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Countries

Countries

Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

114
0 46
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National Language

Turkey
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Turkish Language Association
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

Interesting Facts

  • Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
  • Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Azerbaijani Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

-
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2924
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

85
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2121
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

63
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Merhaba
Habari

Thank You

teşekkür ederim
Asante

How Are You?

Nasılsın?
Habari gani?

Good Night

İyi Geceler
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

İyi Akşamlar
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

Tünaydın
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

günaydın
Habari za asubuhi

Please

lütfen
tafadhali

Sorry

üzgünüm
pole

Bye

Hoşçakal
bye

I Love You

Seni seviyorum
nakupenda

Excuse Me

Afedersiniz
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Azerbaijani Turkish
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

26,000,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Crimean Turkish
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

480,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Gagauz
Kimgao

Where They Speak

Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

140,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

912
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

75.00 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.95 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

60.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

15.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Türkçe
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Anatolian, Türkisch
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

turc
swahili

German Name

Türkisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Turkish
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

c. 1350
6th century

Language Family

Turkic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Turkic
Benue-Congo

Branch

Southwestern(Oghuz)
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
No early forms

Standard Forms

Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Swahili

Language Position

1921
1 120
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Signed Forms

Turkish Sign Language
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

tr
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

tur
swa

ISO 639 2/B

tur
swa

ISO 639 3

tur
swa

ISO 639 6

tur
swa

Glottocode

nucl1301
swah1254

Linguasphere

44-AAB-a
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
-

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
-

Turkish and Swahili Alphabets

Turkish and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Turkish and Swahili. In Turkish Alphabets there are 29 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Turkish and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Turkish and Swahili languages. The Turkish phonology consist Turkish vowels and Turkish consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Turkish greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Turkish and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Turkish and Swahili Speaking population

Turkish and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Turkish and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Turkish and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Turkish language is 0.95 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is 0.42 %. 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 Turkish and Swahili on Turkish vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Turkish and Swahili Language Codes

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