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 159 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)
06/10/2026

String statistics

Strings percent Hosted strings Words percent Hosted words Characters percent Hosted characters
Total 10,830 56,223 352,740
Approved 1% 201 1% 640 1% 4,612
Waiting for review 6% 739 3% 2,101 4% 14,856
Translated 8% 940 4% 2,741 5% 19,468
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 91% 9,890 95% 53,482 94% 333,272

Quick numbers

56,223
Hosted words
10,830
Hosted strings
8%
Translated
and previous 30 days

Trends of last 30 days

+19%
Hosted words
+100%
+20%
Hosted strings
+100%
−1%
Translated
+9%
Contributors
+100%
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The “addons/l10n_tz_account/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 06/06/2026
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The “addons/l10n_rw/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 06/06/2026
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The “addons/l10n_ug/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 06/06/2026
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The “addons/l10n_ke/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 06/06/2026
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The “addons/l10n_ke_edi_tremol/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 06/06/2026
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The “addons/l10n_tz_account/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 05/30/2026
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The “addons/l10n_ke_edi_tremol/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 05/30/2026
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The “addons/l10n_ke/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 05/30/2026
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The “addons/l10n_rw/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 05/30/2026
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The “addons/l10n_ug/i18n/sw.po” file was changed. 05/30/2026
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