Atlantic-Congo · East Africa

Swahili

Not endangered

Swahili is documented so far only to the level of long grammar.

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FamilyAtlantic-Congo
StatusNot endangered
DocumentationLong grammar
ISO 639-3swh
Glottocodeswah1253

Spoken in Burundi · Kenya · Mozambique · Rwanda · Somalia · Tanzania · Uganda

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Atlantic-Congo's family tree with Swahili.

  1. Congo Swahili

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  2. Cutchi-Swahili

    Threatened
    Grammar sketch

  3. Chimwiini

    Shifting
    Grammar sketch

  4. Ilwana

    Shifting
    Wordlist or less

  5. Mwani

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  6. Chonyi-Dzihana-Kauma

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

  7. Digo

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  8. Duruma

    Not endangered
    Phonology, text or dictionary

Reference data for Swahili from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)