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Countries

Countries

Wales
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya

Total No. Of Countries

14
0 46
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National Language

Wales
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

Europe
Africa

Minority Language

Argentina, United Kingdom
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Welsh Language Commissioner
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)

Interesting Facts

  • One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
  • Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.

Similar To

English Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages

Derived From

British Language
Arabic Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2924
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

75
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2121
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

43
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks36 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Helô
Habari

Thank You

Diolch
Asante

How Are You?

Sut ydych chi?
Habari gani?

Good Night

Nos da
Usiku mwema

Good Evening

Noswaith dda
Habari za jioni

Good Afternoon

P'nawn da
nzuri Alasiri

Good Morning

Bore da
Habari za asubuhi

Please

os gwelwch yn dda
tafadhali

Sorry

Mae'n ddrwg gennym
pole

Bye

Hwyl
bye

I Love You

Dw i'n dy garu di
nakupenda

Excuse Me

Esgusodwch fi
Samahani

Dialects

Dialect 1

Patagonian Welsh
Kiunguja

Where They Speak

Argentina
Zanzibar island

How Many People Speak

38,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Y Wyndodeg
Kimrima

Where They Speak

Gwynedd
Dar es Salaam

How Many People Speak

700,000.0075,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Y Bowyseg
Kimgao

Where They Speak

Powys
Kilwa

How Many People Speak

700,000.0075,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

812
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

7.40 million150.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.24 %0.42 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

7.40 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.70 million75.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Kiswahili

Alternative Names

Cymraeg
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili

French Name

gallois
swahili

German Name

Kymrisch
Swahili

Pronunciation

[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[swaˈhili]

Ethnicity

Welsh people
Swahili people or Waswahili

History

Origin

9th Century
6th century

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Celtic
Benue-Congo

Branch

Brythonic
Bantu

Language Forms

Early Forms

Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
No early forms

Standard Forms

Welsh
Swahili

Language Position

3121
1 120
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Signed Forms

Welsh Sign Language
Swahili Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

cy
sw

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

cym
swa

ISO 639 2/B

wel
swa

ISO 639 3

cym
swa

ISO 639 6

cym
swa

Glottocode

wels1247
swah1254

Linguasphere

50-ABA
99-AUS-m

Types of Language

Language Type

Historical
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Verb-Subject-Object
-

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
-

Welsh and Swahili Alphabets

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

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

Welsh and Swahili Speaking population

Welsh and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Welsh and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Welsh and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Welsh language is 0.24 % 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 Welsh and Swahili on Welsh vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Welsh and Swahili Language Codes

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