Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
India
Total No. Of Countries
41
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
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Govenment of Goa
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Marathi
Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2452
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2136
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks4 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Habari
Namaskar
Thank You
Asante
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
Habari gani?
kaso assa?
Good Night
Usiku mwema
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
tafadhali
Chike
Sorry
pole
Maf kor
Bye
bye
Adeus
I Love You
nakupenda
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
Samahani
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Antruz
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Goa
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kimrima
Not present
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
-
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Kimgao
Not present
Where They Speak
Kilwa
-
How Many People Speak
75,000,000.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
121
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
15.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
75.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kiswahili
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
swahili
konkani
German Name
Swahili
Konkani
Pronunciation
[swaˈhili]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Konkanis
Origin
6th century
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
-
Branch
Bantu
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Swahili
Kokani
Language Position
2123
1
120
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Signed Forms
Swahili Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
sw
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swa
kok
ISO 639 2/B
swa
kok
ISO 639 3
swa
kok
ISO 639 6
swa
kok
Glottocode
swah1254
goan1235
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-