SiSwati is one of the official languages of South Africa and is the national language of Swaziland. SiSwati is a Bantu language, related to isiZulu, isiXhosa and isiNdebele. SiSwati is usually just called Swati (or Swazi, which comes from Zulu) in English. There are over a million first-language speakers of SiSwati in South Africa alone .The 2001 South African census estimates the number of siSwati speakers to be 1,194,428. At 3% of the population, siSwati speakers make up the third smallest official language group in South Africa. In South Africa most of the speakers of this language are situated in the eastern region of the Mpumalanga province, which borders Swaziland. This summary explores the linguistic derivation of the language, the history of written codification and dialectal variation, and recent attempts to standardize the language in South Africa.
The population in Swaziland, which is predominantly Siswati Speaking stands at just under a Million.