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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 ...
"Kingozi" language is the precursor of Kiswahili. [citation needed] Pokomos are the only tribe in the world that speak "Kingozi" and sometimes are referred to as wangozi because they used to wear skins (Ngozi). All adult speakers of Pokomo are bilingual in Swahili, parts of East Africa's lingua franca.
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.
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 ...
Swahili has 17 dialects. The Interterritorial Language Committee, in 1930 under British colonial rule in East Africa, was tasked with creating a standardized form of the language. The Kiunjuga dialect spoken in Zanzibar was chosen as the base. The committee was also involved in standardizing the spelling as well as coining some new words.
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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.
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.