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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
41
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Ethiopia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Not Available
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.
  • Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
  • Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2433
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
57
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2131
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Ethiopic
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 weeks44 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Habari
Selam
3.2 Thank You
Asante
amesege'nallo'
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
Dehina newot?
3.4 Good Night
Usiku mwema
Dehna dur
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
melkam meshe't
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
i'ndemin walu
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
i'ndemin adäru
3.8 Please
tafadhali
i'bakwon
3.9 Sorry
pole
aznallehu
3.10 Bye
bye
tschao
3.11 I Love You
nakupenda
afekirishalehu
3.12 Excuse Me
Samahani
yiqirta
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Gondar
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Gondar
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Kimrima
Gojjami
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Ethiopia
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Kimgao
Showa
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kilwa
Ethiopia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
125
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million18.70 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
NA0.37 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million25.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA10.00 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
5.3.4 French Name
swahili
amharique
5.3.5 German Name
Swahili
Amharisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[amarɨɲɲa]
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Amharas
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th century
13th century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Semitic
6.2.2 Branch
Bantu
Ethiopic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Swahili
Amharic
6.3.3 Language Position
NA55
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Amharic
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
sw
am
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
swa
amh
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
swa
amh
7.3 ISO 639 3
swa
amh
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
swah1254
amha1245
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
12-ACB-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional

Swahili and Amharic Alphabets

Swahili and Amharic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Amharic. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Amharic Alphabets there are 33 letters. To learn Swahili and Amharic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Amharic 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 Amharic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Amharic are Most Spoken Languages.

All Swahili and Amharic 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 Amharic dialects. Various dialects of Swahili and Amharic language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Swahili are spoken in different Swahili Speaking Countries whereas Amharic Dialects are spoken in different Amharic speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Swahili vs Amharic Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja, Kimrima. Amharic dialects include: Gondar , Gojjami. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Swahili and Amharic Speaking population

Swahili and Amharic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Amharic languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Amharic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 %. 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 Amharic on Swahili vs Amharic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Amharic Language Codes

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