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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
42
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Pakistan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Oceania
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
  • Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
  • Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Arabic and Hindi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Ghaznavid Persian Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2452
About Irish Language
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
510
About Hebrew Language
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2140
About German Language
9 60
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Arabic
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
34
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
خوش آمديد
3.2 Thank You
Asante
آپ کا شکریہ
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
3.4 Good Night
Usiku mwema
گڈ نائٹ
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
سلام علیکم
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
گڈ آفٹر نون
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
گڈ مارننگ
3.8 Please
tafadhali
براہ مہربانی
3.9 Sorry
pole
معاف کرنا
3.10 Bye
bye
الوداع
3.11 I Love You
nakupenda
مجھے تم سے محبت
3.12 Excuse Me
Samahani
معاف کیجئے گا
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Dakhini
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
India
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA11,000,000.00
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Kimrima
Hyderabadi Urdu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
India
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Kimgao
Rekhta
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Kilwa
South Asia
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NANA
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
123
About Sanskrit Language
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million104.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
NA0.99 %
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million61.00 million
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA43.00 million
About Finnish Language
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
اُردُو
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Bihari
5.3.4 French Name
swahili
ourdou
5.3.5 German Name
Swahili
Urdu
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈʊrd̪u]
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th century
12th Century CE
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Swahili
Modern Standard Urdu
6.3.3 Language Position
NA20
About Chinese Language
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Urdu
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
sw
ur
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
swa
urd
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
swa
urd
7.3 ISO 639 3
swa
urd
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
swah1254
urdu1245
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
59-AAF-q
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional

Swahili and Urdu Alphabets

Swahili and Urdu Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Swahili and Urdu. In Swahili Alphabets there are 24 letters while in Urdu Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Swahili and Urdu languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Swahili and Urdu 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 Urdu greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Swahili and Urdu are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Swahili and Urdu Speaking population

Swahili and Urdu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Urdu languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Urdu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 %. 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 Urdu on Swahili vs Urdu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swahili and Urdu Language Codes

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