SiSwati is one of the official languages of South Africa, and is also an official language of Swaziland (along with English). There are 1,194,430 (2.66 %) first language speakers [2001 census data] in South Africa.

SiSwati is a member of the "Nguni" language group, and is most closely related to isiZulu, isiNdebele and isiXhosa.

SiSwati language family tree.

Books

South African Oxford Multilingual Primary Dictionary (Nguni) (OUPSA)
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• TRANSLATION SERVICES TshwaneDJe Language Services (Translation, Proofreading, Editing, Transcription and more, for all official South African languages and most major world languages).

• Ligwalagwala FM

Projects

http://www.translate.org.za/
A non-profit organization translating various OpenSource software packages such as OpenOffice.org and the Mozilla web browser into all official South African languages. They have released isiZulu, Sesotho sa Leboa and Afrikaans versions of OpenOffice.

SiSwati Wikipedia