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The Swahilization of the country may have isolated it from the international marketplace during the 1970s and 1980s. [1] By the early 2000s, Kiswahili started to be used intra-group in Kenya, a sign that the country's Swahili-based lingua franca was starting to emerge as a dominant language.
Swahili Arabic script on a one-pysar coin from Zanzibar, c. 1299 AH (1882 CE) Swahili Arabic script on a carved wooden doorway at Lamu in Kenya Swahili Arabic script on wooden door in Fort Jesus, Mombasa, Kenya. The Swahili language is a member of the Bantu subgroup of the Niger-Congo family.
Chichifundi, a dialect of the southern Kenya coast. Chwaka; Kivumba, a dialect of the southern Kenya coast. Nosse Be (Madagascar) Pemba Swahili Kipemba is a local dialect of the Pemba Island. Kitumbatu and Kimakunduchi are the countryside dialects of the island of Zanzibar. Kimakunduchi is a recent renaming of "Kihadimu"; the old name means ...
Kenya's various ethnic groups typically speak their mother tongues within their own communities. The two official languages, English and Swahili, are used in varying degrees of fluency for communication with other populations. Today, English is the official language in Kenya, while Swahili enjoys the status of the national language.
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The majority of Muslims in Kenya are Sunni Muslims forming 81% of the Muslim Population, 7% identify as Shia. [4] There are also sizeable populations of Ibadism and Quranist adherents. [ 5 ] In large part, Shias are Ismailis descended from or influenced by oceanic traders from the Middle East and India.
The Kapenguria Six – Bildad Kaggia, Kung'u Karumba, Jomo Kenyatta, Fred Kubai, Paul Ngei, and Achieng' Oneko – were six leading Kenyan nationalists who were arrested in 1952, tried at Kapenguria in 1952–53, and imprisoned thereafter in Northern Kenya.
The EAC collapsed in 1977 and was officially dissolved in 1984. Kenya's relations with Somalia deteriorated over the problem of Somalis in the North Eastern Province who tried to secede and were supported by Somalia. In 1968, however, Kenya and Somalia agreed to restore normal relations, and the Somali rebellion effectively ended. [52]