15 Facts About Swahili language

In Guthrie's geographic classification, Swahili is in Bantu zone G, whereas the other Sabaki languages are in zone E70, commonly under the name Nyika.

The Swahili language was formalised in an institutional level when the Germans took over after the Berlin conference.

Thus schools in Swahili language are called Shule in government, trade and the court system.

Swahili has become a second language spoken by tens of millions in four African Great Lakes countries, where it is an official or national language, while being the first language for many people in Tanzania especially in the coastal regions of Tanga, Pwani, Dar es Salaam, Mtwara and Lindi.

The Swahili language was still understood in the southern ports of the Red Sea in the 20th century.

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Furthermore, Swahili Wikipedia is among the few Wikipedias in African language featuring a fairly good amount of contributors and articles.

Swahili language is not widespread in Somalia and has no official status nationally or regionally.

Dialects of Swahili language are spoken by some ethnic minorities on the Bajuni islands in the form of Kibajuni on the southern tip of the country and in the town of Brava in the form of Chimwiini, both contain a significant amount of Somali and Italian loanwords.

Standard Swahili language is generally only spoken by Somali nationals who have resided in Kenya and subsequently returned to Somalia.

Lastly, a closely related Swahili language Mushunguli is spoken by some of the Somali Bantu ethnic minority mostly living in the Jubba Valley.

Swahili language played a major role in spreading both Christianity and Islam in East Africa.

Swahili language was used to strengthen solidarity among the people and a sense of togetherness and for that Swahili language remains a key identity of the Tanzanian people.

Several Swahili consonants do not have equivalents in Arabic, and for them, often no special letters were created unlike other languages.

In non-native Swahili language, concord reflects only animacy: human subjects and objects trigger a-, wa- and m-, wa- in verbal concord, while non-human subjects and objects of whatever class trigger i-, zi-.

In Somalia, where the Afroasiatic Somali language predominates, a variant of Swahili referred to as Chimwiini is spoken along the Benadir coast by the Bravanese people.