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The spoken word "Jambo" was once used as a greeting among traders of the Swahili coast of southeast Africa. [4] While less formal, it is in widespread use in East Africa and beyond. [ 5 ] While similar in use to the English word "hello," it really meant to come and settle one's affairs in the business sense.
The Dholuo dialect (pronounced [2]) or Nilotic Kavirondo, is a dialect of the Luo group of Nilotic languages, spoken by about 4.2 million Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania, [3] who occupy parts of the eastern shore of Nam Lolwe (Lake Victoria) and areas to the south.
Swahili clock as provided by the Kamusi Project. The Kamusi Project is a cooperative online dictionary which aims to produce dictionaries and other language resources for every language, and to make those resources available free to everyone. Users can register and add content. "Kamusi" is the Swahili word for dictionary.
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 ...
Because the 2nd person plural object prefix -wa-is the same as the object prefix for class 2 (3rd person plural object), a word such as ninawaona may ambiguously mean "I see you all" or "I see them." These two possibilities may be disambiguated by placing the pronoun after the verb: nina wa ona ninyi / wao .
they wa- 3PL -na- DEF.TIME kaa sit wao wa- -na- kaa they 3PL DEF.TIME sit 'They are sitting' yeye they (he/she) na- DEF.TIME kaa sit yeye na- kaa {they (he/she)} DEF.TIME sit 'They are sitting' As opposed to direct objects, indirect objects in standard Swahili are given precedence to be marked. This indirect object must also carry a dative case suffix. In Settla, the dative suffix is omitted ...
On 20 June 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia gave its main page a makeover. As of December 2024, it has about 91,000 articles, making it the 77th-largest Wikipedia. [4] The Swahili Wikipedia is the second most popular Wikipedia in Tanzania and Kenya after the English version with respectively 14% and 4% of the visits, as of January 2021.
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.)