Language code: ss
Technical information about ISO 639 language code ss
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The table below provides technical details for the Swati language, designated by the ss code from the ISO 639-1 standard.
| Code |
|
| Standard | |
| Name | Official Swati Native SiSwati |
| Family | Bantu |
| Text direction | Left-to-Right |
| Language varieties | Hhohho (Northern Swati)Manzini (Central Swati)Lubombo (Eastern Swati)Shiselweni (Southern Swati) |
| Related languages | ZuluXhosaSouthern NdebeleNorthern Ndebele |
| Key facts | Member of the Nguni branch of the Bantu familyContains click consonants borrowed from Khoisan languagesWritten with the Latin alphabet plus extra letters such as ɓ, ǀ, ǃ to mark distinctive consonantsShares about 70 % lexical similarity with ZuluHas a rich noun-class system of more than fifteen classes |
| Sample phrase | Sawubona, unjani? |
| Character encodings | |
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Swati belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, more specifically to the Bantu subgroup. It is one of the official languages of Eswatini and South Africa. It is written using the Latin script. It is estimated to have around 4.5 million speakers worldwide.
Language presence globally
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Swati speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
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- What is Localizely?
- Getting started
- Localization workflow
- Translation editor
- Flutter Over-the-Air updates
- Flutter In-Context Editing
- Project branching
- Professional translation services
- Machine Translation
- AI Translation
- Translation Memory
- Glossary
- Reports and statistics
- Figma integration
- AWS S3 integration
- GitHub integration
- GitLab integration
- Bitbucket integration
- CLI
- Configuration file
- Supported file formats
- Language & Country Codes
- Referral Program
- I18N Questions
- FAQ