swahili and Japanese Alphabets

Swahili and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Japanese. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Swahili and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Japanese Speaking population

Swahili and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Swahili vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Japanese Language Codes

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