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Swahili
Swahili

Uyghur
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Countries

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

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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Greetings

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

Dialects

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
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Dialect 3

Kimgao
Lop Nur

Where They Speak

Kilwa
China

How Many People Speak

75,000,000.0025,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

127
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

150.00 million10.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %0.12 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

15.00 million8.20 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

75.00 million25.00 million
0.01 400
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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

History

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
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Code

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

-
-

Swahili and Uyghur Alphabets

Swahili and Uyghur Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Uyghur. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Uyghur Alphabets there are 36 letters. To learn Swahili and Uyghur languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Uyghur 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 Uyghur greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Uyghur are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Uyghur Speaking population

Swahili and Uyghur speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Uyghur languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Uyghur Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Uyghur language is 0.12 %. 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 Uyghur on Swahili vs Uyghur where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Uyghur Language Codes

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