Countries
China, Mongolia
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
National Language
China, Mongolia
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Interesting Facts
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Turkish Language
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
Hello
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Habari
Thank You
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
Asante
How Are You?
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Habari gani?
Good Night
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Habari za asubuhi
Please
Хэрэв (Kherev)
tafadhali
Sorry
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
pole
Bye
Баяртай (Bayartai)
bye
I Love You
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Samahani
Dialect 1
Khalkha Mongolian
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Zanzibar island
Dialect 2
Ordos Mongolian
Kimrima
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Dar es Salaam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Khorchin Mongolian
Kimgao
Where They Speak
Mongolia
Kilwa
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Not Available
Alternative Names
Not Available
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
mongol
swahili
German Name
Mongolisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
1224-1225
6th century
Language Family
Mongolic family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Mongolian
Benue-Congo
Branch
Not Available
Bantu
Early Forms
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Swahili
Signed Forms
Mongolian Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
mong1331
swah1254
Linguasphere
part of 44-BAA-b
99-AUS-m
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Mongolian 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 Mongolian and Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Mongolian and Swahili language. Mongolian word for "Hello" is Сайн уу (Sain uu) or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Mongolian Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Mongolian vs Swahili Difficulty
The Mongolian vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Mongolian 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 Mongolian and Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Mongolian and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Mongolian is 44 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.