Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
China
Total No. Of Countries
41
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
China
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Uzbek Language
Derived From
Arabic Language
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2436
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2127
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
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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Hello
Habari
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
Asante
rakhmat
How Are You?
Habari gani?
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
Usiku mwema
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
tafadhali
birdam
Sorry
pole
kachurung
Bye
bye
Khayr khosh
I Love You
nakupenda
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
Samahani
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Turpan
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
China
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kimrima
Hotan
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
China
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimgao
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
Kilwa
China
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
127
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million10.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.12 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million8.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
75.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kiswahili
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
swahili
ouïgour
German Name
Swahili
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[swaˈhili]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Uyghur
Origin
6th century
11
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Swahili
Uyghur
Language Position
2198
1
120
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Signed Forms
Swahili Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
sw
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swa
uig
ISO 639 2/B
swa
uig
ISO 639 3
swa
uig
ISO 639 6
swa
uig
Glottocode
swah1254
uigh1240
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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