Africa · ISO 639-3 swh · Glottocode swah1253
Swahili
Swahili tests the representation of an Atlantic-Congo language recorded across several East African source countries.
- Language family
- Atlantic-Congo
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- not endangered
- Macroarea
- Africa
- Source country codes
- BI · KE · MZ · RW · SO · TZ · UG
- Reference point
- -8.256, 37.624
Open research question
How do regional names, domains of use and writing conventions differ without being collapsed into a single area?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.