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Tanzania

Tanzania is home to 147 languages, spoken across East Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.

Capital Dodoma (official); Dar es Salaam (de facto)
Nationality Tanzanian
Currency Tanzanian Shilling (TZS)
Languages 147
Independence Dec 9, 1961
134 active 10 endangered 3 extinct

Where the languages are spoken

Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Tanzania; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.

Active Endangered Extinct fewer / more speakers

Bubbles show a language's approximate centre, not its full extent. Speaker figures are our own estimates where a language lives in one country, and sourced per-country estimates where it crosses borders.

All languages in Tanzania

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