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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
54
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2624
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
245
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2321
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
63
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks36 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Habari
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Asante
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Habari gani?
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Usiku mwema
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Habari za jioni
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
nzuri Alasiri
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Habari za asubuhi
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
tafadhali
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
pole
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
nakupenda
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Samahani
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Kiunguja
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Zanzibar island
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Wu
Kimrima
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Dar es Salaam
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Yue
Kimgao
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Kilwa
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00NA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
1012
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million150.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
16.00 %NA
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million15.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 millionNA
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
5.3.4 French Name
chinois
swahili
5.3.5 German Name
Chinesisch
Swahili
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Han
Swahili people or Waswahili
6 History
6.1 Origin
1250 BC
6th century
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Bantu
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Swahili
6.3.3 Language Position
1NA
Persian
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zh
sw
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zho
swa
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
chi
swa
7.3 ISO 639 3
zho
swa
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
sini1245
swah1254
7.6 Linguasphere
79-AAA
99-AUS-m
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available

Chinese and Swahili Alphabets

Chinese and Swahili Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Chinese and Swahili. In Chinese Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters. To learn Chinese and Swahili languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Chinese and Swahili languages. The Chinese phonology consist Chinese vowels and Chinese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Chinese greetings vs Swahili greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Chinese and Swahili are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Chinese and Swahili Speaking population

Chinese and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Chinese and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Chinese and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available. 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 Chinese and Swahili on Chinese vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Chinese and Swahili Language Codes

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