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African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
4
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
    Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
    Arabic Language
     
    Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
    24
    5
    21
    Latin
    -
    3
    36 weeks
     
    Habari
    Asante
    Habari gani?
    Usiku mwema
    Habari za jioni
    nzuri Alasiri
    Habari za asubuhi
    tafadhali
    pole
    bye
    nakupenda
    Samahani
     
    Kiunguja
    Zanzibar island
    75,000,000.00
    Kimrima
    Dar es Salaam
    75,000,000.00
    Kimgao
    Kilwa
    75,000,000.00
    12
     
    150.00 million
    0.42 %
    15.00 million
    75.00 million
    Kiswahili
    Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
    swahili
    Swahili
    [swaˈhili]
    Swahili people or Waswahili
     
    6th century
    Niger-Congo Family
    Benue-Congo
    Bantu
    No early forms
    Swahili
    21
    Swahili Sign Language
    Individual, Macrolanguage
     
    sw
    swa
    swa
    swa
    swa
    swah1254
    99-AUS-m
    Living
    -
    -
     
    Sri Lanka
    1
    Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka
    Asia
    Not spoken in any of the countries
    Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
    • In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
    • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
    Maldivian Language
    Sanskrit Language
     
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    54
    18
    36
    Sinhala alphabet
    Left-To-Right, Horizontal
    2
    44 weeks
     
    හලෝ (halō)
    ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
    ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
    සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
    සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
    සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
    සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
    කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
    සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
    බායි (bāyi)
    මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
    මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
     
    Vedda
    Sri Lanka
    19,000,000.00
    Sri Lankan Sinhala
    -
    19,000,000.00
    Up-Country Sinhalese
    -
    16,000,000.00
    1
     
    16.00 million
    0.25 %
    16.00 million
    2.00 million
    සිංහල (sĩhala)
    Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
    singhalais
    Singhalesisch
    [ˈsiŋhəliːz]
    Sinhalese people
     
    3
    Indo-European Family
    Indo-Iranian
    Indic
    Sinhalese Prakrit
    Modern Sinhalese
    70
    Signed Sinhalese
    Individual
     
    si
    sin
    sin
    sin
    sin
    sinh1246
    No data available
    Living
    Subject-Object-Verb
    Fusional

    Swahili and Sinhalese Alphabets

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

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

    Swahili and Sinhalese Speaking population

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

    Swahili and Sinhalese Language Codes

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