time period when Swahili emerged as a lingua franca in the region. Due to concerted efforts by the government of Tanzania, Swahili is one of three official...
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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...
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The Swahili people (Swahili: WaSwahili, وَسوَحِيلِ) comprise mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab, and Comorian ethnic groups inhabiting the Swahili coast, an area...
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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...
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languages of Kenya, Swahili and English, are widely spoken as lingua francas; however, including second-language speakers, Swahili is more widely spoken...
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population. Swahili and English, the latter of which was inherited from colonial rule (see Tanganyika Territory), are widely spoken as lingua francas. They...
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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...
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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...
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population. Swahili is the most widespread lingua franca in East Africa. In Congo, the local dialect of Swahili is known as Congo Swahili and differs...
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Portuguese. Swahili is a lingua franca throughout eastern Africa and is especially prevalent in the African Great Lakes region. Swahili, known as Kiswahili...
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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...
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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...
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standardise Swahili, but ended up using a relatively homogenised variety by 1844. Swahili was at that point an ethnic language, but its status of the lingua franca...
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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...
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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...
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eventually evolve into fully developed languages in their own right such as Swahili, distinct from the languages they were originally influenced by. Trade...
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Punjabi Romanian Russian Santali Serbian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tetum Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Yorùbá Lingua has content-sharing/partnerships (formal and...
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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...
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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...
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Arabic dialect.[citation needed] About 10 percent speak Swahili,[citation needed] the lingua franca of Southeast Africa; about 5 percent speak a Berber...
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Kenya (category Articles containing Swahili (macrolanguage)-language text)
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa. With a population of more than 47.6 million in the 2019...
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English-based, spoken in Trinidad Sranan Tongo, English-based creole language and (lingua franca) spoken in Suriname Saint Kitts Creole, English Creole or dialect...
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Kenya said on 2 August 2011 that Swahili will be introduced in South Sudan with the goal of supplanting Arabic as a lingua franca, in keeping with the country's...
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southern Cameroon. Swahili, a Bantu language with many Arabic, Persian and other Middle Eastern and South Asian loan words, developed as a lingua franca for trade...
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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...
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ivory, slaves, and spices. The Swahili language, a Bantu language with significant Arabic influence, emerged as a lingua franca of trade in the region...
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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...
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KiKAR (category Articles containing Swahili (macrolanguage)-language text)
Although there were, by design, no native Swahili speakers among the KAR, Swahili still functioned as the lingua franca, and a simplified version of it served...
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African territories and then spread to other Portuguese domains. Pilipili in Swahili means "pepper". Other romanizations include pili pili in the Democratic...
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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...
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