1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Burma
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.5 National Language
Burundi, Gambia
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
1.7 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.9 Speaking Continents
1.11 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.13 Regulated By
Not Available
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
1.14 Interesting Facts
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
1.17 Similar To
Kinyarwanda Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
1.18 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
3.3 Phonology
3.3.1 How Many Vowels
3.4.2 How Many Consonants
3.5 Scripts
3.6 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
3.7 Hard to Learn
3.7.1 Language Levels
3.10.2 Time Taken to Learn
4 Greetings
4.1 Hello
4.2 Thank You
4.3 How Are You?
4.4 Good Night
4.5 Good Evening
4.6 Good Afternoon
4.7 Good Morning
Mwaramutse
Habari za asubuhi
4.8 Please
4.9 Sorry
4.10 Bye
4.11 I Love You
4.12 Excuse Me
5 Dialects
5.1 Dialect 1
5.1.1 Where They Speak
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Zanzibar island
5.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
7.2 Dialect 2
7.2.1 Where They Speak
7.2.2 How Many People Speak
990,000.00NA
700
80000000
7.4 Dialect 3
7.4.1 Where They Speak
7.4.2 How Many People Speak
153,000.00NA
1400
96000000
7.6 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
8.80 million150.00 million
0.13
1200
9.2 Speaking Population
9.4 Native Speakers
8.80 million15.00 million
0.13
873
9.5.1 Second Language Speakers
9.5.2 Native Name
9.5.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
9.5.4 French Name
9.5.5 German Name
9.6 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
9.7 Ethnicity
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Swahili people or Waswahili
10 History
10.1 Origin
10.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
10.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Benue-Congo
10.2.2 Branch
10.3 Language Forms
10.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
10.3.2 Standard Forms
10.3.3 Language Position
11.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
11.4 Scope
Not Available
Individual, Macrolanguage
12 Code
12.1 ISO 639 1
12.2 ISO 639 2
12.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
12.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
12.3 ISO 639 3
12.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
12.5 Glottocode
12.6 Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUS-m
12.7 Types of Language
12.7.1 Language Type
12.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
12.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available