1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Indonesia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Indonesia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
East Timor, Indonesia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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.
- The modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Malay language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Malay and Dutch Languages
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
Usiku mwema
Selamat Malam
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
Malam yang baik
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
Selamat Sore
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
Selamat Pagi
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Indonesia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA38,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,300,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kilwa
Indonesia, Malaysia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA6,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million163.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million23.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA140.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
Bahasa Melayu
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Bahasa Indonesia
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Indonesians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative