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Swahili

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Countries

Countries

African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine

Total No. Of Countries

46
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Moldova, Romania

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Russia

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li

Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
  • The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.

Similar To

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.

Derived From

Arabic Language
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2431
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

57
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2120
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 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Habari
alo

Thank You

Asante
multumesc

How Are You?

Habari gani?
ce mai faci?

Good Night

Usiku mwema
noapte Buna

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
buna Seara

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
buna Ziua

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
bună Dimineața

Please

tafadhali
Vă Rog

Sorry

pole
scuze

Bye

bye
La revedere

I Love You

nakupenda
Te iubesc

Excuse Me

Samahani
Scuza-Ma

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Aromanian

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.00250,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kimrima
Megleno-Romanian

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.005,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Istro-Romanian

Where They Speak

Kilwa
Croatia

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.001,400.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

1210
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million28.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.37 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million24.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million4.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
Română

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian

French Name

swahili
roumain; moldave

German Name

Swahili
Rumänisch

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
[roˈmɨnə]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Romanians

History

Origin

6th century
1521

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
-

Branch

Bantu
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Romanian

Standard Forms

Swahili
Romanian

Language Position

2136
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
Romanian Sign Language

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
ro

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
ron

ISO 639 2/B

swa
rum

ISO 639 3

swa
ron

ISO 639 6

swa
ron

Glottocode

swah1254
roma1327

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
51-AAD-c

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

-
Synthetic

Swahili and Romanian Alphabets

Swahili and Romanian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Romanian. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Romanian Alphabets there are 31 letters. To learn Swahili and Romanian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Romanian 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 Romanian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Romanian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Romanian Speaking population

Swahili and Romanian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Romanian languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Romanian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Romanian language is 0.37 %. 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 Romanian on Swahili vs Romanian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Romanian Language Codes

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