Alternate Name:
Kiswahili
Number of Speakers:
Approximately 70 million
Key Dialects:
Standard Swahili
Kingwana
Geographical Center:
East Africa
Where spoken:
| Kiswahili
(or Swahili) is an African language spoken mainly by the people of eastern
and central Africa. That is, people who live in Tanzania, Kenya,
Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, eastern Zaire, northern Zaire, northern Malawi,
northern Mozambique, northern Zambia and Somali Republic. Although
not widely as in the above mentioned countries, Kiswahili is also used
by some people in Congo Brazzaville, southern Sudan, the Comoro
Islands, the northern part of Malagasy Republic, the Persian Gulf states,
and the Central African Republic |
|
Kiswahili
is the national language in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda |
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