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Name: Swati

Alternate Names: Swazi; Isiswazi; Siswati; Tekela; Tekeza; Phuthi; Siswazi; Thithiza; Yeyeza; Phuthi (in French); Suací (in Spanish)

Spoken in: South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, Lesotho

Number of speakers: 980,000 in Swaziland (2006). Population total all countries: 2,034,200 (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 43000 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 1706924 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: ssw

Code Authority: ISO 639-3

Code Standard: SIL

Families: Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)

Parent Subgroup: Nguni (S.40) (guni)

Child Dialects: Phuthi (ssw-phu) Baca (ssw-bac) Hlubi (ssw-hlu)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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