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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
India, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
42
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Nepal
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
  • Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
  • Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Hindi
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2448
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
512
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2136
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
36
About Bengali Language
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks44 weeks
About Cebuano Language
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Habari
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.2 Thank You
Asante
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
3.4 Good Night
Usiku mwema
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
Good afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
3.8 Please
tafadhali
कृपया
3.9 Sorry
pole
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
3.10 Bye
bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
3.11 I Love You
nakupenda
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Samahani
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Doteli
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA790,000.00
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Kimrima
Bajhangi
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
India, Nepal
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Kimgao
Baitadeli
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kilwa
Nepal
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
1212
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million30.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
NA0.25 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million25.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA5.00 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
नेपाली (nēpālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
5.3.4 French Name
swahili
népalais
5.3.5 German Name
Swahili
Nepali
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th century
19 BC
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
Bantu
Indic
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Swahili
Nepali
6.3.3 Language Position
NA59
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Nepali
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual, Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
sw
ne
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
swa
nep
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
swa
nep
7.3 ISO 639 3
swa
npi
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
swah1254
nepa1254
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
12
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative

Swahili and Nepali Alphabets

Swahili and Nepali Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Nepali. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Nepali Alphabets there are 48 letters. To learn Swahili and Nepali languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Nepali are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Nepali Speaking population

Swahili and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. 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 Nepali on Swahili vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Nepali Language Codes

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