Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
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Derived From
Arabic Language
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Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
Habari
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
Asante
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
Habari gani?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
Usiku mwema
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
tafadhali
请 (Qǐng)
I Love You
nakupenda
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
Samahani
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Kilwa
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Not Available
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
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French Name
swahili
chinois
German Name
Swahili
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Han
Origin
6th century
1250 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
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Branch
Bantu
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Swahili
Standard Chinese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
swah1254
sini1245
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
79-AAA
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating
Swahili and Chinese Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Swahili and Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swahili and Chinese language. Swahili word for "Hello" is Habari or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Swahili Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swahili vs Chinese Difficulty
The Swahili vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swahili Alphabets and Chinese Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Swahili and Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swahili and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swahili is 36 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.