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| Swahili Language | |
|---|---|
| Kiswahili | |
| Spoken natively in | File:Flag of Burundi.jpg Burundi DR CongoFile:Flag of the Comoros.png Comoros (as Comorian)  Kenya Mozambique OmanFile:Flag of the Seychelles.png Seychelles (as Shimaore)  MauritiusFile:Flag of Rwanda.png Rwanda  Tanzania Uganda Malawi[1] |
| Native speakers | First language: 5–10 million First and second language: 50+ million[2] (date missing) |
| Language family | Niger-Congo
|
| Writing system | Latin, Arabic |
| Official status | |
| Official language in | African Union Kenya Tanzania Uganda |
| Regulated by | Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa (Tanzania) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | sw |
| ISO 639-2 | swa |
| ISO 639-3 | swa – inclusive code Individual codes: swc – Congo Swahili swh – Coastal Swahili |
| Linguasphere | 99-AUS-m |
[[File:
Coastal areas where Swahili or Comorian is the indigenous language,
official or national language,
and trade language. As a trade language, Swahili extends some distance further to the northwest. |300px]] | |
- ↑ Ethnologue list of countries where Swahili is spoken
Thomas J. Hinnebusch, 1992, "Swahili", International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford, pp. 99–106
David Dalby, 1999/2000, The Linguasphere Register of the World's Languages and Speech Communities, Linguasphere Press, Volume Two, pg. 733–735
Benji Wald, 1994, "Sub-Saharan Africa", Atlas of the World's Languages, Routledge, pp. 289–346, maps 80, 81, 85 - ↑ Lutz Marten, "Swahili", Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., 2006, Elsevier
