where is swahili in world???? Is it capital or city or small town or ect???

Answer 1

Swahili is a LANGUAGE found in Africa. I've never heard of a town or city named that.

Answer 2

The Swahili are a people and culture found on the coast of East Africa, mainly the coastal regions and the islands of Kenya and Tanzania, and north Mozambique. There are between 300,000 and 750,000 Swahili people. The name Swahili is derived from the Arabic word Sawahil, meaning "coastal dwellers", and they speak the Swahili language. They also speak the official languages of their respective countries: English in Tanzania and Kenya, Portuguese in Mozambique and Somali in Somalia, and French in Comoros. A small fraction of those who use Swahili are first language speakers and even fewer are ethnic Swahilis.

There are three definitions of who are considered Swahili people. The first are the original inhabitants of the region in question, likely Bantu in origin and speaking a proto-Swahili dialect. The second definition is limited to those that came from the Middle East and Persia after the advent of Islam, as early as the 7th-8th c. CE, and mixed with the local people there, providing considerable cultural infusion and numerous loan words from Arabic and Persian. The third comprises all of the above groups, in addition to the numerous peoples in the interior of Africa and other Asian immigrants that adopted the Swahili language.

This last definition is the most inclusive, represents the vast majority of those identifying themselves as Swahili, and possibly the most accurate given the levels of heterogeneity found among these people. The basis for inclusion here is almost exclusively linguistic, or those speaking the Swahili language. The linguistic definition is also the most accurate historically in some senses in that self-identification in the region was linguistic until the arrival of the Europeans, who imported concepts of ethnic and racial distinctions.

Answer 3

Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see below for derivation) is a Bantu language. It is the most widely spoken language of sub-Saharan Africa. More than 50 million people speak Swahili,[1] but only 5-10 million of these are native speakers.

Swahili is the mother tongue of the Swahili people (or Waswahili) who inhabit several large stretches of the Indian Ocean coastlines from southern Somalia as far south as Mozambique's border region with Tanzania.[2] Swahili has become a lingua franca in much of East Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and is now the only African language among the official working languages of the African Union. Kiswahili is also taught in the major universities in the world, and several international media outlets, such as the BBC, Voice of America and Xinhua have Kiswahili programs.

Answer 4

As regards the formation of the Swahili culture and language, some scholars attribute these phenomena to the intercourse of African and Asiatic people on the coast of East Africa. The word "Swahili" was used by early Arab visitors to the coast and it means "the coast". Ultimately it came to be applied to the people and the language.

Answer 5

1) Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands 2) Don't have a clue 3) Sandon and Carnarvon, Manawatu 4) Skokie, Illinois 5) Durbuy, Belgium

Answer 6

It’s the national language of Tanzania and Kenya, widely used in Uganda, Congo, and neighboring countries. a member of a people who live mainly along the eastern coasts of Central and Southern Africa, and on the islands lying off these regions speak this language.

Answer 7

It is a country in Africa, and a language. OOps, wrong, it is a people of Africa from what I have just read. Very enlightening question.