1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
1.4 Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
- 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
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
How are you?
Habari gani?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
3.7 Good Morning
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
American English
Kiunguja
4.1.1 Where They Speak
United States of America
Zanzibar island
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Dar es Salaam
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million150.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
400.00 million15.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
400.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Swahili people or Waswahili
6 History
6.1 Origin
5th Century AD
6th century
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed English
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Not Available