Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
Turkey, Uzbekistan
  
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Middle East
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
  
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Uzbek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Habari
  
Salom
  
Thank You
Asante
  
Rakhmat
  
How Are You?
Habari gani?
  
Qalay siz?
  
Good Night
Usiku mwema
  
Hayirli tun
  
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
  
Hayirli kech
  
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
  
Hayirli kun
  
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
  
Hayirli tong
  
Please
tafadhali
  
Iltimos
  
Sorry
pole
  
Kechiring!
  
Bye
bye
  
Xayr
  
I Love You
nakupenda
  
Sizni sevaman
  
Excuse Me
Samahani
  
Iltimos! Menga qarang
  
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
  
Tashkent
  
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kimrima
  
Afghan
  
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Kimgao
  
Ferghana
  
Where They Speak
Kilwa
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million
  
13
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
26.00 million
  
31
Native Name
Not Available
  
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
  
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
swahili
  
ouszbek
  
German Name
Swahili
  
Usbekisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Uzbek
  
Origin
6th century
  
9th–12th centuries AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Southestern(Chagatai)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Chagatay
  
Standard Forms
Swahili
  
Uzbek
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sw
  
uz
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swa
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 2/B
swa
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 3
swa
  
uzb
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swah1254
  
uzbe1247
  
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Swahili and Uzbek Speaking population
Swahili and Uzbek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swahili and Uzbek languages can be compared. The total count of Swahili and Uzbek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swahili language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Uzbek language is 0.39 %. 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 Uzbek on Swahili vs Uzbek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Swahili and Uzbek Language Codes
Swahili and Uzbek language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Swahili and Uzbek Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.