Swahili is a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. It is often used as a way for neighboring East African peoples to communicate with each other if t without learning another local language.
Because the Swahili writing system is based on the English alphabet and has no accents, no special accent codes or fonts are needed.
Note: Swahili has an Islamic heritage, and some older documents may be written in the Arabic script.
Language Code: sw
No special codes or fonts are needed for placing Swahili on the Web, but language tags are suggested so that search engines and screen readers parse the language of a page. These are meta data tags which indicate the page of a language, not devices to trigger translation.
Visit the Language Tag page to view information on where to insert it.
