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Swahili
Swahili

Persian
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Countries

Countries

African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan

Total No. Of Countries

43
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

Regulated By

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan

Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.

Similar To

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Pashto and Balochi Languages

Derived From

Arabic Language
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2432
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

56
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2123
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

-
Right-To-Left, 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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Greetings

Hello

Habari
سلام

Thank You

Asante
متشکرم

How Are You?

Habari gani?
چطور هستید?

Good Night

Usiku mwema
شب بخیر

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
عصر بخیر

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
بعد از ظهر بخیر

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
صبح به خیر

Please

tafadhali
لطفا

Sorry

pole
متاسف

Bye

bye
خدا حافظ

I Love You

nakupenda
من شما را دوست دارم

Excuse Me

Samahani
ببخشيد!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Western Persian

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
Iran, Iraq

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kimrima
Dari Persian

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
Afganistan

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.0012,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Tajik Persian

Where They Speak

Kilwa
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.007,900,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1212
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million65.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.99 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million65.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million110.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
فارسی

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian

French Name

swahili
persan

German Name

Swahili
Persisch

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Persian people

History

Origin

6th century
1500 BC

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Bantu
Iranian

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian

Standard Forms

Swahili
Persian

Language Position

2123
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
Persian Sign Language

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
fa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
fas

ISO 639 2/B

swa
per

ISO 639 3

swa
pes

ISO 639 6

swa
pers

Glottocode

swah1254
fars1254

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
58-AAC-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Synthetic

Swahili and Persian Alphabets

Swahili and Persian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Persian. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Persian Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Swahili and Persian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Persian 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 Persian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Persian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Persian Speaking population

Swahili and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Swahili vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Persian Language Codes

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