Countries
Indonesia
  
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
National Language
Indonesia
  
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Second Language
East Timor, Indonesia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
  
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Interesting Facts
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
  
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Malay language
  
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Derived From
Malay and Dutch Languages
  
Arabic Language
  
Alphabets in
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Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Halo
  
Habari
  
Thank You
Terima kasih
  
Asante
  
How Are You?
Apa kabar?
  
Habari gani?
  
Good Night
Selamat Malam
  
Usiku mwema
  
Good Evening
Malam yang baik
  
Habari za jioni
  
Good Afternoon
Selamat Sore
  
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good Morning
Selamat Pagi
  
Habari za asubuhi
  
Please
mohon Untuk
  
tafadhali
  
Sorry
maaf
  
pole
  
Bye
Selamat tinggal
  
bye
  
I Love You
Aku cinta kamu
  
nakupenda
  
Excuse Me
Permisi
  
Samahani
  
Dialect 1
Sundanese
  
Kiunguja
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia
  
Zanzibar island
  
How Many People Speak
38,000,000.00
  
8
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Balinese
  
Kimrima
  
Where They Speak
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
  
Dar es Salaam
  
How Many People Speak
3,300,000.00
  
17
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Minangkabau
  
Kimgao
  
Where They Speak
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Kilwa
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
7
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
150.00 million
  
13
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
23.00 million
  
34
15.00 million
  
40
Second Language Speakers
140.00 million
  
4
Not Available
  
Native Name
Bahasa Melayu
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
French Name
indonésien
  
swahili
  
German Name
Bahasa Indonesia
  
Swahili
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Indonesians
  
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Origin
7th Century
  
6th century
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Malay
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Indonesian
  
Swahili
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
id
  
sw
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ind
  
swa
  
ISO 639 2/B
ind
  
swa
  
ISO 639 3
ind
  
swa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
indo1316
  
swah1254
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
99-AUS-m
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Indonesian and Swahili Speaking population
Indonesian and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Indonesian and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Indonesian and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Indonesian language is 1.16 % 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 Indonesian and Swahili on Indonesian vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Indonesian and Swahili Language Codes
Indonesian and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Indonesian and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.