Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
  
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Malaysia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Indonesia
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Thailand
  
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
  
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Indonesian Language
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Tamil Language
  
Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Malaysian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Habari
  
Hai
  
Thank You
Asante
  
terima kasih
  
How Are You?
Habari gani?
  
Apa khabar?
  
Good Night
Usiku mwema
  
Selamat Malam
  
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
  
Selamat Petang
  
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
  
Selamat tengah hari
  
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
  
Selamat pagi
  
Please
tafadhali
  
sila
  
Sorry
pole
  
maaf
  
Bye
bye
  
Selamat tinggal
  
I Love You
nakupenda
  
Saya sayang kamu
  
Excuse Me
Samahani
  
Maafkan saya
  
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
  
Bengkulu
  
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
  
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,600,000.00
  
25
Dialect 2
Kimrima
  
Pekal
  
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Kimgao
  
Musi
  
Where They Speak
Kilwa
  
Indonesia
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,100,000.00
  
11
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million
  
13
175.00 million
  
10
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
77.00 million
  
12
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
98.00 million
  
8
Native Name
Not Available
  
Bahasa melayu
  
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
Not Available
  
French Name
swahili
  
malais
  
German Name
Swahili
  
Malaiisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
  
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Not Available
  
Origin
6th century
  
c. 683 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
  
Standard Forms
Swahili
  
Pluricentric Standard Malay
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Malaysian Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sw
  
ms
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swa
  
msa
  
ISO 639 2/B
swa
  
may
  
ISO 639 3
swa
  
zsm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swah1254
  
stan1306
  
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Swahili and Malaysian Speaking population
Swahili and Malaysian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Malaysian languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Malaysian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Malaysian language is 1.16 %. 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 Malaysian on Swahili vs Malaysian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Swahili and Malaysian Language Codes
Swahili and Malaysian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swahili and Malaysian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.