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The Kiswahili Language
Swahili (called Kiswahili in the language itself) is the
first language of the Swahili people (Waswahili), who inhabit
several large stretches of the Indian Ocean coastline from
southern Somalia to northern Mozambique, including the Comoros
Islands. Although only 5-10 million people speak it as their
native language, Swahili is a lingua franca of much of East
Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a national
or official language of four nations, and is the only African
language among the official working languages of the African
Union.
Swahili is spoken natively by various groups traditionally
inhabiting about 1,500 miles of the East African coastline.
About 35% of the Swahili vocabulary derives from the Arabic
language, resulting from the fact that the language evolved
through centuries of contact between Arabic-speaking traders
and many different Bantu-speaking peoples inhabiting Africa's
Indian Ocean coast.
It also has incorporated Persian, German, Indian and English
words into its vocabulary due to contact with these different
groups of people. Swahili has become a second language spoken
by tens of millions in three countries, Tanzania, Kenya, and
Congo (DRC), where it is an official or national language. The
neighboring nation of Uganda made Swahili a required subject in
primary schools in 1992 — although this mandate has not been
well implemented — and declared it an official language in
2005.
Swahili, or other closely related languages, is also used by
relatively small numbers of people in Burundi, Rwanda,
Mozambique, Somalia, and Zambia, and nearly the entire
population of the Comoros. Source: Wikipedia
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