The Swahili Wikipedia is the Swahili language

Swahili language

Swahili or Kiswahili is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoro Islands. It is also spoken by ethnic minority groups in Somalia...

 edition of Wikipedia

Wikipedia

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. As of 28 October 2011, the Swahili Wikipedia has over 22,000 articles, making it the 80th-largest Wikipedia. It is also currently one (and the first) of the only two language editions of Wikipedia in Niger–Congo languages

Niger–Congo languages

The Niger–Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families, and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. They may constitute the world's largest language family in terms of distinct languages, although this question...

 with over 1,000 articles, the other being the Yoruba Wikipedia. It is the largest language edition of Wikipedia in a Niger–Congo or Nilo-Saharan language.

It was mentioned on 27 August 2006 in International Herald Tribune

International Herald Tribune

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and New York Newsday articles on the struggles of smaller Wikipedia language editions. In 2009, Google

Google

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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.

External links

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• Statistics for Swahili Wikipedia by Erik Zachte