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TTN translates from German, French, English and Italian into Swahili – and vice versa. Specialised translators who are native speakers, quality assurance according to ISO 17100, a quote in three clicks.
About Swahili
- Native name
- Kiswahili
- ISO code
- ISO 639-1: sw · ISO 639-3: swa
- Language family
- Niger-Congo › Bantu
- Script
- Latin
- Native speakers
- 18 million
- Second-language speakers
- 70 million
- Official language in
- Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda
- Also spoken in
- Congo (DRC), Burundi, Mozambique, Somalia
Official language
Also spoken
Swahili is the most important lingua franca of East Africa and a working language of the African Union. Most of its speakers learn it as a second language; its vocabulary contains many Arabic loanwords. Source: Wikipedia / Ethnologue, 2025
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