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This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Swahili on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Swahili in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). [6] Estimates of the number of Swahili speakers, including both native and second-language speakers, vary widely.
The numbers are based on the classes reconstructed for Proto-Bantu, and have corresponding classes in the other Bantu languages which can be identified by the same system of numbers. Therefore, classes that are missing in Swahili create a gap in the numbering, as is the case with classes above 18 as well as classes 12 and 13, which are absent ...
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.
This is a list of languages by total number of speakers. It is difficult to define what constitutes a language as opposed to a dialect . For example, Chinese and Arabic are sometimes considered single languages, but each includes several mutually unintelligible varieties , and so they are sometimes considered language families instead.
The Swahili people follow the Sunni denomination of Islam. [26] Large numbers of Swahili undertake the Hajj and Umrah from Tanzania, [27] Kenya, [28] and Mozambique. [29] Traditional Islamic dress such as the jilbab and thob are also popular among the Swahili. The Swahili also are known for their use of divination, which has adopted some ...
From January 2008 to January 2011, if you bought shares in companies when Richard D. DiCerchio joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 4.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a -13.4 percent return from the S&P 500.
In 1960-1990s, the Swahili literature had two philosophical schools: a traditionalist one, whose proponents were inspired by the old poetic forms, and a progressive one, that sought the creation of new free verse poetry. [1] The traditionalists strongly preferred writing in dialects while the progressivists advocated for the Standard Swahili. [1]