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	The Kamusi Project Internet Living Swahili Dictionary
		The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary has been taken offline.
		The project has been ordered to remove all links to the sites that the project has relied on to raise revenue for project maintenance and improvement.
		Therefore, the site must remain offline until all questions about whether the project has authorization to raise funds through passive revenue generation on the site have been resolved.
	www.yale.edu /swahili (297 words)

	Swahili history
		Those that suggest that Swahili is an old language point to this early source for the possible antiquity of the Swahili language.
		Swahili is the national as well as the official language in Tanzania - almost all Tanzanians speak Swahili proficiently and are unified by it.
		The promotion of the Swahili language is not only in its use but also deliberate efforts are made throughout the world to include it in education curriculum for higher institutions of learning.
	www.glcom.com /hassan/swahili_history.html (1029 words)

	Swahili language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swahili is the mother tongue of the Swahili people who inhabit a 1500 km stretch of the East African coast from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique.
		Swahili belongs to the Sabaki subgroup of the Northeastern coast Bantu languages.
		Swahili verbs consist of a root and a number of affixes (mostly prefixes) which can be attached to mean express grammatical persons, tense and many clauses that would require a conjunction in other languages (usually prefixes).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swahili (1723 words)

	Swahili - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see Kiswahili versus Swahili for a discussion of the nomenclature) is an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa.
		The Swahili spoken in Nairobi incorporates significantly more English loanwords than that spoken on the coast, and in Tanzania Swahili is the most widely used language.
		Sheng originated in the Nairobi slums and is not considered proper Swahili, but it is considered fashionable and cosmopolitan among a growing segment of the population.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /swahili.htm (1175 words)

	Swahili alphabet, pronunciation and language
		Swahili is a Bantu language spoken by about 35 million people in Tanzania, Burundi, Congo (Kinshasa) Kenya, Mayotte, Mozambique, Oman, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda, UAE and the USA.
		Swahili is an official language of Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya and is used as a lingua franca throughout East Africa.
		During the the 19th century Swahili was used as the main language of administration by the European colonial powers in East Afrian and under their influence the Latin alphabet was increasingly used to write it.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/swahili.htm (226 words)

	Swahili
		Swahili nouns belong to 15 different classes, roughly based on semantic features, e.g., there are classes for human beings, animals, plants, objects of various shapes, etc. Not all noun classes can be easily defined.
		Swahili was originally written in the Arabic script that was replaced by a Roman-based alphabet in the mid-nineteenth century.
		Swahili is related to Xhosa and Zulu, both of which are considered to be Category II languages in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/september/swahili.html (739 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
		Swahili is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup of Northeastern Coast Bantu languages.
		The dialect of Swahili referred to as Standard Swahili was established in 1930 by the Inter Territorial Language Committee and was based on the coastal dialect of Zanzibar, Kiunguja.
		Swahili has never enjoyed high status among the major Christian oriented Bantu ethnolinguistic groups of southern and western Uganda, but was an important lingua franca in the northern areas of the country and has always been an important language among the military and police.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=17&menu=004 (1773 words)

	First Swahili office suite released in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania - Wikinews
		On Monday, February 28, 2005, Jambo OpenOffice.org, the first Swahili office suite, was released at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
		Swahili is not the only African language into which OpenOffice is being translated.
		Swahili is spoken by approximately 55 million people worldwide, predominantly in East African countries, including Tanzania and Kenya.
	en.wikinews.org /wiki/First_Swahili_office_suite_released_in_Dar_es_Salaam%2C_Tanzania (954 words)

	Swahili
		Swahili is the official language of Kenya and Tanzania.
		For one, the Swahili vowels are short and are not dipthongized as are the comparable English ones.
		Swahili is an inflecting language in which both prefixed and suffixed morphemes play a grammatical role, with the functions of prefixes particularly salient in both nominal and verbal morphology.
	si.unm.edu /linguistics/swahili/swahili (977 words)

	Swahili Woordenboek - Hans Hesselink
		De officiële landstaal in Kenia is Swahili, evenals in alle Oostafrikaanse landen, gesproken door ongeveer 40 miljoen mensen.
		Swahili is eigenlijk de taal van de kustbewoners, die zich tijdens de kolonisatie tot een
		Het spreken van enkele woorden Swahili vergemakkelijkt het contact met de bevolking waardoor het eenvoudiger is meer te weten te komen over het land en de bevolking.
	members.home.nl /hanshesk (284 words)

	Swahili People
		Swahili art forms are limited to architecture, furniture, and personal adornment.
		This is not to suggest that a Swahili culture does not exist, but instead that its boundaries are amorphous, changing whenever necessary to meet the demands of everyday life.
		Swahili fishermen still rely on the ocean to supply their primary source of income.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/people/Swahili.html (424 words)

	Kenya safari guide - Kenyalogy: Population and culture: Swahili
		Swahili exhibits a great difference with the rest of native tongues: it is not actually an ethnic language, neither it is the patrimony of a given tribe.
		Though it was initially transcribed in arab writing, the origin of Swahili lies on the Bantu language, as shown by its grammar and syntax.
		The result of this attempt was the Kiswahili, or standard Swahili, taken from the Kiunguja dialect which was native to the town of Zanzibar (Unguja), which was the nucleus of the Swahili culture and cradle of the dialect considered the purest.
	www.kenyalogy.com /eng/info/pobla3.html (589 words)

	Kenya.de: Kenya Swahili. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		But not everyone in Kenya knows Swahili, in schools to learn Swahili is a must but every tribe has its own language, so especially in rural areas one still can find people who will understand neither Swahili nor English.
		The pronounciation of Swahili is different from that of English, it's somehow similar to the pronounciation of German.
		Swahili is widespread in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and parts of Malawi and Zaire.
	www.kenya.de /pages/language.html (238 words)

	SWAHILI PRONUNCIATION
		For one, the Swahili vowels are short and are not diphthongized as are the comparable English ones.
		For instance, Swahili e is comparable to the vowel in English say without the lengthening or diphthon g; it is also similar to the vowel in set, but not quite as low.
		Swahili r is quite different from the English one; it is similar to the Spanish tapped r as in pero 'but' or claro 'of course':
	research.yale.edu /swahili/serve_pages/pronunciation.php (794 words)

	Swahili on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Descendants of fl Africans and Arab traders (who came to the E African coast about AD 500), the Swahili do not form a cohesive ethnic group but are loosely united by common economic pursuits (especially trade), by cultural traditions, and particularly by the use of the Swahili language.
		The Swahili: the social landscape of a mercantile society.
		SWAHILI LEAVES ITS IMPRINT ON U.S. Stick with the Swahili lessons, William It is one of the most beautiful languages in the world
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Swahili.asp (421 words)

	Swahili Linguists Association
		Swahili linguists is dedicated to provide swahili language services as listed above and increase the awareness of this unique and growing language.
		Swahili Language is one of the most widely known and understood language in Africa.
		Swahili Language also is one of the few African languages that have a pre-colonial written tradition.
	www.swahililinguists.com (449 words)

	SwahiliOnline.com - Home
		The Swahili is the name given to the coastal people who historically could be found as far North as Mogadishu (Somalia) and as far south as the Rovuma River (Mozambique).
		Swahili (also called Kiswahili) is the Bantu language and the most widely spoken non-european language in Africa.
		Swahili is the mother tongue of the Swahili people who inhabit a 1500 km stretch of the East African coast from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique.
	www.swahilionline.com /index.html (227 words)

	Introduction to Swahili
		Swahili is a derivative of the Bantu language and remains loyal to Bantu grammar, however its vocabulary has been influenced by Arabic (through culture and trade) and more recently by English (through technology).
		Swahili has been described as "One of the twelve great languages of the world" and is spoken by millions of people in Central and Eastern Africa.
		Swahili days themselves are numbered from Friday (based on the Mohammedan calendar) with Monday being jumatatu (juma=week and tatu=three).
	www.masai-mara.com /mmsw2.htm (1103 words)

	Swahili Poems
		The Arabist may recognize the obvious connection between Swahili poetry and Arabic poetry, especially in much of its subject matter, but Swahili poetry cannot be considered as an extension of Arabic poetry or even as a modification of it.
		In early Swahili literature, epic poetry is of particular interest, not least because in this medium the poet was able to move freely away from the imitation of Arabian models.
		An important influence in establishing the tradition of Swahili versification was also that of the educated religious leaders, nearly all Saiyids, in whose hands most of the secular and religious education lay.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1986/august/cl6.cfm (1751 words)

	SWAHILI BIBLIOGRAPHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Giles, Linda L. 1987 Possession Cults on the Swahili Coast: A Re-examination of Theories of Marginality.
		Swahili Studies: Essays in Honour of Marcel van Spaandonck, 209-218.
		1982 The Swahili Dialects of Somalia and the Northern Kenya Coast.
	www.csuchico.edu /%7Etwaters/tanzaniastudies/askew.html (6230 words)

	OHCHR: Swahili/Kiswahili () - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Swahili (or Kiswahili) belongs to the Benue-Congo family, Bantu group, but was strongly influenced by Arabic and Persian.
		"Swahili" is an Arabic word which means "of (from) the coast" or "people of the coast".
		Some even assert that the Swahili culture and language actually have their roots from Persians and Arabs, but most recent archaeological discoveries show that the Swahili culture existed well before the arrival of Persians and Arabs to East Africa.
	www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/swa.htm (1835 words)

	Civilizations in Africa: The Swahili Kingdoms
		Swahili is primarily a Bantu language with some Arabic elements; it is written in the Arabic alphabet.
		Like the language, the Swahili culture was a mixture of the two cultures, Bantu and Arabic, and we call the civilizations of the African east coast "Swahili" to reflect the hybrid nature of those civilizations.
		While the Arabs and Persians were significant players in the growth of Swahili civilization, the cities were run by a nobility that was African in origin (with possible admixture of Persian or Arab blood).
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/CIVAFRCA/SWAHILI.HTM (557 words)

	African Languages - Kiswahili (Swahili) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Swahili is an official language of Tanzania, and is a national language in Kenya and Uganda.
		Swahili is also spoken in a number of other countries in the region, including the DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, northern Mozambique and Somalia.
		Applied Language Solutions Swahili translation services are available from Applied Language Solutions from or to English and many other language pairs.
	www.africanlanguages.com /swahili (269 words)

	AFRICA - Explore the Regions - Swahili Coast
		Perched on the edge of the Indian Ocean against a sun-drenched backdrop of fertile lands, the Swahili Coast is among Africa's most distinct regions.
		Swahili, the area's dominant language, reflects this mix, combining African languages with some Omani and Indian words.
		Today, most people who call themselves Swahili are also Moslem and trace their roots back to Arab traders.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/africa/explore/swahili/swahili_overview_lo.html (179 words)

	On Swahili (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		"Tense and Non-Tense in Swahili Grammar: Semantic Asymmetry between Affirmative and Negative." PhD dissertation, Columbia University.
		Contini-Morava, E. "Negation, Probability, and Temporal Boundedness: discourse functions of negative tenses in Swahili narrative." Jadranka Gvozdanovic' and Theo A. Janssen (eds.), The function of tense in texts.
		Discourse Pragmatics and Semantic Categorization: The Case of Negation and Tense-Aspect with Special Reference to Swahili.
	www.scar.utoronto.ca /~binnick/TENSE/Swahili.html (325 words)

	AQS:-Swahili_the native language
		The language is Kiswahili and the word "Swahili" is derived from the Arabic word "Sawahil" which is the plural of "Sahil" which means coast.
		The earliest Swahili manuscripts are in Arabic alphabet and can be found in the British Museum in London.
		Swahili is the most widely spoken African language, with 50 million speakers in East Africa and Central Africa, particularly
	www.africanquest.co.ke /wildlife_africa/africa_safari_tours/swahili.htm (363 words)

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