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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Sri Lanka
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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Rank: 11 (Overall)
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Rank: 14 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Sri Lanka
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
    • In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
    • Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
    1.9 Similar To
    Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
    Maldivian Language
    1.10 Derived From
    Arabic Language
    Sanskrit Language
    2 Alphabets
    2.1 Alphabets in
    2.2 Alphabets
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    24
    Rank: 6 (Overall)
    54
    Rank: 33 (Overall)
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    2.3 Phonology
    2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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    5
    Rank: 2 (Overall)
    18
    Rank: 15 (Overall)
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    2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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    21
    Rank: 11 (Overall)
    36
    Rank: 26 (Overall)
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    2.4 Scripts
    Latin
    Sinhala alphabet
    2.5 Writing Direction
    Not Available
    Left-To-Right, Horizontal
    2.6 Hard to Learn
    2.6.1 Language Levels
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    Rank: 2 (Overall)
    2
    Rank: 1 (Overall)
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    2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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    36 weeks
    Rank: 10 (Overall)
    44 weeks
    Rank: 11 (Overall)
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    3 Greetings
    3.1 Hello
    Habari
    හලෝ (halō)
    3.2 Thank You
    Asante
    ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
    3.3 How Are You?
    Habari gani?
    ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
    3.4 Good Night
    Usiku mwema
    සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
    3.5 Good Evening
    Habari za jioni
    සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
    3.6 Good Afternoon
    nzuri Alasiri
    සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
    3.7 Good Morning
    Habari za asubuhi
    සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
    3.8 Please
    tafadhali
    කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
    3.9 Sorry
    pole
    සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
    3.10 Bye
    bye
    බායි (bāyi)
    3.11 I Love You
    nakupenda
    මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
    3.12 Excuse Me
    Samahani
    මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
    4 Dialects
    4.1 Dialect 1
    Kiunguja
    Vedda
    4.1.1 Where They Speak
    Zanzibar island
    Sri Lanka
    4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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    4.2 Dialect 2
    Kimrima
    Not Available
    4.2.1 Where They Speak
    Dar es Salaam
    Not Available
    4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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    Not Available
    Rank: N/A (Overall)
    Not Available
    Rank: N/A (Overall)
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    4.3 Dialect 3
    Kimgao
    Not Available
    4.3.1 Where They Speak
    Kilwa
    Not Available
    4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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    Not Available
    Rank: N/A (Overall)
    Not Available
    Rank: N/A (Overall)
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    4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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    12
    Rank: 12 (Overall)
    1
    Rank: 1 (Overall)
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    5 How Many People Speak
    5.1 How Many People Speak?
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    150.00 million
    Rank: 13 (Overall)
    16.00 million
    Rank: 45 (Overall)
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    5.2 Speaking Population
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    Rank: N/A (Overall)
    0.25 %
    Rank: 41 (Overall)
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    5.3 Native Speakers
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    15.00 million
    Rank: 40 (Overall)
    16.00 million
    Rank: 39 (Overall)
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    5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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    Not Available
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    2.00 million
    Rank: 34 (Overall)
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    5.3.2 Native Name
    Not Available
    සිංහල (sĩhala)
    5.3.3 Alternative Names
    Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
    Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
    5.3.4 French Name
    swahili
    singhalais
    5.3.5 German Name
    Swahili
    Singhalesisch
    5.4 Pronunciation
    Not Available
    Not Available
    5.5 Ethnicity
    Swahili people or Waswahili
    Sinhalese people
    6 History
    6.1 Origin
    6th century
    3
    6.2 Language Family
    Niger-Congo Family
    Indo-European Family
    6.2.1 Subgroup
    Benue-Congo
    Indo-Iranian
    6.2.2 Branch
    Bantu
    Indic
    6.3 Language Forms
    6.3.1 Early Forms
    No early forms
    Sinhalese Prakrit
    6.3.2 Standard Forms
    Swahili
    Modern Sinhalese
    6.3.3 Language Position
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    70
    Rank: 49 (Overall)
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    6.3.4 Signed Forms
    Not Available
    Not Available
    6.4 Scope
    Individual, Macrolanguage
    Individual
    7 Code
    7.1 ISO 639 1
    sw
    si
    7.2 ISO 639 2
    7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
    swa
    sin
    7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
    swa
    sin
    7.3 ISO 639 3
    swa
    sin
    7.4 ISO 639 6
    Not Available
    Not Available
    7.5 Glottocode
    swah1254
    sinh1246
    7.6 Linguasphere
    99-AUS-m
    No data available
    7.7 Types of Language
    7.7.1 Language Type
    Living
    Living
    7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
    Not Available
    Subject-Object-Verb
    7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
    Not Available
    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 24 letters while in Sinhalese Alphabets there are 54 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 greetings vs Sinhalese greetings, 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 Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja, Kimrima. Sinhalese dialects include: Vedda , Not Available. 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 Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. 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 and Sinhalese language codes 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.

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