Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Turkish Language Association
  
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Habari
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
Asante
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
Habari gani?
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
Usiku mwema
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
  
günaydın
  
Please
tafadhali
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
pole
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
bye
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
nakupenda
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
Samahani
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Kimrima
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Kimgao
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Kilwa
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million
  
13
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
Not Available
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
swahili
  
turc
  
German Name
Swahili
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Turkish
  
Origin
6th century
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Swahili
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sw
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swa
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
swa
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
swa
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swah1254
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Swahili and Turkish Speaking population
Swahili and Turkish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Turkish languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Turkish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Turkish language is 0.95 %. 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 Turkish on Swahili vs Turkish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Swahili and Turkish Language Codes
Swahili and Turkish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swahili and Turkish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.