1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Finland
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
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.
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Norwegian and Danish Language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Old Norse Language
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
god kväll
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
god eftermiddag
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
god morgon
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
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA78,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA78,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA96,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million15.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million8.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Ruotsi, Svenska
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Swedes, Finland Swedes
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Bantu
Northern (Scandinavian)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Swedish
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
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
52-AAA-ck to -cw
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
Not Available