Language Info
Swahili written in Latin script
Below you'll find all the characters used to write this language and all the countries where this language is used.
Standard Characters
The minimal characters required for this language
Auxiliary Characters
Additional letters (beyond the minimal set) used in foreign or technical words found in typical magazines, newspapers, etc..
Punctuation Characters
The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning
Unicode Blocks
Swahili uses characters from the following Unicode blocks
Countries
The worldwide literate language population for Swahili is 151,550,283 people across 9 countries.
Somalia
220,628 people
Mozambique
9,300 people
Burundi
6,306 people
Mayotte
2,715 people
South Africa
987 people
References
Our data is sourced from a number of places, and we want to give them credit here. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes that support the language.