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Swahili
Swahili

Sanskrit
Sanskrit



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Countries

Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries

41
0 46
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National Language

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

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

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

Regulated By

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
  • Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.

Similar To

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Old German Language

Derived From

Arabic Language
Prakrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2452
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

516
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2136
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Devanagari

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks20 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Habari
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)

Thank You

Asante
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)

How Are You?

Habari gani?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)

Good Night

Usiku mwema
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
शुभः सायंकालः

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
शुभ दुपार

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)

Please

tafadhali
कृपया (kripayā)

Sorry

pole
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)

Bye

bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)

I Love You

nakupenda
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)

Excuse Me

Samahani
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Not present

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
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How Many People Speak

75,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kimrima
Not present

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
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How Many People Speak

75,000,000.00140,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Not present

Where They Speak

Kilwa
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How Many People Speak

75,000,000.00140,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

120
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million14.10 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million14.10 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million-
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam

French Name

swahili
sanskrit

German Name

Swahili
Sanskrit

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Sanskrit speakers

History

Origin

6th century
2000 B.C.

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian

Branch

Bantu
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Vedic Sanskrit

Standard Forms

Swahili
Sanskrit

Language Position

2123
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
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Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
sa

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
san

ISO 639 2/B

swa
san

ISO 639 3

swa
san

ISO 639 6

swa
san

Glottocode

swah1254
sans1269

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Ancient

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

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Synthetic

Swahili and Sanskrit Alphabets

Swahili and Sanskrit Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Sanskrit. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Sanskrit Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Swahili and Sanskrit languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Sanskrit are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Sanskrit Speaking population

Swahili and Sanskrit speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Sanskrit languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Sanskrit Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is 0.01 %. 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 Sanskrit on Swahili vs Sanskrit where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Sanskrit Language Codes

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