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Swahili linguists is dedicated to provide swahili language services as listed above and increase the awareness of this unique and growing language.
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Swahili Speaking Region
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Swahili linguists Association staff will provide you great services with their noble experience in multilingual practice.
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?
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In Kenya, this is less the case, and English still enjoys virtual equal status with Swahili. In Uganda the popularity of Swahili as a national or official language often reflects
the attitude of the political faction that is currently in control. For a period shortly after the Tanzanian Ugandan conflict the status of Swahili
received a boost because people observed how effectively it functioned as the language of their liberators, the Tanzanians. In eastern Zaire it remains
an important lingua franca and is spoken by growing numbers of native speakers in parts of the region.
Swahili Linguistic Sketch
Swahili is an agglutinative language, that is, grammatical information is conveyed by attaching prefixes and suffixes to roots and stems. As in other
Bantu languages, nouns are divided into sets or classes, referred to as grammatical genders. Each gender has two distinct prefixes, one marking singular
nouns, the other plural nouns. There are numerous classes far exceeding the masculine, feminine and neuter classifications of familiar European languages
and each class is roughly associated with certain semantic characteristics; for instance, there are classes for human beings, animals, plants, artifacts,
long objects, abstract concepts, and so on.
The phonology of Swahili is characterized by a simple vowel inventory and consonant inventory. Somewhat unusual sounds are the implosives, sounds that
are made by drawing air into the lungs rather than expressing it. Unlike other Bantu languages, it is not a tone language; stress is typically on the
penultimate syllable.
The typical Bantu structure of the language plus its extensive stock of vocabulary that is Bantu in origin, demonstrate that although Swahili has borrowed
a large number of Arabic words, it remains a distinctly African language. In the modern era, it has borrowed extensively from English. There is also a loan
set from Portuguese which dates from the Portuguese period in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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