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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.
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 ...
Sheng is primarily a Swahili and English-based cant, perhaps a mixed language or creole, originating among the urban youth of Nairobi, Kenya, and influenced by many of the languages spoken there. While primarily a language of urban youths, it has spread across social classes and geographically to neighbouring Tanzania and Uganda .
How are you? O kae? (singular) Le kae? (plural, also used for elders) I am fine: Ke gona. I am fine too, thank you: Le nna ke gona, ke a leboga. Thank you: Ke a leboga (I thank you) / Re a leboga (we thank you) Good luck: Mahlatse Have a safe journey: O be le leeto le le bolokegilego Good bye!
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.
Ngoni is a Bantu language of Zambia, Tanzania, and Mozambique.There is a 'hard break' across the Tanzanian–Mozambican border, with marginal mutual intelligibility. It is one of several languages of the Ngoni people, who descend from the Nguni people of southern Africa, and the language is a member of the Nguni subgroup, with the variety spoken in Malawi sometimes referred to as a dialect of ...
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.