Swahili

Kiswahili [kiswahili]

Countries

Tanzania

Number of speakers

c. 140 million

Language family

Niger-Congo (Atlantic-Congo subfamily)

letter frequency

a
23.15%
i
11.29%
u
7.58%
k
7.19%
n
6.24%
h
4.73%
m
4.22%
w
4.19%
e
4.13%
t
3.65%

Bigram frequency

wa
4.11%
na
3.6%
ha
3.18%
ya
2.81%
ki
2.61%

Trigram frequency

ana
1.63%
aki
1.55%
kwa
1.49%
hak
1.49%
cha
1.04%