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The German colonial government decided to use Kiswahili as the language of administration after becoming fearful that use of German would introduce the local population to subversive Marxist texts. The British, who took over after the defeat of Germany in World War 1 continued this policy. [1] Swahili has 17 dialects.
Specifically, Jambo is a Swahili language word that belongs to noun classes 5-6 for "collectives". Jambo primarily means 'affair', [1] in the sense of commercial, professional, public or personal business. [2] [3] Etymologically it is from amba (-amba) meaning to say. It is a cognate with Zulu. Secondary meanings include dealing with a thing ...
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The Swahili language is not ... For additional collections of Swahili prose from the 19th century, see the ... Swahili Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: ...
Contemporary East African countries also hold conflicting opinions on Standard Swahili: some see it as a colonial construct that foreign governments forced upon them, others prefer English as a medium for schooling (even in Tanzania where Swahili is the language of the Parliament, English dominated in secondary and tertiary education), yet many ...
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (National Kiswahili Association, abbreviated as CHAKITA) is a Kenyan institution founded in 1998 responsible for the promotion of the Swahili language in Kenya. [1] The Founding Chair is Prof. Kimani Njogu , a graduate of Yale University's department of Linguistics.
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.
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 ."