The Swahili Wikipedia () is the

Swahili language Swahili, also known as as it is referred to endonym and exonym, in the Swahili language, is a Bantu languages, Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique (along the East Af ...

edition of

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. It is the largest edition of Wikipedia in a Niger–Congo or

Nilo-Saharan The Nilo-Saharan languages are a proposed family of around 210 African languages spoken by somewhere around 70 million speakers, mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers, including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributari ...

language, followed by the Yoruba Wikipedia. It was mentioned on 27 August 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 20 June 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(s) 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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* Swahili Wikipedia
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