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...

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...

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

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...

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

population. Swahili and English, the latter of which was inherited from colonial rule (see Tanganyika Territory), are widely spoken as lingua francas. They...

(ChiMwini, Mwiini, Mwini) or Chimbalazi, is a Bantu language related to Swahili spoken by the Bravanese people, who are the predominant inhabitants of...

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...

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...

Portuguese. Swahili is a lingua franca throughout eastern Africa and is especially prevalent in the African Great Lakes region. Swahili, known as Kiswahili...

Portuguese (endonym: português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language of the Indo-European language family originating from the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

eventually evolve into fully developed languages in their own right such as Swahili, distinct from the languages they were originally influenced by. Trade...

Punjabi Romanian Russian Santali Serbian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tetum Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Yorùbá Lingua has content-sharing/partnerships (formal and...

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...

Arabic dialect.[citation needed] About 10 percent speak Swahili,[citation needed] the lingua franca of Southeast Africa; about 5 percent speak a Berber...

English-based, spoken in Trinidad Sranan Tongo, English-based creole language and (lingua franca) spoken in Suriname Saint Kitts Creole, English Creole or dialect...

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...

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...

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...

ivory, slaves, and spices. The Swahili language, a Bantu language with significant Arabic influence, emerged as a lingua franca of trade in the region...

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...

African territories and then spread to other Portuguese domains. Pilipili in Swahili means "pepper". Other romanizations include pili pili in the Democratic...

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...

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...

sobre a cooficialização da língua do "talian", à língua portuguesa, no município de Nova Roma do Sul" O Talian agora é a língua co-oficial de Nova Roma do...