Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Habari
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Asante
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Habari gani?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Usiku mwema
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
tafadhali
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
pole
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
nakupenda
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Samahani
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Kimrima
Olonets
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Olonets
Dialect 3
Kimgao
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Kilwa
Novgorod
Native Name
Kiswahili
Русский
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Russki
French Name
swahili
russe
German Name
Swahili
Russisch
Pronunciation
[swaˈhili]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Russians
Origin
6th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Swahili
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Swahili Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
Glottocode
swah1254
russ1263
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic
Swahili and Russian Speaking population
Swahili and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Swahili vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Swahili and Russian Language Codes
Swahili and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swahili and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.