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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
433
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Latin
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2426
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
55
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2121
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
37
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks6 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Habari
Hello
3.2 Thank You
Asante
Thank you
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
How are you?
3.4 Good Night
Usiku mwema
Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
Good Morning
3.8 Please
tafadhali
Please
3.9 Sorry
pole
Sorry
3.10 Bye
bye
Bye
3.11 I Love You
nakupenda
I love you
3.12 Excuse Me
Samahani
Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kiunguja
American English
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA225,000,000.00
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Kimrima
Hiberno-English
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Kimgao
Welsh English
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kilwa
United Kingdom
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA2,500,000.00
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
12188
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million1,200.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
NA5.43 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million400.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA400.00 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
English
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
swahili
anglais
5.3.5 German Name
Swahili
Englisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th century
5th Century AD
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European 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
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Swahili
Standard English
6.3.3 Language Position
NA3
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed English
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
sw
en
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
swa
eng
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
swa
eng
7.3 ISO 639 3
swa
eng
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
engs
7.5 Glottocode
swah1254
stan1293
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
52-ABA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Swahili and English Alphabets

Swahili and English Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and English. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in English Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Swahili and English languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and English 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 English greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and English are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and English Speaking population

Swahili and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and English languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Swahili vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and English Language Codes

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