1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Abkhazia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Not Available
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Adyghe language, Abaza language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Caucasian languages
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
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Habari
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
3.4 Good Night
Usiku mwema
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
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
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million0.13 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million0.13 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Abxazo, Abkhazian
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Abkhaz people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Northwest Caucasian
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative