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Congo SwahiliKiswahili ya Kongo |
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The Swahili language, or Kiswahili, is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches
of the Mozambique Channel coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique. Closely related languages, sometimes considered
dialects, are spoken in the Comoros Islands and Somalia. Although only five million or so people speak Swahili as their mother
tongue, it is used as a lingua franca in much of East Africa, and the total number of speakers exceeds 140 million. Swahili
serves as a national, or official language, of four nations: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Some Swahili vocabulary is derived from Arabic through more than twelve centuries of contact with Arabic-speaking inhabitants
of the coast of southeastern Africa. It has also incorporated Persian, German, Portuguese, English, and French words into
its vocabulary through contact during the past five centuries. |
Names (more)[ca] suahili del Congo[cs] swahilština (Kongo) [cy] Swahili'r Congo [da] congolesisk swahili [el] Κονγκό Σουαχίλι [en] Congo Swahili [et] Kongo suahiili [fa] سواحلی کنگویی [fi] kingwana [fr] swahili du Congo [he] קונגו סוואהילי [hr] kongoanski swahili [hu] kongói szuahéli [id] Kongo Swahili [it] congo swahili [ja] コンゴ・スワヒリ語 [ko] 콩고 스와힐리어 [lo] ຊາວາຮີລີ-ຄອງໂກ [lv] Kongo svahili [lt] Kongo svahili [mk] конго свахили [nl] Congo Swahili [nb] kongolesisk swahili [pl] kongijski suahili [pt] suaili do Congo [ro] swahili Congo [ru] конголезский суахили [sk] konžská svahilčina [es] swahili del Congo [sv] Kongo-swahili [th] สวาฮีลี-คองโก [tr] Kongo Svahili [uk] конгійське суахілі [vi] Tiếng Swahili Công-gô |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
This page is providing structured data for the language Congo Swahili. |
ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : swcLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/swchttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:swc More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: swcFreebase ISO 639-3 : swc GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |