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 736 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)
09/12/2026

String statistics

Strings percent Hosted strings Words percent Hosted words Characters percent Hosted characters
Total 38,660 710,624 5,046,223
Approved 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0
Waiting for review 1% 413 1% 4,111 1% 27,541
Translated 1% 436 1% 4,146 1% 27,827
Needs editing 1% 50 1% 508 1% 3,381
Read-only 1% 23 1% 35 1% 286
Failing checks 1% 58 1% 488 1% 3,950
Strings with suggestions 1% 159 1% 1,877 1% 14,474
Untranslated strings 98% 38,174 99% 705,970 99% 5,015,015

Quick numbers

710 k
Hosted words
38,660
Hosted strings
1%
Translated
and previous 30 days

Trends of last 30 days

Hosted words
+1%
Hosted strings
+1%
Translated
+50%
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Parsing of the “help/sw/sw.po” file was enforced. 08/28/2026
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Parsing of the “po/sw.po” file was enforced. 08/28/2026
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