About Swahili Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Swahili is a popular Bantu language that is spoken in Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya. It is also widely spoken in Burundi, Mozambique, Oman, Somalia the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Africa. The total number of native speakers is 98 million. According to a survey in 2012, there are about 47 million speakers in Tanzania and around 34 million in Uganda. You will be surprised to know that there is a small number of speakers in other parts of the world. Swahili is written in the Arabic script and is very much influenced by the Latin alphabet. There are plenty of dialects of Swahili but the modern standard Swahili is based on Kiunguja. Some old dialects include Maho that is distinctive from other dialects. Kimwani is another dialect that is majorly spoken in Mozambique.
About Chinese (Traditional) Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Chinese traditional is spoken by the ethnic Han Chinese majority. This language is spoken by 16% of the world’s population. About 1.3 billion people speak Chinese traditional. Some people consider both Chinese simplified and traditional as two different languages. There is a variety of Chinese languages that is investigated historically. Currently, there are around 13 main regional groups from middle Chinese who speak Mandarin. It is followed by Min that is spoken by 75 million people Shanghainese while Yue is spoken by 68 million Cantonese. The traditional script of Chinese is written in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. The Chinese language consists of tens of thousands of characters. Traditional Chinese is a little more complex as compared to simplified. Some characteristics of simplified are merged with traditional to form the number of characters.
