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Swahili
Swahili

Turkish
Turkish



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Countries

Countries

African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey

Total No. Of Countries

411
0 46
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National Language

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

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania

Regulated By

Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Turkish Language Association

Interesting Facts

  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
  • Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.

Similar To

Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Azerbaijani Language

Derived From

Arabic Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2429
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2121
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
Merhaba

Thank You

Asante
teşekkür ederim

How Are You?

Habari gani?
Nasılsın?

Good Night

Usiku mwema
İyi Geceler

Good Evening

Habari za jioni
İyi Akşamlar

Good Afternoon

nzuri Alasiri
Tünaydın

Good Morning

Habari za asubuhi
günaydın

Please

tafadhali
lütfen

Sorry

pole
üzgünüm

Bye

bye
Hoşçakal

I Love You

nakupenda
Seni seviyorum

Excuse Me

Samahani
Afedersiniz

Dialects

Dialect 1

Kiunguja
Azerbaijani Turkish

Where They Speak

Zanzibar island
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.0026,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Kimrima
Crimean Turkish

Where They Speak

Dar es Salaam
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.00480,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Gagauz

Where They Speak

Kilwa
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine

How Many People Speak

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

129
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million75.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.95 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million60.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Kiswahili
Türkçe

Alternative Names

Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Anatolian, Türkisch

French Name

swahili
turc

German Name

Swahili
Türkisch

Pronunciation

[swaˈhili]
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]

Ethnicity

Swahili people or Waswahili
Turkish

History

Origin

6th century
c. 1350

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Turkic Family

Subgroup

Benue-Congo
Turkic

Branch

Bantu
Southwestern(Oghuz)

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish

Standard Forms

Swahili
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)

Language Position

2119
1 120
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Signed Forms

Swahili Sign Language
Turkish Sign Language

Scope

Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

sw
tr

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

swa
tur

ISO 639 2/B

swa
tur

ISO 639 3

swa
tur

ISO 639 6

swa
tur

Glottocode

swah1254
nucl1301

Linguasphere

99-AUS-m
44-AAB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Synthetic

Swahili and Turkish Alphabets

Swahili and Turkish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Turkish. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Turkish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Swahili and Turkish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Turkish 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 Turkish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Turkish are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Turkish Speaking population

Swahili and Turkish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Turkish languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Turkish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Turkish language is 0.95 %. 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 Turkish on Swahili vs Turkish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Turkish Language Codes

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