Swahili

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Swahili is a Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. Swahili is spoken as a first language by about 5 million people, and also serves as a lingua franca across Africa, where it is spoken by over 30 million people as a second language[1].

Swahili arose as a complex hybrid of Bantu language and Arabic, and spread thanks to intense trade, including in slaves, between the Arab peninsula and eastern Africa.

Syntactically, Swahili is largely Verb complex-object[2]. Because Swahili is an agglutinative language, the subject and verb combine through prefixes and suffixes, creating the Verb complex.


[edit] References

  1. http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/september/swahili.html
  2. http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/september/swahili.html#stru
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