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Urdu
Urdu

Swahili
Swahili



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Countries

Countries

India, Pakistan
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

24
0 46
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National Language

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

Second Language

Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Oceania
Africa

Minority Language

India
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

Interesting Facts

  • Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
  • Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

Arabic and Hindi Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

Ghaznavid Persian Language
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5224
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

105
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4021
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Latin

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

43
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

خوش آمديد
Habari

Thank You

آپ کا شکریہ
Asante

How Are You?

آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Habari gani?

Good Night

گڈ نائٹ
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

سلام علیکم
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

گڈ آفٹر نون
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

گڈ مارننگ
Habari za asubuhi

Please

براہ مہربانی
tafadhali

Sorry

معاف کرنا
pole

Bye

الوداع
bye

I Love You

مجھے تم سے محبت
nakupenda

Excuse Me

معاف کیجئے گا
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dakhini
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

India
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hyderabadi Urdu
Kimrima

Where They Speak

India
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Rekhta
Kimgao

Where They Speak

South Asia
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

312
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

104.00 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.99 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

61.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

43.00 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

اُردُو
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Bihari
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

ourdou
swahili

German Name

Urdu
Swahili

Pronunciation

[ˈʊrd̪u]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Urdu-speaking people
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

12th Century CE
6th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Benue-Congo

Branch

Indic
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Standard Urdu
Swahili

Language Position

2021
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Urdu
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ur
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

urd
swa

ISO 639 2/B

urd
swa

ISO 639 3

urd
swa

ISO 639 6

urd
swa

Glottocode

urdu1245
swah1254

Linguasphere

59-AAF-q
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
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Urdu and Swahili Alphabets

Urdu and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Urdu and Swahili. In Urdu Alphabets there are 52 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Urdu and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Urdu and Swahili languages. The Urdu phonology consist Urdu vowels and Urdu consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Urdu greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Urdu and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Urdu and Swahili Speaking population

Urdu and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Urdu and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Urdu and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 % 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 Urdu and Swahili on Urdu vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Urdu and Swahili Language Codes

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