Country Info

Tanzania 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 36,578,712 people (68% of Tanzania) that can read or write at least one language.

16 Writing Systems used in Tanzania

Swahili (Latin)

sw-latn
language code
48,555,810
people

English (Latin)

en-latn
language code
37,226,121
people

Sukuma (Latin)

suk-latn
language code
4,693,728
people

Nyamwezi (Latin)

nym-latn
language code
1,780,379
people

Makonde (Latin)

kde-latn
language code
1,294,821
people

Bena (Latin)

bez-latn
language code
917,165
people

Shambala (Latin)

ksb-latn
language code
917,165
people

Masai (Latin)

mas-latn
language code
809,263
people

Mbunga (Latin)

mgy-latn
language code
755,312
people

Asu (Latin)

asa-latn
language code
647,410
people

Langi (Latin)

lag-latn
language code
469,372
people

Machame (Latin)

jmc-latn
language code
404,631
people

Rombo (Latin)

rof-latn
language code
404,631
people

Vunjo (Latin)

vun-latn
language code
404,631
people

Rwa (Latin)

rwk-latn
language code
118,691
people

Sangu (Latin)

sbp-latn
language code
107,901
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