Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Habari
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Asante
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Habari gani?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Usiku mwema
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
tafadhali
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
pole
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
bye
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
nakupenda
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Samahani
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kimrima
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Kimgao
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Kilwa
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million
  
13
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
Not Available
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
Russki
  
French Name
swahili
  
russe
  
German Name
Swahili
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Russians
  
Origin
6th century
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Swahili
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sw
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swa
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
swa
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
swa
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swah1254
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic