Country Info

Kenya Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 41,616,124 people (87% of Kenya) that can read or write at least one language.

20 Writing Systems used in Kenya

Swahili (Latin)

sw-latn
language code
31,426,362
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
9,046,983
people

Kikuyu (Latin)

ki-latn
language code
8,094,669
people

Luyia (Latin)

luy-latn
language code
5,237,727
people

Luo (Latin)

luo-latn
language code
4,666,338
people

Kamba (Latin)

kam-latn
language code
3,618,793
people

Kalenjin (Latin)

kln-latn
language code
3,618,793
people

Gusii (Latin)

guz-latn
language code
2,333,169
people

Meru (Latin)

mer-latn
language code
1,904,628
people

Masai (Latin)

mas-latn
language code
761,851
people

Embu (Latin)

ebu-latn
language code
714,235
people

Somali (Latin)

so-latn
language code
619,004
people

Taita (Latin)

dav-latn
language code
390,448
people

Teso (Latin)

teo-latn
language code
352,356
people

Pökoot (Latin)

pko-latn
language code
333,309
people

Oromo (Latin)

om-latn
language code
223,793
people

Samburu (Latin)

saq-latn
language code
219,032
people

Arabic (Arabic)

ar-arab
language code
21,903
people

Punjabi (Gurmukhi)

pa-guru
language code
9,999
people

Gujarati (Gujarati)

gu-gujr
language code
5,237
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR