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Hello
Thank You
How Are You?
Good Night
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I Love You
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Dialect 1
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African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
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Swahili people or Waswahili
Individual, Macrolanguage
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pan South African Language Board
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu