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Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). [6] Estimates of the number of Swahili speakers, including both native and second-language speakers, vary widely.
The Swahili people (Swahili: Waswahili, وَسوَحِيلِ) comprise mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab, and Comorian ethnic groups inhabiting the Swahili coast, an area encompassing the East African coast across southern Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, and northern Mozambique, and various archipelagos off the coast, such as Zanzibar, Lamu, and the Comoro Islands.
Swahili people speak Swahili as their native language, which belongs to the Bantu language family. Graham Connah described Swahili culture as at least partially urban, mercantile, and literate. [1] Swahili culture is the product of the history of the coastal part of the African Great Lakes region.
Four other languages, all of them Bantu based, have the status of national language: Kikongo-Kituba, Lingala, Swahili and Tshiluba. Democratic Republic of the Congo is a Francophone country, where, as of 2024, 55.393 million (50.69%) out of 109.276 million people speak French [2] and 74% report using French as a lingua franca. [3]
Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognized language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that ...
Swahili is used among some communities bordering South Sudan and Kenya. [ 2 ] Uganda is a multilingual country with over 70 generally estimated languages spoken. 43 of its living languages [ 3 ] fall into four main families— Bantu , Nilotic , Central Sudanic and Kuliak .
Swahili: Niger–Congo: Bantu: 3 million 83 million 87 million Vietnamese: Austroasiatic: Vietic: 85 million 1 million 86 million Wu Chinese (incl. Shanghainese) Sino-Tibetan: Sinitic: 83 million <1 million 83 million Tagalog [b] Austronesian: Malayo-Polynesian: 29 million 54 million 83 million Western Punjabi (excl. Eastern Punjabi) Indo ...
He grew up speaking English, Hindi, French, and regional languages Telugu and Marathi. He can understand two other regional languages spoken in India, Tamil and Gujarati.