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It is subdivided into 100 cents (senti in Swahili). ... -/20: nickel-brass 24 mm 5 g Smooth 1966-1984 -/50: copper-nickel 21 mm 4 g 1.6 mm Reeded 1966-1984
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.
It originally aired Thursdays at 8 p.m. EAT, [1] but was later moved to Sundays at 8 p.m. As of November 2014, in its fifth season, it was the network's most viewed show and one of the most watched in East Africa. [9] It is also broadcast in East Africa in StarTimes syndicate channel StarTimes Swahili. [10] [11]
Ajami (Arabic: عجمي , ʿajamī) or Ajamiyya (Arabic: عجمية , ʿajamiyyah), which comes from the Arabic root for 'foreign' or 'stranger', is an Arabic-derived script used for writing African languages, particularly Songhai, Mandé, Hausa and Swahili, although many other languages are also written using the script, including Mooré, Pulaar, Wolof, and Yoruba.
On 20 June 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia gave its main page a makeover. As of December 2024, it has about 89,000 articles, making it the 78th-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.
[1] The project was started in 1994 at the Council on African Studies at Yale University (United States) as an online dictionary of the Swahili language under the name of the "Internet Living Swahili Dictionary" by its founder and present director Martin Benjamin. [2] Since restructuring in 2014 the Swahili vocabulary is no more accessible.
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.)
Tanzanian kids aged 3–6 who watch Akili and Me outperform non-viewers by 24% in counting, 12% in number recognition, 10% in shape recognition, 13% in English language and 8% in fine motor skills when accounting for age, gender, socio-economic status, and baseline knowledge. [1] Eleven million families in Africa watch Ubongo shows every month.