Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
  
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
North Korea, South Korea
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
The National Institute of the Korean Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Chinese and Japanese languages
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Hangul
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Habari
  
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Thank You
Asante
  
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
  
How Are You?
Habari gani?
  
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
  
Good Night
Usiku mwema
  
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
  
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
  
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
  
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
  
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
  
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
  
Please
tafadhali
  
하십시오 (hasibsio)
  
Sorry
pole
  
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
  
Bye
bye
  
안녕 (annyeong)
  
I Love You
nakupenda
  
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
  
Excuse Me
Samahani
  
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
  
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
  
Jeju
  
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kimrima
  
Gyeongsang
  
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Kimgao
  
Hamgyŏng
  
Where They Speak
Kilwa
  
China, North Korea
  
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million
  
13
77.00 million
  
22
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
77.00 million
  
12
Native Name
Not Available
  
한국어 (조선말)
  
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
  
French Name
swahili
  
coréen
  
German Name
Swahili
  
Koreanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Koreans
  
Origin
6th century
  
Before 1st century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Koreanic Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
  
Standard Forms
Swahili
  
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Korean Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
sw
  
ko
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swa
  
kor
  
ISO 639 2/B
swa
  
kor
  
ISO 639 3
swa
  
Kor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swah1254
  
kore1280
  
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
  
45-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Swahili and Korean Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Swahili and Korean greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swahili and Korean language. Swahili word for "Hello" is Habari or Korean word for "Thank You" is 감사합니다 (gamsahabnida). Find more of such common Swahili Greetings and Korean Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swahili vs Korean Difficulty
The Swahili vs Korean difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swahili Alphabets and Korean Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Swahili and Korean are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swahili and Korean, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swahili is 36 weeks while to learn Korean time required is 88 weeks.