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Swahili
Swahili

Polish
Polish



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Countries

Countries

African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
European Union, Poland

Total No. Of Countries

42
0 46
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National Language

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

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, England, Lithuania, Slovakia, Ukraine

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Polish Language Council (Rada Języka Polskiego)

Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • Polish Language has many loanwords from Russian, Czech, French, Italian, Hebrew and German Languages.
  • The earliest writings found in polish language was list of persons and place names, is dated to 1136.

Similar To

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Czech, Slovak, Serbian Languages

Derived From

Arabic Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2432
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

59
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2123
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

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Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Habari
cześć

Thank You

Asante
dziękuję

How Are You?

Habari gani?
Jak się masz?

Good Night

Usiku mwema
dobranoc

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
dobry wieczór

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
dzień dobry

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
Dzień dobry

Please

tafadhali
proszę

Sorry

pole
Przepraszam

Bye

bye
do widzenia

I Love You

nakupenda
kocham Cię

Excuse Me

Samahani
przepraszam

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Kashubian

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
Poland

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.00108,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kimrima
Masovian

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
Poland

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.0045,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Silesian

Where They Speak

Kilwa
Czech Republic, Poland

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.00510,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1234
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million40.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.61 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million40.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million40.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
Polski

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Polnisch, Polski

French Name

swahili
polonais

German Name

Swahili
Polnisch

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
[ˈpɔlski]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Poles

History

Origin

6th century
1270

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Slavic

Branch

Bantu
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Polish and Middle Polish

Standard Forms

Swahili
Polish

Language Position

2124
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
System Językowo-Migowy (SJM) (Signed Polish)

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
pl

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
pol

ISO 639 2/B

swa
pol

ISO 639 3

swa
pol

ISO 639 6

swa
pols

Glottocode

swah1254
poli1260

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
53-AAA-cc

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Fusional, Synthetic

Swahili and Polish Alphabets

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

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

Swahili and Polish Speaking population

Swahili and Polish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Polish languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Polish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Polish language is 0.61 %. 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 Polish on Swahili vs Polish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Polish Language Codes

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