Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
National Language
China, Taiwan
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
Similar To
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Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
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Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Habari
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
Asante
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Habari gani?
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Habari za asubuhi
Please
请 (Qǐng)
tafadhali
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Samahani
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Dar es Salaam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
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Alternative Names
Not Available
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
chinois
swahili
German Name
Chinesisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Han
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
1250 BC
6th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
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Benue-Congo
Branch
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Bantu
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Swahili
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
sini1245
swah1254
Linguasphere
79-AAA
99-AUS-m
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Chinese and Swahili Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Chinese and Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Swahili language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Swahili Difficulty
The Chinese vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese Alphabets and Swahili Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Chinese and Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.