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Swahili Wikipedia

URL	sw.wikipedia.org
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Type of site	Internet encyclopedia project
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Available language(s)	Swahili
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation

The Swahili Wikipedia (Swahili: Wikipedia ya Kiswahili) is the Swahili language edition of Wikipedia. It is currently one (and the first) of the only four language editions of Wikipedia in Niger–Congo languages with over 1,000 articles.^[1] It is the second-largest language edition of Wikipedia in a Niger–Congo or Nilo-Saharan language, after the Yoruba Wikipedia.

It was mentioned on 27 August 2006 in International Herald Tribune and New York Newsday articles on the struggles of smaller Wikipedia language editions.^[2] In 2009, Google sponsored the creation of articles in the Swahili Wikipedia.^[3] On 20 June 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia gave its main page a makeover. As of May 2013, it has about 25,000 articles, making it the 80th-largest Wikipedia.^[4]

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^ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias_by_language_group
^ Building Wikipedia in African languages, by Noam Cohen, International Herald Tribune, 27 August 2006.
^ Kiswahili Wikipedia Challenge, sponsored by Google
^ http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

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(Swahili) Swahili Wikipedia
(Swahili) Swahili Wikipedia mobile version
Statistics for Swahili Wikipedia by Erik Zachte

v t e List of Wikipedias by article count

4,000,000+	English (en)

1,000,000+	German (de) Dutch (nl) French (fr) Italian (it) Spanish (es) Russian (ru)

500,000+	Swedish (sv) Polish (pl) Japanese (ja) Portuguese (pt) Chinese (zh) Vietnamese (vi)

200,000+	Ukrainian (uk) Catalan (ca) Norwegian (Bokmål) (no) Waray-Waray (war) Cebuano (ceb) Finnish (fi) Persian (fa) Czech (cs) Hungarian (hu) Korean (ko) Arabic (ar) Romanian (ro) Malay (ms) Turkish (tr) Indonesian (id) Kazakh (kk)

100,000+	Serbian (sr) Slovak (sk) Esperanto (eo) Danish (da) Lithuanian (lt) Basque (eu) Bulgarian (bg) Hebrew (he) Slovene (sl) Croatian (hr) Uzbek (uz) Volapük (vo) Estonian (et) Hindi (hi) Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Galician (gl)

50,000+	Azerbaijani (az) Belarusian (be) Georgian (ka) Greek (el) Haitian Creole (ht) Latin (la) Macedonian (mk) Nepal Bhasa (new) Occitan (oc) Piedmontese (pms) Simple English (simple) Serbo-Croatian (sh) Tagalog (tl) Tamil (ta) Telugu (te) Thai (th)

20,000+	Afrikaans (af) Albanian (sq) Aragonese (an) Armenian (hy) Aromanian (roa-rup) Bashkir (ba) Belarusian (be-x-old) Bengali (bn) Bishnupriya Manipuri (bpy) Bosnian (bs) Breton (br) Burmese (my) Cantonese (zh-yue) Gujarati (gu) Icelandic (is) Ido (io) Javanese (jv) Kyrgyz (ky) Latvian (lv) Lombard (lmo) Low Saxon (nds) Luxembourgish (lb) Malagasy (mg) Malayalam (ml) Maltese (mt) Marathi (mr) Nepali (ne) Sicilian (scn) Swahili (sw) Tatar (tt) Urdu (ur) Welsh (cy) West Frisian (fy) Western Punjabi (pnb) Yoruba (yo)

10,000+	Alemannic (als) Amharic (am) Asturian (ast) Banyumasan (map-bms) Buginese (bug) Chuvash (cv) Corsican (co) Egyptian Arabic (arz) Fiji Hindi (hif) Interlingua (ia) Irish (ga) Kannada (kn) Kurdish (ku) Mazandarani (mzn) Min Nan (zh-min-nan) Neapolitan (nap) Quechua (qu) Samogitian (bat-smg) Scots (sco) Scottish Gaelic (gd) Sorani (ckb) Sundanese (su) Tajik (tg) Walloon (wa)

5,000+	Bavarian (bar) Central Bicolano (bcl) Chavacano (cbk-zam) Dutch Low Saxon (nds-nl) Faroese (fo) Gan (gan) Gilaki (glk) Hill Mari (mrj) Ilokano (ilo) Kapampangan (pam) Limburgish (li) Māori (mi) Minangkabau (min) Mongolian (mn) Nahuatl (nah) Northern Sami (se) Ossetian (os) Punjabi (pa) Rusyn (rue) Sakha (sah) Sanskrit (sa) Sinhala (si) Tarantino (roa-tara) Tibetan (bo) Upper Sorbian (hsb) Venetian (vec) Võro (fiu-vro) Wu (wuu) Yiddish (yi) Zazaki (diq)

2,000+	Assamese (as) Aymara (ay) Bihari (bh) Classical Chinese (zh-classical) Cornish (kw) Extremaduran (ext) Franco-Provençal (frp) Friulian (fur) Gagauz (gag) Guarani (gn) Hakka (hak) Interlingue (ie) Kashubian (csb) Khmer (km) Komi (kv) Komi-Permyak (koi) Ladino (lad) Ligurian (lij) Lingala (ln) Maldivian (dv) Manx (gv) Meadow Mari (mhr) Mingrelian (xmf) Navajo (nv) Norman (nrm) North Frisian (frr) Novial (nov) Old English (ang) Oriya (or) Pali (pi) Pangasinan (pag) Pashto (ps) Picard (pcd) Ripuarian (ksh) Romansh (rm) Sardinian (sc) Saterland Frisian (stq) Silesian (szl) Somali (so) Turkmen (tk) Udmurt (udm) Uyghur (ug) Veps (vep) West Flemish (vls) Zealandic (zea)

1,000+	Acehnese (ace) Avar (av) Banjar (bjn) Buryat (bxr) Chechen (ce) Crimean Tatar (crh) Emiliano–Romagnolo (eml) Erzya (myv) Greenlandic (kl) Hawaiian (haw) Kabyle (ka) Kalmyk (xal) Karachay-Balkar (krc) Kinyarwanda (rw) Lak (lbe) Lezgian (lez) Lojban (jbo) Lower Sorbian (dsb) Moksha (mdf) Palatinate German (pfl) Papiamento (pap) Pennsylvania German (pdc) Shona (sn) Sranan (srn) Syriac (arc) Tok Pisin (tpi) Tongan (to) Wolof (wo)

500+	Abkhazian (ab) Cheyenne (chy) Igbo (ig) Karakalpak (kaa) Kabardian Circassian (kbd) Kongo (kg) Lao (lo) Latgalian (ltg) Mirandese (mwl) Nauruan (na) Northern Sotho (nso) Old Church Slavonic (cu) Romani (rmy) Tahitian (ty) Tetum (tet) Zhuang (za) Zulu (zu)

200+	Bambara (bm) Bislama (bi) Cherokee (chr) Ewe (ee) Fijian (fj) Gothic (got) Hausa (ha) Inuktitut (iu) Kashmiri (ks) Gikuyu (ki) Min Dong (cdo) Moldovan (mo) Norfolk (pih) Oromo (om) Pontic (pnt) Samoan (sm) Sindhi (sd) Swati (ss) Tigrinya (ti) Tsonga (ts) Tswana (tn)

100+	Akan (ak) Chamorro (ch) Chichewa (ny) Cree (cr) Dzongkha (dz) Fula (ff) Inupiak (ik) Kirundi (rn) Luganda (lg) Sotho (st) Sango (sg) Tumbuka (tum) Twi (tw) Venda (ve) Xhosa (xh)

v t e African language editions of Wikipedia by number of articles

20,000+	Malagasy mg: Yoruba yo: Afrikaans af: Swahili sw:

10,000+	Amharic am: Egyptian Arabic arz:

2,000+	Somali so: Lingala ln:

1,000+	Kinyarwanda rw: Kabyle kab: Shona sn: Wolof wo:

500+	Kikongo kg: Igbo ig: Northern Sotho nso: Zulu zu:

200+	Tswana tn: Bambara bm: Swati ss: Ewe ee: Tigrinya ti: Tsonga ts: Hausa lg: Oromo om: Kikuyu ki:

100+	Venda ve: Sango sg: Kirundi rn: Luganda lg: Akan ak: Tumbuka tum: Fula ff: Sotho st: Twi tw: Chichewa ny: Xhosa xh:

1+	Herero hz: Afar aa: Ndonga ng: Kwanyama kj: Kanuri kr:

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