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Kiswahili (Swahili)
Family/group:
Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo
Number of speakers:
5,000,000 as 1st language
30,000,000
as 2nd
Where
spoken:
Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya, Mayotte, Mozambique, Somalia, S Africa,
Uganda
Rural people are second language
users; they use the local language for most activities, but Swahili with
outsiders. National language of Tanzania.
more:
http://www.yale.edu/swahili/
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiswahili
http://www.glcom.com/cyberswahili/swahili.htm
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