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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
42
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
  • 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.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2428
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
58
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2120
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
310
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks88 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Habari
您好
3.2 Thank You
Asante
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
你好吗?
3.4 Good Night
Usiku mwema
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
晚上好
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
下午好
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
早上好
3.8 Please
tafadhali
3.9 Sorry
pole
遗憾
3.10 Bye
bye
再见
3.11 I Love You
nakupenda
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
Samahani
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Kimrima
Xiguan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Hong Kong
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Kimgao
Hong Kong
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kilwa
Hong Kong
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 million60.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
NA16.00 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million52.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NANA
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
swahili
Not Available
5.3.5 German Name
Swahili
Not Available
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th century
17th century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Bantu
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Swahili
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
NANA
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
sw
No data available
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
swa
Not Available
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
swa
Not Available
7.3 ISO 639 3
swa
No data available
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
swah1254
cant1236
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available

Swahili and Cantonese Alphabets

Swahili and Cantonese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Cantonese. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Cantonese Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Swahili and Cantonese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Cantonese 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 Cantonese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Cantonese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Cantonese Speaking population

Swahili and Cantonese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Cantonese languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Cantonese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 %. 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 Cantonese on Swahili vs Cantonese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Cantonese Language Codes

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