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 Kyrgyz Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Kyrgyz is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch. It is spoken in Central Asia. Kyrgyz is the official language of Kyrgyzstan. it is a significant minority language in the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China. The language is also spoken in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province of Tajikistan. Kyrgyz has a high level of mutual intelligibility with Kyrgyz, Kazakh, and Altay. It is also spoken by many ethnic Kyrgyz former Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Turkey, and many parts of Pakistan, and Russia. Kyrgyz was written in Turkic runes and was replaced by the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It became popular between 1928 and 1940. The language uses the Latin-script alphabet, the Kyrgyz Uniform Turkic Alphabet, and more. In 1940, the Latin script was replaced with the Cyrillic alphabet for all Turkic countries. The language was introduced in Kyrgyzstan when it became independent. The Soviet Union's collapsed in 1991 and was adopted with the Latin alphabet.
