The earliest examples of writing in Swahili are from 1711. In the early 19th century the use of Swahili as a lingua franca moved inland with the Arabic... 76 KB (7,688 words) - 12:16, 24 April 2024 |
The Swahili people (Swahili: WaSwahili, وَسوَحِيلِ) comprise mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab and Comorian ethnic groups inhabiting the Swahili coast, an area encompassing... 29 KB (3,084 words) - 19:17, 23 April 2024 |
languages of Kenya, Swahili and English are widely spoken as lingua francas; however, including second-language speakers, Swahili is more widely spoken... 6 KB (521 words) - 17:37, 18 April 2024 |
This is a list of lingua francas. A lingua franca is a language systematically used to make communication possible between people not sharing a first language... 75 KB (9,537 words) - 13:54, 2 April 2024 |
Portuguese language (redirect from Língua portuguesa) Portuguese (endonym: português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the... 158 KB (14,098 words) - 10:53, 27 April 2024 |
population. Swahili and English, the latter of which was inherited from colonial rule (see Tanganyika Territory), are widely spoken as lingua francas. They... 9 KB (571 words) - 06:02, 20 April 2024 |
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... 38 KB (4,725 words) - 13:08, 12 March 2024 |
Bravanese dialect (redirect from Bravanese dialect of Swahili) (ChiMwini, Mwiini, Mwini) or Chimbalazi, is a Bantu language related to Swahili spoken by the Bravanese people, who are the predominant inhabitants of... 4 KB (281 words) - 17:17, 9 March 2024 |
Portuguese. Swahili is a lingua franca throughout eastern Africa and is especially prevalent in the African Great Lakes region. Swahili, known as Kiswahili... 56 KB (5,102 words) - 12:22, 16 April 2024 |
Bantu languages (section Lingua franca) number of speakers is Swahili, with 16 million native speakers and 80 million L2 speakers (2015). Most native speakers of Swahili live in Tanzania, where... 50 KB (4,828 words) - 22:47, 17 April 2024 |
spoken after Luganda and English is Swahili. This language is more common in neighbouring Kenya and Tanzania. Swahili is taught in schools as an optional... 9 KB (938 words) - 08:26, 22 February 2024 |
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... 185 KB (20,993 words) - 19:57, 11 April 2024 |
Arabic dialect.[citation needed] About 10 percent speak Swahili,[citation needed] the lingua franca of Southeast Africa; about 5 percent speak a Berber... 78 KB (5,578 words) - 09:57, 28 March 2024 |
Swahilization (category Swahili) the country's Swahili-based lingua franca was starting to emerge as a dominant language. 2010 studies have shown that, in Tanzania, Swahili became predominant... 3 KB (408 words) - 23:34, 4 August 2023 |
eventually evolve into fully developed languages in their own right such as Swahili, distinct from the languages they were originally influenced by. Trade... 16 KB (1,770 words) - 00:18, 19 April 2024 |
na Kiingereza-Kisimbiti-Kiswahili / Simbiti-English-Swahili and English-Simbiti-Swahili Lexicon. Languages of Tanzania Project, LOT Publications... 10 KB (651 words) - 19:32, 27 April 2024 |
Mozambique (category Swahili-speaking countries and territories) Chichewa, and Swahili. Glottolog lists 46 languages spoken in the country, of which one is a signed language (Mozambican Sign Language/Língua de sinais de... 128 KB (11,922 words) - 23:27, 26 April 2024 |
Uganda (e.g., Arua, Koboko). A sister language of Lingala, it is used as a lingua franca by people with different languages and rarely as a first language... 5 KB (462 words) - 23:34, 5 December 2023 |
Southeast Africa (section Swahili coast) Africa. People include the San people. The Swahili language is spoken, both as an official language and lingua franca, by millions of people. Lake Malawi... 12 KB (757 words) - 03:18, 24 February 2024 |
westernization and attrition to linguistics due to the Kenyan adoption of Swahili language as a lingua-franca and the dynamic view that indigenous languages are provincial... 7 KB (346 words) - 17:08, 28 April 2024 |
East African Federation (category Articles containing Swahili (macrolanguage)-language text) behind only China, India, and the United States. Swahili has been proposed as an official lingua franca. Kinshasa would be the most populous city in... 57 KB (5,370 words) - 14:30, 21 April 2024 |
Kenya (category Articles containing Swahili (macrolanguage)-language text) Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa. A member of the African Union with a population of more... 198 KB (19,274 words) - 13:32, 13 April 2024 |
been clearly identified, but Shimaore tends to be the de facto indigenous lingua franca in everyday life, because of the larger Shimaore-speaking population... 25 KB (1,162 words) - 13:20, 14 January 2024 |
Prins, A.H.J. (1961). "Swahili the Swahili-speaking peoples of Zanzibar and the East African Coast (Arabs, Shirazi, and Swahili)". In Forde, Daryll (ed... 15 KB (1,587 words) - 12:53, 26 April 2024 |
sounds, in his Ɛpistola del Trissino de le lettere nuωvamente aggiunte ne la lingua italiana ("Trissino's epistle about the letters recently added in the Italian... 27 KB (2,060 words) - 07:52, 17 April 2024 |