where is swahili in africa
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Swahili language Swahili language. Swahili language, also called kiSwahili, or Kiswahili, Bantu language spoken either as a mother tongue or as a fluent second language on the east coast of Africa in an area extending from Lamu Island, Kenya, in the north to the southern border of Tanzania in the south.
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History and cultural facts of the Swahili people The Swahili tribe are a coastal people with a very rich historical and cultural heritage. Some of the earliest inhabitants of the East African coast were their ancestors, Cushitic herdsmen. The Cushitic people were joined by Bantu speaking tribes, including the Mijikenda, with whom they freely inter-married.
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History and cultural facts of the Swahili people Language of the Swahili people. The Swahili people speak Swahili (or Kiswahili), a language adapted from the Bantu and enriched with some vocabulary from the Arabic, Portuguese and Hindi languages. Among the native Swahili speakers, there exist several Swahili dialects. The most well known Swahili dialects include: Amu, spoken by the Lamu people; Mvita, a dialect of the Mombasa Swahilis; Pemba, a dialect spoken in Pemba; and Unguja, a dialect spoken in Zanzibar.
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Useful Swahili Words For those who get a chance to visit Zanzibar, Tanzania, they can have Swahili lessons from the Institute of Kiswahili and Foreign Languages of the State University of Zanzibar. Follow the link for more information. Various universities in North America, Europe, and Asia, also offer such lessons.
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How many countries in Africa speak Swahili? Swahili is spoken throughout a wide swath of East and Central Africa. Swahili is the most widely spoken African language, with somewhere between 50 and 100 million speakers in East Africa and Central Africa, particularly in Tanzania (including Zanzibar) and Kenya.
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History and cultural facts of the Swahili people Today, the Swahili tribe reside in most of the coastal towns in Kenya and Tanzania, including Mombasa and Malindi, and on the Indian Ocean islands of Lamu, Pemba and Zanzibar.oday, the Swahili tribe reside in most of the coastal towns in Kenya and Tanzania, including Mombasa and Malindi, and on the Indian Ocean islands of Lamu, Pemba and Zanzibar.
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List of national capital city name etymologies Where is Swahili spoken? Swahili has official language status in Tanzania and Kenya and is also widely spoken in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Comoros Islands. It’s also spoken by smaller numbers in Burundi, Rwanda, Northern Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. The word for the Swahili language is Kiswahili. The name comes from the plural sawahili of the Arabic word sahil, which means boundaries or coast. With ki- at the beginning of the word, Kiswahili means coastal language.
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- The Swahili language is currently spoken on the eastern coast of Africa in an area ranging from the Lamu Island of Kenya in the north to southern Tanzania. It is most commonly found in Tanzania, Kenya, Congo and Uganda.
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Swahili language Swahili serves as a national language of four nations: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shikomor, the official language in Comoros and also spoken in Mayotte (Shimaore), is related to Swahili.Swahili is also one of the official languages of the African Union and East African Community.t is a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of Southeast Africa, including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The closely related Comorian language, spoken in the Comoros Islands, is sometimes considered a dialect.
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Swahili (Kiswahili / ÙÙØ³ÙÙÙÙÙ) Swahili (Kiswahili / كِسوَهِل). Swahili is a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania, Burundi, Congo (Kinshasa) Kenya, Mayotte, Mozambique, Oman, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, UAE and the USA. Around 5 million people speak Swahili as a native language, and a further 135 million speak is as a second language. includes details of the Swahili alphabet and pronunciation; a guide to Swahili pronouns, sentence structure and sentence construction; useful words and phrases in various scenarios, and an English-Swahili dictionary.
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- In May 2007, Matalan launched a 'Partyshop' department at its Preston store named 'M Party'. This has now extended to around ten stores across the country including three in west Scotland. During 2008, M Party was rolled out, to a further 55 stores within the company.
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- Swahili's flexibility is also evident in a new urban language that is spoken in Kenya's cities, especially in Nairobi. Swahili, English, and other ethnic languages are combined into a new language called Sheng.Sheng uses the grammar and syntax of Swahili, but incorporates other languages, mainly English.It is a language associated with Kenya's urban youth.uo is the only Nilotic language spoken in Kenya. Nilotic languages, which are also spoken in Sudan, Uganda, and Tanzania, are members of the Nilo-Saharan language family.
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Swahili a member of a Bantu people of Zanzibar and the neighboring coast of Africa. 2. Also, Kiswahili, ki-Swahili. the Bantu language of the Swahili people, used also as a lingua franca in Tanzania, Kenya, and parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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- Basic Swahili (Kiswahili) for travelers to Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Learn some Swahili (Kiswahili) and traveling in East Africa will be even more rewarding.
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Why Swahili? Swahili (or Kiswahili as it is called when one is speaking the language) is the most important and widely studied indigenous language of Africa, the National and official language of Kenya and Tanzania.
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Swahili people The Swahili people (or Waswahili) are an ethnic and cultural group inhabiting East Africa. Members primarily reside on the Swahili coast, in an area encompassing the Zanzibar archipelago, littoral Kenya, the Tanzania seaboard, and northern Mozambique. The name Swahili is derived from the Arabic word Sawāhil سواحل, meaning coasts.
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Swazi language >3000 /km². The Swazi or Swati language (Swazi: siSwati [siswatʼi]) is a Bantu language of the Nguni group spoken in Swaziland and South Africa by the Swazi people. The number of speakers is estimated to be in the region of 3 million.
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- Victim by victim, AIDS is steadily boring through the heart of the small town of Lavumisa in southern Swaziland. AIDS is still stigmatized in Africa, and orphans suffer most. AIDS March, October 8-12, 2005 in Washington DC (September 18-October 8, caravans across the U.
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Swahili language Swahili serves as a national language of four nations: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Shikomor, the official language in Comoros and also spoken in Mayotte (Shimaore), is related to Swahili.Swahili is also one of the official languages of the African Union and East African Community.lthough only around five to fifteen million people speak Swahili as their first language, it is used as a lingua franca in much of Southeast Africa. Estimates of the total number of Swahili speakers vary widely, from 60 million to over 150 million.
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Swahili Baby names of Swahili Origin. Swahili baby names are used by people who speak Swahili, in eastern Africa, especially at the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique. Swahili is the official language of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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- SisSwati is one of South Africa's minority languages, spoken by only 2.5% of South Africans, or just under 1.3-million people. It is the language of the Swazi nation, spoken mainly in eastern Mpumalanga, an area that borders the Kingdom of Swaziland.isSwati is one of South Africa's minority languages, spoken by only 2.5% of South Africans, or just under 1.3-million people. It is the language of the Swazi nation, spoken mainly in eastern Mpumalanga, an area that borders the Kingdom of Swaziland.
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What is the difference between KiSwahili and Swahili? Some schools of thought say that Swahili refers to the culture and the language whereas Kiswahili refers to strictly the language.IN ADDITION: Kiswahili is the Swahili word for language, and Swahili is the form used in English and many other languages.But they mean the same thing: the language spoken by the Swahili people (and by millions of others,, too).In Swahili, a Swahili person is Mswahili (pl., Waswahili), and the Swahili culture is utamaduni wa kiswahili, referring to the coastal people along the Indian Ocean in East Africa and the nearby islands.ut they mean the same thing: the language spoken by the Swahili people (and by millions of others,, too). In Swahili, a Swahili person is Mswahili (pl., Waswahili), and the Swahili culture is utamaduni wa kiswahili, referring to the coastal people along the Indian Ocean in East Africa and the nearby islands.
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Tanzania Facts Language: Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages.
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Swahili This can be explained by the fact that it is spoken in many different countries. 1  Kiunguja which originated on the island of Zanzibar is considered to be the standard. 2  Mambrui (Malindi) 3  Mgao (Kimgao) 4  Mrima (Mtang’ata) 5  Pemba. 6  Unguja (Kiunguja, Zanzibar).
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East Africa's Swahili Coast Cultural Places. more... East Africa's Swahili Coast. The east coast of Africa experiences seasonally alternating ‘trade’ winds which have enabled sailing dhows to travel up and down the coast, fostering the movement of people and goods between the countries of Arabia, the Western Indian Ocean and East Africa for many centuries.
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Talk:Swahili language The Article states that Swahili is the most widely spoken langauge in Africa with 50 million speakers. That is wrong, there at least twice as many native speakers of Arabic. I also suspect that there are also more speakers of French in West Africa. Somebody should fix that statement.