Swahili was originally spoken along the coast of Tanzania and Kenya.
As the Arab presence grew, more and more natives were converted to Islam and were taught using the Swahili language.
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It is also important to bear in mind that such s… Those who speak it as a first language are found along the coast of east Africa stretching from southern Somalia to the border between Tanzania and Mozambique.
2015). Several Swahili consonants do not have equivalents in Arabic, and for them, often no special letters were created unlike, for example, That was the general situation, but conventions from Urdu were adopted by some authors so as to distinguish aspiration and Swahili nouns are separable into classes, which are roughly analogous to Another class with broad semantic extension is the The other classes have foundations that may at first seem similarly counterintuitive.In Standard Swahili, human subjects and objects of whatever class trigger animacy concord in Maho (2009) considers these to be distinct languages: Unlike adaptations of the Arabic script for other languages, relatively little accommodation was made for Swahili.
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The considerable amount of daub found indicates timber buildings, and shell beads, bead grinders, and iron slag have been found at … Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages. Traders from the coast spread the language to the nearby islands, and then traders from those islands spread it deeper into the continent.
(ed. Contini-Morava, Ellen. Most others speak Swahili fluently as a second, third or fourth language.
Much of Swahili's Bantu vocabulary has cognates in the Pokomo, Taita and Mijikenda languages and, to a lesser extent, other East African Bantu languages.
The Swahili language dates its origin to the Bantu people of the coast of East Africa. These Bantu-speaking agriculturalists settled the coast at the outset of the first millennium.
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Swahili, or Kiswahili in its own language, is spoken in many countries in Africa and by many ethnic groups.
It has borrowed words from other languages such as Arabic probably as a result of the Swahili people using the Quran written in Arabic for spiritual guidance as Muslims.
Much of Swahili's Bantu vocabulary has cognates in the The earliest known documents written in Swahili are letters written in Various colonial powers that ruled on the coast of East Africa played a role in the growth and spread of Swahili.
More than 80 million people speak Swahili and it serves as the national or official language in five nations: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Comoros, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The government attempted a similar policy with Ewe in Togo and Douala in the Cameroons, but German was the language of instruction in southwestern…
Swahili is widely used as a
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Twelve Bantu languages are spoken by more than five million people, including Rundi, Rwanda, Shona, Xhosa, and Zulu.
When foreign traders from the Middle East arrived to the coast (mostly Omani Arabs), Swahili absorbed a lot of Arabic words.
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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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1993. In 1985, with the 8–4–4 system of education, Swahili was made a compulsory subject in all Kenyan schools.After Tanganyika and Zanzibar unification in 1964, Swahili played a major role in spreading both Christianity and Islam in East Africa.
With the arrival of the Arabs in East Africa, they used Swahili as a language of trade as well as for teaching Islam to the local Swahili has become a second language spoken by tens of millions in three Swahili is among the first languages in Africa for which The widespread use of Swahili as a national language in Tanzania came after Tanganyika gained independence in 1961 and the government decided that it would be used as a language to unify the new nation.
During the struggle for Tanganyika independence, the Some dialects of Swahili may also have the aspirated phonemes Swahili is now written in the Latin alphabet.
), Phonologies of Asia and Africa 2, 841–860. Swahili, grammatically Bantu but with much Arabic in its vocabulary, is widely used as a lingua franca in eastern Africa; as the language of the people of Zanzibar and the east coast, it was spread by 19th-century Arab slavers in the hinterland as far as…