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Swahili Proverbs
Chaka la simba halikaki kwa nguruwe
In a lion's forest, lie no pigs
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Our team is build with Swahili native speakers who come from different background of specialty.
Besides swahili, we also offer services in other popular spoken languages in Africa: French, Afrikaans, Zulu, and many more.... Tell us what you want and we will deliver.
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Swahili Language & Culture
Who are the Swahili speakers?
Swahili History and Its Origin
Swahili is a people, a culture, a civilization and a Language. Swahili Language is spoken by an estimated 100 million people in
Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. Swahili Language is one of the most widely known and understood language in Africa. Many speakers
of Swahili, especially those further into the interior of the continent (up country) speak two or more other languages, and use Swahili
as a lingua franca. A growing number of first language speakers, however, live in the urban areas of East Africa, where inter-ethnic
communities prevail.
Swahili Language also is one of the few African languages that have a pre-colonial written tradition. A thousand years of contact between
Indian Ocean peoples and Swahili resulted in a large number of borrowed words entering the language, mainly from Arabic, but also others
such as Persian and various Indian languages. At different periods Swahili also borrowed vocabulary from Portuguese and English. Such borrowing
is comparable to the proportion of French, Latin, and Greek loans used in English. Although this proportion for Arabic loans may be as high as
50 percent in classical Swahili poetry (traditionally written in Arabic script), it amounts to less than twenty percent of the lexicon of the
spoken language. The classical poetry still plays a major role in Swahili culture; it is recited on special occasions and regularly quoted;
newspapers often devote space to poetry that has been submitted by their readership.
Swahili Role in Society
English Language is still an important language in post independence East Africa; however Swahili Language plays an increasingly vital role in
the daily commercial, political, cultural, and social life of the region at every level of society. This is especially true in Tanzania, where
the language is used throughout the country in government offices, the courts, schools and mass media. It has, in fact, become a more important
language than English and, in some cases, is replacing English as the language of choice among the educated. Click here to continue..
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