Swahili

Overview

Family Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Bantoid, Southern, Narrow Bantu, Central, G, Swahili(G.40).
Language code (subtag) swh
Population 313,200 monolinguals or 1.8%, 93.4% bilinguals in Tanzania (1982 Polom?). Population total all countries 5,000,000 first language speakers
Alias Kiswahili, Kisuaheli
Dialects Mrima, Unguja (Kiunguja, Zanzibar), Pemba, Mgao
Writing system Latin script (subtag: Latn).
Ethnologue http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=swh

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