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2. Standard Swahili language - Wikipedia

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   Standard Swahili language arose during the colonial era as the homogenised version of the dominant dialects of the Swahili language.. Standard Swahili enabled communication in a wide array of situations: it facilitated political cooperation between anti-apartheid fighters from South Africa and their Tanzanian military instructors and continues to give members of the African American community ...

3. Kamusi project - Wikipedia

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   Since 2010 programming and the Swahili-English database have been expanded to incorporate other languages. Kamusi project is open to build interconnected dictionaries for all existing languages. The project was knocked offline for a year beginning in mid-2015 when its server was unable to handle the data load for expanding to multiple languages.

4. Swahili language - Wikipedia

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   Swahili nouns are separable into classes, which are roughly analogous to genders in other languages. In Swahili, prefixes mark groups of similar objects: m- marks single human beings (mtoto 'child'), wa- marks multiple humans (watoto 'children'), u- marks abstract nouns (utoto 'childhood'), and so on. And just as adjectives and pronouns must ...

5. Bao (game) - Wikipedia

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   Bao is a traditional mancala board game played in most of East Africa including Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Comoros, Malawi, as well as some areas of DR Congo and Burundi. [1] [2] It is most popular among the Swahili people of Tanzania and Kenya; the name itself "Bao" is the Swahili word for "board" or "board game".

6. Swahili grammar - Wikipedia

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   Swahili may be described in several ways depending on the aspect being considered. It is an agglutinative language. It constructs whole words by joining together discrete roots and morphemes with specific meanings, and may also modify words by similar processes. Its basic word order is SVO. However, because the verb is inflected to indicate the ...

7. Swahili Ajami - Wikipedia

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   The Swahili Ajami script refers to the alphabet derived from the Arabic script that is used for the writing of the Swahili language. [1]Ajami is a name commonly given to alphabets derived from Arabic script for the use of various African languages, from Swahili to Hausa, Fula, and Wolof.

8. Kenyan Sign Language - Wikipedia

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   Kenyan Sign Language (English: KSL, Swahili: LAK) is a sign language is used by the deaf community in Kenya and Somalia. It is used by over half of Kenya's estimated 600,000 deaf population. There are some dialect differences between Kisumu (western Kenya), Mombasa (eastern Kenya) and Somalia. (See Somali Sign Language.)

9. Swahili culture - Wikipedia

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   Swahili culture is the culture of the Swahili people inhabiting the Swahili coast. This littoral area encompasses Tanzania , Kenya , and Mozambique , as well as the adjacent islands of Zanzibar and Comoros along with some parts of Malawi and the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo .