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List of basic phrases and words. [6]Good morning – wabukire Good afternoon – wasibire Good night - ukeyesaye buholho Thank you (very much) – wasingya (kutsibu) How are you? – ghune wuthi?
Swahili is also one of the working languages of the African Union and officially recognised as a lingua franca of the East African Community. [6] At least as early as the late 18th century, Swahili was used along trading and slave routes that extended west across Lake Tanganyika and into the present-day Democratic Republic of Congo.
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 ...
Nkore (also called Nkole, Nyankore, Nyankole, Orunyankore, Orunyankole, Runyankore and Runyankole) is a Bantu language spoken by the Nkore ("Banyankore") of south-western Uganda in the former province of Ankole, as well as in Tanzania, the DR Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.
Jan Knappert (January 14, 1927, Heemstede – May 30, 2005, Hilversum, Netherlands) was a well-known expert on the Swahili language. He was also an Esperantist, and he wrote an Esperanto-Swahili dictionary. [1]
A warning has been issued to travelers over the spread of three diseases, including the Marburg virus. It’s a close cousin of Ebola that’s been dubbed the “bleeding eye” virus due to one ...
“Thank You Very Much” makes a similar case for Andy Kaufman, but by stitching every moment of his career into a single vision (he was a showbiz innocent turned entertainment-state guerrilla ...
Tanzania Nakupenda Kwa Moyo Wote" is a Swahili-language patriotic song about Tanzania in East Africa. [1] The song's history and authorship is uncertain, but stretches back to the colonial days, when then it was sung as thus " Tanganyika, Tanganyika nakupenda kwa moyo wote ."