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Swahili has become a second language spoken by tens of millions of people in the five African Great Lakes countries (Kenya, DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania), where it is an official or national language. It is also the first language for many people in Tanzania, especially in the coastal regions of Tanga, Pwani, Dar es Salaam, Mtwara and Lindi.
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.
Pages in category "Swahili language" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
These include Arabic, Swahili, Amharic, Oromo, Igbo, Somali, ... Below is a list of language isolates and otherwise unclassified languages in Africa, ...
This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language , regional language , or minority language .
2 List of languages by the number of countries in which they are the most widely ... Toma, Oniyan, Wamey, the official language is French) Swahili: Kenya (with ...
Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognized language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that ...
The Bantu Swahili language written in the Arabic script on the clothes of a Tanzanian woman (early 1900s). According to Ethnologue, there are a total of 126 languages spoken in Tanzania. Two are institutional, 18 are developing, 58 are vigorous, 40 are endangered, and 8 are dying. There are also three languages that recently became extinct. [2]