Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
  
India, Nepal
  
National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
  
Nepal
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
People's Republic of China
  
Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
  
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
  
Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
  
Hindi
  
Derived From
Arabic Language
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Swahili-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Habari
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
Thank You
Asante
  
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
How Are You?
Habari gani?
  
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
Good Night
Usiku mwema
  
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
Good Evening
Habari za jioni
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
  
Good afternoon
  
Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
  
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
Please
tafadhali
  
कृपया
  
Sorry
pole
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Bye
bye
  
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
I Love You
nakupenda
  
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
Excuse Me
Samahani
  
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
Dialect 1
Kiunguja
  
Doteli
  
Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Kimrima
  
Bajhangi
  
Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
  
India, Nepal
  
Dialect 3
Kimgao
  
Baitadeli
  
Where They Speak
Kilwa
  
Nepal
  
How Many People Speak?
150.00 million
  
13
30.00 million
  
36
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
29
Native Name
Not Available
  
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
  
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
French Name
swahili
  
népalais
  
German Name
Swahili
  
Nepali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
  
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
Origin
6th century
  
19 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Bantu
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Standard Forms
Swahili
  
Nepali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Nepali
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
sw
  
ne
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
swa
  
nep
  
ISO 639 2/B
swa
  
nep
  
ISO 639 3
swa
  
npi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
swah1254
  
nepa1254
  
Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
  
12
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Swahili and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Swahili and Nepali language. Swahili word for "Hello" is Habari or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Swahili Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Swahili vs Nepali Difficulty
The Swahili vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Swahili Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Swahili and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Swahili is 36 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.