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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mugane, John M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2015]
Series:Africa in world history.
Subjects:
Swahili language > History.
Swahili language > Social aspects.
Swahili-speaking peoples > History.
Swahili (Langue) > Histoire.
Swahili (Langue) > Aspect social.
Swahili (Peuple d'Afrique) > Histoire.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > African Languages.
Swahili language
Swahili language > Social aspects
Swahili-speaking peoples
Swahili
Sprachverbreitung
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Swahili, a language alive
  • Swahili, the complex language of a cosmopolitan people
  • A grand smorgasbord of borrowings and adaptation
  • A classical era : the peak of Swahili prosperity, 1000-1500 CE
  • Consolidation of a popular language, 1500-1850s
  • The women of Swahili
  • The Swahili literary tradition
  • Writing Swahili in Arabic characters
  • Colonialism and standardization of Swahili, 1850s to the 1960s and beyond
  • Modern Swahili : moving on
  • Swahili in African American life
  • Swahili is for the living.

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