sw
Technical information about ISO 639 language code sw
Technical information about sw
language code (Swahili) is available below.
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.
*The graph shows a rough estimate of Swahili speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.
sw-CD
– Swahili (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
sw-KE
– Swahili (Kenya)
sw-TZ
– Swahili (Tanzania)
sw-UG
– Swahili (Uganda)
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