1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Russia
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Habari
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
3.4 Good Night
Usiku mwema
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
3.8 Please
tafadhali
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
3.11 I Love You
nakupenda
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
3.12 Excuse Me
Samahani
извините(izvinite)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kiunguja
Doukhobor Russian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA30,000.00
1.5
960000000
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 million276.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million166.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA110.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Russki
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Russians
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
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
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-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic