Kiswahili Notes For Form One PDF - All Topics
Notes Za Kiswahili Form 1 - Mada Zote
Kiswahili language, also called Swahili Language is a Bantu language spoken either as a mother tongue or as a fluent second language on the east coast of Eas Africa in an area extending from Lamu Island, Kenya, in the north to the southern border of Tanzania in the south.
The Bantu languages form a subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
People who speak Swahili as their sole mother tongue are usually referred to as Waswahili, but this name refers to their language only and does not denote any particular ethnic or tribal unit.
Kiswahili is widely used as a lingua franca in:
(1) Tanzania, where it is the language of administration and primary education
(2) Kenya, where it is, after English, the main language for these purposes
(3) Congo (Kinshasa), where a form of Swahili is one of the four languages of administration, the main language for this purpose being French; and
(4) Uganda, where the main language is again English.
Kiswahili/Swahili is “among the 10 most widely spoken languages in the world, with more than 200 million speakers.
Kiswahili Notes For Form One PDF - All Topics