About Tamil Language
According to Wikipedia.org, Tamil Language is spoken in India and is a part of the Dravidian language family. It is the official language of Tamil Nadu state, Srilanka, and even Singapore. There are a lot of speakers of Tamil in Malaysia, Mauritius, Fiji, and South Africa. It was in 2004 when Tamil was declared as the official language in India. This language has an independent and distinctive nature. It is strongly inspired by ancient literature. More than 66 million people speak Tamil. Just like many other Dravidian languages, Tamil features a series of consonants. There are a lot of Tamil dialects but they are very much different from one another. They all have gone through different phonological changes. Some dialects are more similar to the Old Tamil while others resemble the modern Tamil. Most of them don’t have any difference in vocabulary but there can be some exceptions at times.
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.
