Language code: sw

Technical information about ISO 639 language code sw

Technical information about sw language code (Swahili) is available below.

ISO code

sw

Language

Official

Swahili

Native

Kiswahili

Scripts
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Plural rules

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Swahili belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, specifically to the Bantu subgroup. It is one of the official languages in Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda. It is also used by Swahili minority communities in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, and Zambia. Swahili is written using both Latin and Arabic scripts. It is estimated that there are between 80 and 100 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Swahili speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

sw-CD Swahili (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

sw-KE Swahili (Kenya)

sw-TZ Swahili (Tanzania)

sw-UG Swahili (Uganda)

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