SWAHILI LANGUAGE

Various dictionaries of the Swahili language can be found here.



The Swahili language is one of the Niger-Congo languages. It is a living macrolanguage with ISO 639 code [swa].

Swahili is native to Swahili people and also used as lingua franca. This language is distributed in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and DR Kongo as well as some other countries. The total of speakers is about 18'000'000. The Latin and Arabic scripts are used for writing.

See more information about this language inside the books offered below or on Wikipedia and follow the explanatory links. There you can learn about its history, phonology, grammar, vocabulary and more on.

A database of the project includes 3'769 lemmas translated in Swahili.

Multi Linguis offers 3 types of dictionaries - Original, Learner's and Small.

The Original Dictionaries are alphabetical, while the Learner's and Small are frequency-thematic.

The Original and Learner's Dictionaries can include up to 12'000 lemmas. They are divided into 8 importance levels from Beginner to Upper-Intermediate (corresponding to the CEFR levels A1-B2), as well as 300 vocabulary themes grouped into 30 superthemes.

The Small Dictionaries are sets of vocabularies of related languages, each includes up to 999 lemmas.

Entries in any type of books contain translations and transliterations. In the Learner's and Small Dictionaries they additionally provide transcriptions.