Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Czech Language
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovak-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Habari
  
Ahoj
  
Thank You
Asante
  
Ďakujem vám
  
How Are You?
Habari gani?
  
Ako sa máte?
  
Good Night
Usiku mwema
  
Dobrú noc
  
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
  
Dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
  
Dobré popoludnie
  
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
  
Dobré ráno
  
Please
tafadhali
  
Prosím
  
Sorry
pole
  
Pardón!
  
Bye
bye
  
Dovidenia
  
I Love You
nakupenda
  
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Excuse Me
Samahani
  
Prepáčte!
  
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
  
Eastern Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
Dialect 2
Kimrima
  
Central Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
Dialect 3
Kimgao
  
Western Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Kilwa
  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million
  
13
5.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
5.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
Not Available
  
slovenčina
  
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
French Name
swahili
  
slovaque
  
German Name
Swahili
  
Slowakisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Slovaks
  
Origin
6th century
  
6th Century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Proto-Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Swahili
  
Slovak
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sw
  
sk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swa
  
slk
  
ISO 639 2/B
swa
  
slo
  
ISO 639 3
swa
  
slk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swah1254
  
slov1269
  
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
  
53-AAA-db
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Swahili and Slovak Speaking population
Swahili and Slovak speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Slovak languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Slovak Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Slovak language is Not Available. 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 Slovak on Swahili vs Slovak where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Swahili and Slovak Language Codes
Swahili and Slovak language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swahili and Slovak Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.