Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
National Language
East Asia, European Union
  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Interesting Facts
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Not Available
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
Esperanto-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
Habari
  
Thank You
Dankon
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
Bonan nokton
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
Bonan vesperon
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
Bonan matenon
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
Mi petas
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!
  
pole
  
Bye
Ĝis poste
  
bye
  
I Love You
Mi amas vin
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
Pardonu!
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Not present
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Zanzibar island
  
Dialect 2
Not present
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Dar es Salaam
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
Not present
  
Kilwa
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
2.20 million
  
99+
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.20 million
  
99+
15.00 million
  
40
Second Language Speakers
2.00 million
  
34
Not Available
  
Native Name
Esperanto
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
espéranto
  
swahili
  
German Name
Esperanto
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
1887
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Esperanto
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Esperanto
  
Swahili
  
Signed Forms
Signuno
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
eo
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
epo
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
epo
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
epo
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
espe1235
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
51-AAB-da
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Constructed
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Esperanto 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 Esperanto and Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Esperanto and Swahili language. Esperanto word for "Hello" is Halo or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Esperanto Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Esperanto vs Swahili Difficulty
The Esperanto vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Esperanto 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 Esperanto and Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Esperanto and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Esperanto is 6 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.