Swahili language

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

Swahili language is spoken in a wide area from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique. 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.

The below are examples of Swahili language.

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

Its ISO 396 code is sw.

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