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Swahili
Swahili

Serbian
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Countries

Countries

African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

44
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia

Regulated By

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language

Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.

Similar To

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Bosnian and Croatian Languages

Derived From

Arabic Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2430
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2125
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Habari
Здраво (Zdravo)

Thank You

Asante
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)

How Are You?

Habari gani?
Како си? (Kako si?)

Good Night

Usiku mwema
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
Добро вече (Dobro veče)

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
Добар дан (Dobar dan)

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)

Please

tafadhali
Молим (Molim)

Sorry

pole
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)

Bye

bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)

I Love You

nakupenda
Волим те (Volim te)

Excuse Me

Samahani
Извините (Izvinite)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Prizren-Timok

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
Southeastern Serbia

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kimrima
Smederevo–Vršac

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
Serbia

How Many People Speak

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

Kimgao
Torlakian

Where They Speak

Kilwa
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

123
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million8.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million8.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million12.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Montenegrin

French Name

swahili
serbe

German Name

Swahili
Serbisch

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
[sr̩̂pskiː]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Serbs

History

Origin

6th century
11th Century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
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Branch

Bantu
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Swahili
Standard Serbian

Language Position

2144
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
sr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
srp

ISO 639 2/B

swa
srp

ISO 639 3

swa
srp

ISO 639 6

swa
srp

Glottocode

swah1254
serb1264

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
53-AAA-g

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

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Swahili and Serbian Alphabets

Swahili and Serbian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Serbian. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Serbian Alphabets there are 30 letters. To learn Swahili and Serbian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Serbian 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 Serbian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Serbian are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Serbian Speaking population

Swahili and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 %. 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 Serbian on Swahili vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Serbian Language Codes

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