1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Pakistan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Arabic and Hindi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Ghaznavid Persian Language
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
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
سلام علیکم
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
گڈ آفٹر نون
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
گڈ مارننگ
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
nakupenda
مجھے تم سے محبت
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA11,000,000.00
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 million104.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million61.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Bihari
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
6th century
12th 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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Swahili
Modern Standard Urdu
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Urdu
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
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology