Swahili language

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Swahili language is a language widely spoken in East Africa. In Swahili language is named is Kiswahili. It is a Bantu language.

Swahili language is spoken in a wide area from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique and the whole of Kenya. There are about five million first-language speakers and fifty million second-language speakers. Swahili has become a language with which people can communicate for East Africa and surrounding areas.

Swahili language began to be spoken in Zanzibar, an island of Tanzania. Swahili languages is an official language in Tanzania and Kenya. It has been influenced by many other languages like Arabic language.

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The below are examples of Swahili language.

  • yes - ndiyo
  • no - hapana
  • okay - sawa

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