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Freelang Swahili-English dictionary

Swahili (or Kiswahili) is the first language of the Swahili people, who inhabit the Indian Ocean coastline, from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique, including the Comoros Islands. Although only 5 to 10 million people speak it as their native language, Swahili is a lingua franca of much of East Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a national or official language of four nations, and is the only African language among the official working languages of the African Union. It is a Bantu language, like Zulu.



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Word list information

List status: © Freelang

Swahili > English: 657 words
English > Swahili: 957 words

Last update: March 21, 2014
First upload: 1997



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