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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
41
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
  • The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
  • Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
  • Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2432
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
515
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2117
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
33
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks24 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Habari
hallo
3.2 Thank You
Asante
Dankie
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
Usiku mwema
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
goeie more
3.8 Please
tafadhali
asseblief
3.9 Sorry
pole
jammer
3.10 Bye
bye
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
nakupenda
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
Samahani
Verskoon my
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Kimrima
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Kimgao
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kilwa
Namibia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
123
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million19.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
NANA
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million7.10 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA10.30 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
Afrikaans
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
swahili
afrikaans
5.3.5 German Name
Swahili
Afrikaans
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Afrikaners
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th century
17th Century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Germanic
6.2.2 Branch
Bantu
Western
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Swahili
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
NANA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
sw
af
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
swa
afr
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
swa
afr
7.3 ISO 639 3
swa
afr
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
afrs
7.5 Glottocode
swah1254
afri1274
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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Swahili and Afrikaans Alphabets

Swahili and Afrikaans Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Afrikaans. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Afrikaans Alphabets there are 32 letters. To learn Swahili and Afrikaans languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Afrikaans languages. The Swahili phonology consist Swahili vowels and Swahili consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Swahili greetings vs Afrikaans greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Afrikaans are Most Spoken Languages.

All Swahili and Afrikaans Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Swahili and Afrikaans dialects. Various dialects of Swahili and Afrikaans language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Swahili are spoken in different Swahili Speaking Countries whereas Afrikaans Dialects are spoken in different Afrikaans speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Swahili vs Afrikaans Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja, Kimrima. Afrikaans dialects include: Kaapse Afrikaans , Oranjeriverafrikaans. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Swahili and Afrikaans Speaking population

Swahili and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans 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 Swahili and Afrikaans on Swahili vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Afrikaans Language Codes

Swahili and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swahili and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.