1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Iraq, Kurdistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Farsi Language
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
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
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
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
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
Evare baş
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
Nee-wa-rowt bash
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
Bayanit bash
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
nakupenda
Ez te hez dikem
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Northern Kurdish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA20,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA5,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA3,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Kurds
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th century
16th century CE
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Not Available
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Macrolanguage
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
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
Not Available