Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Central Hindi Directorate
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Urdu
Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2444
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2133
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Habari
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Asante
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Habari gani?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
Usiku mwema
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
tafadhali
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
pole
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
nakupenda
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
Samahani
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kimrima
Marwari
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimgao
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Kilwa
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1221
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
75.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kiswahili
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
swahili
hindi
German Name
Swahili
Hindi
Pronunciation
[swaˈhili]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Hindustani people
Origin
6th century
7th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Bantu
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Swahili
Standard Hindi
Language Position
215
1
120
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Signed Forms
Swahili Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
sw
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swa
hin
ISO 639 2/B
swa
hin
ISO 639 3
swa
hin
ISO 639 6
swa
hins
Glottocode
swah1254
hind1269
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic