1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Ghana, Ivory coast
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.5 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Ghana
1.6 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Speaking Continents
1.8 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Benin, United States of America
1.9 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Akan Orthography Committee
1.10 Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
1.11 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Not Available
1.12 Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
3.3 Phonology
3.3.1 How Many Vowels
3.6.1 How Many Consonants
3.7 Scripts
3.8 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
3.9 Hard to Learn
3.9.1 Language Levels
3.12.2 Time Taken to Learn
4 Greetings
4.1 Hello
4.2 Thank You
4.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
wo ho te sɛn?
4.4 Good Night
4.5 Good Evening
4.6 Good Afternoon
4.7 Good Morning
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
5.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA9,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
7.2 Dialect 2
7.2.1 Where They Speak
7.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA9,000,000.00
700
80000000
7.4 Dialect 3
7.4.1 Where They Speak
7.4.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,900,000.00
1400
96000000
7.7 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million11.00 million
0.13
1200
9.3 Speaking Population
9.5 Native Speakers
15.00 million11.00 million
0.13
873
9.5.2 Second Language Speakers
10.3.4 Native Name
10.3.5 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Not Available
10.3.6 French Name
10.3.7 German Name
10.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
10.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Akan people
11 History
11.1 Origin
11.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
11.2.2 Branch
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
11.3.2 Standard Forms
11.3.3 Language Position
12.7.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
12.8 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
13 Code
13.1 ISO 639 1
13.2 ISO 639 2
13.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
13.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
13.3 ISO 639 3
13.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
13.5 Glottocode
13.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data available
13.7 Types of Language
13.7.1 Language Type
13.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
13.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available