The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary is a collaborative work by people all over the world. Together we are working to establish new dictionaries of the Swahili language. Kiswahili is the most widely spoken African language, with 50 million speakers in East Africa and Central Africa. In addition to Tanzania, including Zanzibar, and Kenya, many people speak Swahili as a first or second ...

USEFUL SWAHILI WORDS To be able to pronounce Swahili words correctly, please check out the INTRODUCTION TO KISWAHILI LANGUAGE by AbdulGhany Mohammed and Kassim A. Abdullah or the Swahili Pronunciation Guide by Thomas Hinnebusch and Sarah Mirza. Some pronunciation is provided under each section of this page in Real Audio and MP3 formats. One quick note about Swahili verbs is that they always ...

KANGA WRITINGS Copyright Hassan Ali, Ottawa, Canada, 1995. NOTE: Some of the words appearing in kanga are not necessarily proverbs, but rather meant to send out an encoded message or just a plain message. For example, Harufu yako yaburudisha moyo wangu - your pleasant scent soothes my heart , or Bure mnanichukia, bahati nimejaliwa - You hate me in vain, I'm blessed with luck . KANGA WRITING ...

Swahili / Kiswahili Swahili is one of the most important linguae francae in Africa with over 75 million speakers, mostly in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and the eastern and south-eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Kongo. Swahili is counted among the north-eastern Bantu languages in the Niger-Congo language family. Language Courses Wilhelm J.G. M hlig / Bernd Heine: Swahili Grundkurs ...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SWAHILI LANGUAGE (by Hassan O. Ali; revised by Abdurahman Juma) The Swahili language, is basically of Bantu (African) origin. It has borrowed words from other languages such as Arabic probably as a result of the Swahili people using the Quran written in Arabic for spiritual guidance as Muslims. As regards the formation of the Swahili culture and language, some scholars ...

Kiswahili Resource Page Swahili language is the only language in Africa that can technically be classified as a true Lingua franca. Unlike most other African languages it is a non tribal language (see its history), rather it is more of an intra-national language of the Eastern Central and Southern Africa. The language spreads from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Eastern Zaire, Northern ...

ABOUT LINGSOFT PRODUCTS SERVICES CONTACT US SUPPORT NEWS JOBS SITE MAP December 9, 1999 Orthografix 2 for Swahili Lingsoft is proud to offer the world's first spell-checker and hyphenator for Swahili (Kiswahili) developed by Arvi Hurskainen, Professor of African Languages, University of Helsinki. Professor Hurskainen has over 30 years experience of using Swahili as a working language, including ...