hunspell-sw software package provides Swahili dictionary for hunspell, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install hunspell-sw
hunspell-sw is installed in your system.
Make ensure the hunspell-sw package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep hunspell-sw *
You will get with hunspell-sw package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | hunspell-sw |
| Version | 1:5.1.0-1ubuntu2 |
| Description | Swahili dictionary for hunspell |
| Sub Section | Text |