Countries
Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Institute for the Bulgarian language
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Macedonian language
Derived From
Arabic Language
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2430
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Habari
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
Asante
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
Habari gani?
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
Usiku mwema
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
tafadhali
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
pole
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
nakupenda
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
Samahani
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kimrima
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Kimgao
Pirdop
Where They Speak
Kilwa
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1258
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
75.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Kiswahili
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Balgarski
French Name
swahili
bulgare
German Name
Swahili
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[swaˈhili]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Bulgarian people
History
Origin
6th century
9th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Branch
Bantu
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Swahili
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
2188
1
120
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Signed Forms
Swahili Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
sw
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swa
bul
ISO 639 2/B
swa
bul
ISO 639 3
swa
bul
ISO 639 6
swa
buls
Glottocode
swah1254
bulg1262
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-