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The story of Swahili /

Swahili, or more properly Kiswahili, was once an obscure littoral dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than one hundred million people use Swahili, making it one of the few truly international languages: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to the world. How this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mugane, John M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2015]
Colección:Africa in world history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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