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Swahili has become a second language spoken by tens of millions of people in the five African Great Lakes countries (Kenya, DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania), where it is an official or national language. It is also the first language for many people in Tanzania, especially in the coastal regions of Tanga, Pwani, Dar es Salaam, Mtwara and Lindi.
This category includes countries and territories where Swahili language or a Swahili dialect is used either as a vernacular or as a vehicular language. Pages in category "Swahili-speaking countries and territories"
Tanzania: Swahili is the national language and English and many other indigenous languages. [15] Swahili and English are de facto official languages and Arabic is spoken in Zanzibar. Uganda: English (official), Swahili (second official), [16] Arabic, Luganda, other Bantu and. Nilo-Saharan languages.
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 ...
Many African countries have national sign languages, such as Algerian Sign Language, ... Swahili (spoken in the African Great Lakes region), Fula ...
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.
The two official languages of Kenya, Swahili and English, are widely spoken as lingua francas; however, including second-language speakers, Swahili is more widely spoken than English. [1] Swahili is a Bantu language native to East Africa and English is inherited from British colonial rule .
Arabic in countries with more than 50% Arabic-speakers is considered a majority language, otherwise it is a minority language. ... Swahili: 1696–1856: Africa 12