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NENO: BIBLIA TAKATIFU : This is the Contemporary English Version Bible translation in Kiswahili Language - This is Bible in Kiswahili (Swahili). Maandiko Matakatifu ya Mungu Yaitwayo BIBLIA, Yaani, Agano la Kale na Agano Jipya.
Swahili, also known as Kiswahili(translation: language of the Swahili people), is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people. It is a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of eastern and south-eastern Africa, including Tanzania , Kenya , Uganda , Rwanda , Burundi , Mozambique , and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). [7] Comorian , spoken in the Comoros Islands is sometimes considered to be a dialect of Swahili, though other authorities consider it a distinct language. [8]
The exact number of Swahili speakers, be it native or second-language speakers, is unknown and a matter of debate. Various estimates have been put forward and they vary widely, from 50 million to over 100 million. [2] Swahili serves as a national language of four nations: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and the DRC. Shikomor , the official language in Comoros and also spoken in Mayotte ( Shimaore ), is related to Swahili. [9] Swahili is also one of the working languages of the African Union and officially recognised as a lingua franca of the East African Community. [10]
A significant fraction of Swahili vocabulary derives from Arabic [11] through contact with Persian -speaking Muslim inhabitants. For example, the Swahili word for "book" is kitabu , traceable back to the Arabic word كتاب kitābu (from the root k.t.b. "write"). However, the Swahili plural form of this word ("books") is vitabu , following Bantu grammar in which ki- is reanalysed as a nominal class prefix, whose plural is vi- . [12]