Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Arabic Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Habari
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
Asante
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
Habari gani?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
Usiku mwema
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
tafadhali
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
pole
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
nakupenda
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
Samahani
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Kimrima
Olonets
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Olonets
Dialect 3
Kimgao
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Kilwa
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Not Available
Русский
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Russki
French Name
swahili
russe
German Name
Swahili
Russisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Russians
Origin
6th century
1000 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Slavic
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Swahili
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
swah1254
russ1263
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Swahili and Russian 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 Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swahili and Russian language. Swahili word for "Hello" is Habari or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Swahili Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swahili vs Russian Difficulty
The Swahili vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swahili Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swahili and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swahili is 36 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.