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About Swahili Language



Countries
0

Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya 0

Total No. Of Countries
4 11

National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania 0

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Speaking Continents
Africa 0

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries 0

Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya) 0

Interesting Facts
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
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Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages 0

Derived From
Arabic Language 0

Alphabets
0

Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200 0

Alphabets
24 6

Phonology
0

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
21 11

Scripts
Latin 0

Writing Direction
Not Available 0

Hard to Learn
0

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks 10

Greetings
0

Hello
Habari 0

Thank You
Asante 0

How Are You?
Habari gani? 0

Good Night
Usiku mwema 0

Good Evening
Habari za jioni 0

Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri 0

Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi 0

Please
tafadhali 0

Sorry
pole 0

Bye
bye 0

I Love You
nakupenda 0

Excuse Me
Samahani 0

Dialects
0

Dialect 1
Kiunguja 0

Where They Speak
Zanzibar island 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 2
Kimrima 0

Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Dialect 3
Kimgao 0

Where They Speak
Kilwa 0

How Many People Speak
Not Available 0

Total No. Of Dialects
12 12

How Many People Speak
0

How Many People Speak?
150.00 million 13

Speaking Population
Not Available 0

Native Speakers
15.00 million 40

Second Language Speakers
Not Available 0

Native Name
Not Available 0

Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili 0

French Name
swahili 0

German Name
Swahili 0

Pronunciation
Not Available 0

Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili 0

History
0

Origin
6th century 0

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family 0

Subgroup
Benue-Congo 0

Branch
Bantu 0

Language Forms
0

Early Forms
No early forms 0

Standard Forms
Swahili 0

Language Position
Not Available 0

Signed Forms
Not Available 0

Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage 0

Code
0

ISO 639 1
sw 0

ISO 639 2
0

ISO 639 2/T
swa 0

ISO 639 2/B
swa 0

ISO 639 3
swa 0

ISO 639 6
Not Available 0

Glottocode
swah1254 0

Linguasphere
99-AUS-m 0

Types of Language
0

Language Type
Living 0

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available 0

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available 0

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Know Alphabets in Swahili

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Swahili Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Swahili Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Swahili. Swahili phonology gives Swahili vowels and Swahili consonants. There are 5 vowels and 21 consonants in Swahili language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Swahili is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Swahili language is given in detail in this section.

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All Swahili countries

Want to explore all Swahili countries? About Swahili language serves you with all Swahili Speaking Countries. Countries that use Swahili as official language are called as Swahili countries.

  • Countries that use Swahili as their National Language are: Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Swahili as second language are: Swahili is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Swahili greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Swahili Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Swahili language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Swahili language.Learn Swahili greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Habari
  • Thank you: Asante
  • Good Morning: Habari za asubuhi
  • Good Evening: Habari za jioni
  • Good Afternoon: nzuri Alasiri

All Swahili Language Codes

Get to know all Swahili language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Swahili Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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