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.

Tanzania

48,555,810 people
90.00% literate in Swahili

Congo - Kinshasa

41,650,600 people
50.00% literate in Swahili

Kenya

31,426,362 people
66.00% literate in Swahili

Uganda

29,677,575 people
75.00% literate in Swahili

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.

  1. Unicode CLDR
  2. CLDR Exemplar Characters