Swati

About Swati

Swati, siSwati, is the national language of Eswatini, where it is official together with English, and it is also an official language of South Africa, spoken mainly in Mpumalanga province. It is a Bantu language closely related to Zulu, and speakers of the two understand each other well. Like Zulu it has click sounds, and hello is sawubona.

FamilyNiger-Congo, Bantu (Nguni)
Official inEswatini, South Africa
ScriptLatin alphabet
Codesss (ISO 639-1), ssw (ISO 639-3)

Classification: Wikidata. Retrieved 26 September 2026.

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