1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.7 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
China, Guangdong
1.8 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.9 Speaking Continents
1.10 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
1.11 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.12 Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.13 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Chinese Language
1.14 Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.4 Phonology
2.4.1 How Many Vowels
4.1.3 How Many Consonants
1.3 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
1.4 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
1.5 Hard to Learn
1.5.1 Language Levels
3.3.1 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.2 Thank You
5.3 How Are You?
5.4 Good Night
5.5 Good Evening
5.6 Good Afternoon
5.7 Good Morning
5.8 Please
5.9 Sorry
5.10 Bye
5.11 I Love You
5.12 Excuse Me
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
6.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
outside mainland China
6.1.2 How Many People Speak
6.3 Dialect 2
6.3.1 Where They Speak
6.3.2 How Many People Speak
6.6 Dialect 3
6.7.1 Where They Speak
6.8.2 How Many People Speak
6.9 Total No. Of Dialects
8 How Many People Speak
8.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
11.8 Speaking Population
11.10 Native Speakers
15.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
11.11.3 Second Language Speakers
11.12.1 Native Name
Not Available
Kwang Tung Wa
11.12.2 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
11.12.3 French Name
11.12.4 German Name
11.13 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
11.14 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Not Available
12 History
12.1 Origin
12.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
12.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
12.2.2 Branch
12.3 Language Forms
13.0.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
13.1.1 Standard Forms
Swahili
Standard Cantonese
13.1.2 Language Position
13.1.3 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
13.2 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Not Available
14 Code
14.1 ISO 639 1
14.2 ISO 639 2
14.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
14.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
14.3 ISO 639 3
14.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
14.5 Glottocode
14.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data available
14.7 Types of Language
14.7.1 Language Type
14.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
14.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available