frontmatter 
title: "Swahili"
iso639_3: swa
iso639_1: sw
ran: "7/4/en-7/fr-6"
S: 7
M: 4
B_max: 7
ran_sum: 18
speakers: 15437390
tags: [language]

Swahili

7/4/en-7/fr-6

Swahili (ISO 639-3 swa). In words: tens of millions of fluent speakers; tens of thousands of monolingual sentences; tens of millions of sentences parallel with English, millions of sentences parallel with French.

Score breakdown

ComponentDigitRaw countReads asTop corpus
Speakers (S)715,437,390tens of millions—
Monolingual (M)410,964tens of thousands—
Bilingual · English (en)723,513,175tens of millionsNLLB
Bilingual · French (fr)68,057,969millionsCCMatrix

Benchmark performance

Published zero-shot results used to validate the notation (see the RAN Paper).

TaskBenchmarkMetricScore
MTNLLB-200 FLORESchrF++60.7
NERXTREME WikiANN XLM-R LargeF170.5
Note

Macrolanguage (sw); Wikidata count is L1-only

Sources

  • Wikidata: Q7838
  • Counts use the sources this site applies consistently (see the overview) — Ethnologue (speakers), OSCAR 23.01 (monolingual), OPUS (bilingual) — except where this page's notes record a different source. The top corpus for each bilingual partner is shown in the breakdown above.

See the RAN overview for how scores are computed and what they mean.

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