Swahili, also known as Kiswahili as it is referred to in the Swahili language, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found...

The Swahili people (Swahili: Waswahili, وَسوَحِيلِ) comprise mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab, and Comorian ethnic groups inhabiting the Swahili coast, an area...

Congo Swahili, formerly sometimes known as Zaïre Swahili, are the varieties of the Swahili language spoken in the Democratic Republic of The Congo. Congo...

Standard Swahili language arose during the colonial era as the homogenised version of the dominant dialects of the Swahili language. Standard Swahili enabled...

The Swahili coast (Swahili: Pwani ya Waswahili) is a coastal area of East Africa, bordered by the Indian Ocean and inhabited by the Swahili people. It...

of Congo. Swahili people speak Swahili as their native language, which belongs to the Bantu language family. Graham Connah described Swahili culture as...

The Swahili Ajami script refers to the alphabet derived from the Arabic script that is used for the writing of the Swahili language. Ajami is a name commonly...

Socotra Swahili is an extinct Bantu language that was spoken in Socotra, Yemen. It was reported to be spoken by a fifth of the island (c. 2,000 people)...

of Bantu languages, are found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The most widely spoken Ntu language by number of speakers is Swahili, with 16 million...

Look up Swahili or swahili in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Swahili may refer to: Swahili language, a Bantu language officially used in Tanzania, Kenya...

adopting Swahili as a second official language due to its perceived neutrality; however, this proposal has not yet been ratified by the government. Swahili is...

The Swahili Wikipedia (Swahili: Wikipedia ya Kiswahili) is the Swahili language edition of Wikipedia. It is the largest edition of Wikipedia in a Niger–Congo...

World Swahili Language Day (Swahili: Siku ya Kiswahili ya Umoja wa Mataifa duniani) is observed annually on 7 July. This began when UNESCO declared 7...

Swahili literature is literature written in the Swahili language, particularly by Swahili people of the East African coast and the neighboring islands...

Swahili is a Bantu language which is native to or mainly spoken in the East African region. It has a grammatical structure that is typical for Bantu languages...

role, UN Language Days, and starting in 2018, the UN News website providing translations into non-official languages such as Portuguese, Swahili, Hindi...

Comoros. Like Swahili, the Comorian languages are Sabaki languages, part of the Bantu language family. Each island has its own language, and the four...

There are many languages spoken in the country, none of which is spoken natively by a majority or a large plurality of the population. Swahili and English...

The Sabaki languages are the Bantu languages of the Swahili Coast, named for the Sabaki River. In addition to Swahili, Sabaki languages include Ilwana...

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Kutchi-Swahili, or Cutchi-Swahili, is a Swahili-based creole derived from the Kutchi language of the Kutch district in the Indian state of Gujarat and...

German spellings. The language is sometimes distinguished as Hazane, "of the Hadza".[citation needed] Tindiga is from Swahili watindiga "people of the...

official languages of Kenya, Swahili and English, are widely spoken as lingua francas; however, including second-language speakers, Swahili is more widely...

(60%) with Swahili, it is not intelligible with it. It is spoken by around 167,150 people (including 147,150 who speak it as a first language and 20,000...

Mozambique and Angoche, their influence in the development of the Swahili language, and their opulent wealth. The East African coastal area and the nearby...

applications to the Swahili language. It is based in Tanzania and run on Linux, and aims to create an operating system in Swahili, which is spoken by...

a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, link language or language of wider communication (LWC), is a language systematically...

children allowed to participate in Miss Universe 2025]. Mwananchi (in Swahili). Archived from the original on 29 July 2025. Retrieved 29 July 2025. Official...

Soomaali" (in Somali). BBC. Retrieved 29 December 2024. "BBC Swahili Radio" (in Swahili). BBC. Retrieved 29 December 2024. "BBC launches first social...

Information Service (SIS). "Mwimbaji Bi Kidude aaga Dunia Zanzibar". BBC Swahili (in Swahili). 17 April 2013. Retrieved 2018-02-23. Helsel, Phil; Rudansky, Andrew...