Minutes Writing In Swahili In Nassau
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Some countries where people speak Swahili include the following: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Somalia, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Comoros, Oman, Yemen, and Botswana.
There are basically five ways to say hello in Swahili: – Sijambo (seeJAmbo) (I am fine / no worries) Habari? (any news?) – nzuri (nZOOree) (fine) U hali gani? (oo HAlee GAnee) (how are you) – njema (fine)
Swahili is a Bantu language and is part of the Niger-Congo language group. It is a mix of local Bantu languages and Arabic but has also been heavily influenced by English, Persian, Portuguese, German, and French due to the years of trade along the East African coast.
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Since then, Swahili has been written with the Latin alphabet and the Arabic one was abandoned. The language today is spoken mostly in the Great African Lakes region, in countries such as Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, DR Congo and Uganda.
Basic Swahili Phrases for Travelers What is your name?: jina lako nani? My name is: jina langu ni. Where are you from?: unatoka wapi? I'm from: natokea. May I take a picture?: naomba kupiga picha.
The Swahili language was originally written in Arabic script, but people now write modern Swahili using Latin letters. An alphabet was standardized in the 1930s. Swahili has five vowel phonemes and does not use vowel diphthongs. There are 35 consonant phonemes in Swahili.
The core of the Swahili language originates in Bantu languages of the coast of East Africa. Much of Swahili's Bantu vocabulary has cognates in the Unguja, Pemba, and Mijikenda languages and, to a lesser extent, other East African Bantu languages.
