Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hindi.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Habari
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
Asante
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
Habari gani?
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
Usiku mwema
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
tafadhali
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
pole
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
bye
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
nakupenda
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
Samahani
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Kimrima
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Kimgao
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
Kilwa
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million
  
13
380.00 million
  
5
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
Not Available
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
swahili
  
hindi
  
German Name
Swahili
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
6th century
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Swahili
  
Standard Hindi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sw
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swa
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
swa
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
swa
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
swah1254
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Swahili and Hindi Speaking population
Swahili and Hindi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Hindi languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Hindi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Hindi language is 4.70 %. 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 Hindi on Swahili vs Hindi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Swahili and Hindi Language Codes
Swahili and Hindi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swahili and Hindi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.