Language Coverage

22 Languages. 16 Countries.

Covering approximately 171 million L1 speakers and 350M+ total speakers across Southern, Eastern, and Central Africa. Every language deserves world-class NLP.

22
Languages
16
Countries
350M+
Speakers

Coverage by country

Our models are trained on data from 16 countries across Southern, Eastern, and Central Africa. L1 speaker estimates are approximate.

CountryLanguages coveredL1 speakers
🇿🇦South Africa
IsiZuluIsiXhosaSepediSetswanaSesothoXitsongaIsiSwatiTshivenda
~46.0M
🇨🇩DRC
LingalaTshilubaKikongo
~25.3M
🇹🇿Tanzania
KiSwahili
~15.0M
🇷🇼Rwanda
Kinyarwanda
~13.0M
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
ChiShonaIsiNdebeleChiTonga
~12.3M
🇦🇴Angola
UmbunduKimbunduKikongo
~12.1M
🇧🇮Burundi
Kirundi
~11.0M
🇲🇼Malawi
Chichewa
~10.0M
🇿🇲Zambia
BembaChichewaChiTonga
~8.2M
🇺🇬Uganda
Luganda
~5.5M
🇨🇬Republic of Congo
LingalaKikongo
~4.5M
🇲🇿Mozambique
XitsongaChichewa
~2.4M
🇧🇼Botswana
Setswana
~2.0M
🇱🇸Lesotho
Sesotho
~1.9M
🇸🇿Eswatini
IsiSwati
~1.2M
🇰🇪Kenya
KiSwahili
~1.0M
Total22 languages~171M L1

Including L2 speakers (especially KiSwahili at 150-200M L2, Lingala at 20M+ L2), the total reach is 350M+ speakers.

All supported languages

Each language is supported across our Embeddings API, Translation API, and NLP Suite. We're continuously expanding coverage and improving model quality.

zuIsiZulu
12M+ speakers
xhIsiXhosa
8M+ speakers
nsoSepedi
5M+ speakers
tnSetswana
5M+ speakers
stSesotho
6M+ speakers
tsoXitsonga
4M+ speakers
ssIsiSwati
2.5M+ speakers
venTshivenda
1.3M+ speakers
linLingala
20M+ speakers
luaTshiluba
6M+ speakers
konKikongo
5M+ speakers
swaKiSwahili
15M+ L1 speakers
kinKinyarwanda
13M+ speakers
snChiShona
11M+ speakers
ndeIsiNdebele
2M+ speakers
toiChiTonga
1.5M+ speakers
umbUmbundu
6M+ speakers
kmbKimbundu
3M+ speakers
runKirundi
11M+ speakers
nyaChichewa
10M+ speakers
bemBemba
4M+ speakers
lugLuganda
5.5M+ speakers

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