The Swahili Wikipedia ( sw, Wikipedia ya Kiswahili) is the

Swahili language Swahili, also known by its local name , is the native language of the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent litoral islands). It is a Bantu language, though Sw ...

edition of

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. It is the largest edition of Wikipedia in a Niger Kordofern, Niger–Congo or Nilo-Saharan language, followed by the

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. It was mentioned on August 27, 2006, in ''

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'' articles on the struggles of smaller Wikipedia language editions. In 2009,

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sponsored the creation of articles in the Swahili Wikipedia. On June 20, 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia gave its main page a makeover. As of , it has about

articles Article often refers to: * Article (grammar), a grammatical element used to indicate definiteness or indefiniteness * Article (publishing), a piece of nonfictional prose that is an independent part of a publication Article may also refer to: ...

, making it the -largest Wikipedia. The Swahili Wikipedia is the second most popular Wikipedia in Tanzania and Kenya after the English version with respectively 14% and 4% of the visits, as of January 2021.

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External links

* Swahili Wikipedia
Statistics for Swahili Wikipedia
Swahili-language websites Wikipedias by language African encyclopedias Internet properties established in 2006 {{swahili-stub