Summary

Language code sw
Aliased language codes swa, swh
English name of the language Swahili
Text direction Left to right
Case sensitivity Case-sensitive
Number of speakers 194,102,079
Plural: Default plural 127 translations
Number of plurals 2
Plural type One/other
Plurals Singular 1
Plural 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, …
Plural formula n != 1
Plural: Qt Linguist plural 0 translations
Number of plurals 2
Plural type One/other
Plurals Singular 1
Plural 0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, …
Plural formula (n != 1)
03/26/2026

String statistics

Strings percent Hosted strings Words percent Hosted words Characters percent Hosted characters
Total 8,635 45,290 284,449
Approved 2% 201 1% 640 1% 4,612
Waiting for review 6% 581 3% 1,659 4% 11,664
Translated 9% 782 5% 2,299 5% 16,276
Needs editing 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0
Read-only 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0
Failing checks 1% 5 1% 25 1% 170
Strings with suggestions 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0
Untranslated strings 90% 7,853 94% 42,991 94% 268,173

Quick numbers

45,290
Hosted words
8,635
Hosted strings
9%
Translated
and previous 30 days

Trends of last 30 days

+11%
Hosted words
+100%
+12%
Hosted strings
+100%
−1%
Translated
+9%
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The “l10n_ke_edi_oscu/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 03/21/2026
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The “addons/l10n_rw/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 03/21/2026
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The “addons/l10n_ke_edi_tremol/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 03/21/2026
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The “addons/l10n_tz_account/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 03/21/2026
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The “addons/l10n_ke/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 03/21/2026
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The “addons/l10n_ug/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 03/21/2026
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