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Swahili
Swahili

Slovak
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Countries

Countries

African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia

Total No. Of Countries

44
0 46
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National Language

Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Slovakia, Vojvodina, 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
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine

Regulated By

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic

Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
  • Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.

Similar To

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Czech Language

Derived From

Arabic Language
Czech-Slovak Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2446
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

515
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2138
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

36 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Habari
Ahoj

Thank You

Asante
Ďakujem vám

How Are You?

Habari gani?
Ako sa máte?

Good Night

Usiku mwema
Dobrú noc

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
Dobrý večer

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
Dobré popoludnie

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
Dobré ráno

Please

tafadhali
Prosím

Sorry

pole
Pardón!

Bye

bye
Dovidenia

I Love You

nakupenda
Ľúbim Ťa

Excuse Me

Samahani
Prepáčte!

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Eastern Slovak

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.005,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kimrima
Central Slovak

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.005,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Western Slovak

Where They Speak

Kilwa
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.005,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

124
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million5.20 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.14 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million5.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
slovenčina

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Slovakian, Slovencina

French Name

swahili
slovaque

German Name

Swahili
Slowakisch

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
[ˈsləʊvæk]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Slovaks

History

Origin

6th century
6th Century

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Slavic

Branch

Bantu
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Slavic

Standard Forms

Swahili
Slovak

Language Position

2127
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
Slovak Sign Language

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
sk

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
slk

ISO 639 2/B

swa
slo

ISO 639 3

swa
slk

ISO 639 6

swa
slk

Glottocode

swah1254
slov1269

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
53-AAA-db

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

-
Synthetic

Swahili and Slovak Alphabets

Swahili and Slovak Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Slovak. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Slovak Alphabets there are 46 letters. To learn Swahili and Slovak languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Slovak 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 Slovak greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Slovak are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Slovak Speaking population

Swahili and Slovak speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Slovak languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Slovak Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Slovak language is 0.14 %. 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 Slovak on Swahili vs Slovak where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Slovak Language Codes

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