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Swati language

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Swati is a pashtun tribe that lives in District Battagram and Mansehra of N.W-F.P of Pakistan. They moved from swat to fight the sikhs in the sikh reign in that part of the present Pakistan. Battagram was a tribal area until 1958, when the people of the area themselves wished to be a part of Pakistan.

Swati (also known as siSwati and Swazi) is a Bantu language spoken in Swaziland and South Africa. It has 1.5 million speakers and is taught in schools. It is an official language of Swaziland (along with English) and one of the 11 official languages of South Africa.

The Language Code is ss resp. ssw (ISO 639).

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