Form with which the stockholders of a corporation record the contents of their annual meeting.
Form with which the stockholders of a corporation record the contents of their annual meeting.
Kiswahili is the most important and widely studied indigenous language of Africa, the National and official language of Kenya and Tanzania. It is spoken as a native language on the East coast of Africa and the islands adjacent to the coast from Southern Somalia in the north down through the Kenyan and Tanzanian coasts.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Whatever your language background is, Swahili is fairly easy to learn. This is because the alphabet is largely similar to the English alphabet, making word recognition simpler.
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.
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.
Although originally written with the Arabic script, Swahili is now written in a Latin alphabet introduced by Christian missionaries and colonial administrators.