-
linguistic history.
Modern standard Swahili,
written in Latin, is
based on
Kiunguja, the
dialect spoken in
Zanzibar City.
Swahili literature and poetry, traditionally...
- Mbweni, Mangapwani, Chwaka, and Nungwi.
People of
Unguja mostly speak kiunguja ("the
language of Unguja"),
which is the
dialect of the
Swahili language...
-
Waungwana as the endonym.
Modern Standard Swahili is
derived from the
Kiunguja dialect of Zanzibar. Like many
other world languages,
Swahili has borrowed...
-
Italian and French. The
dialect of
Swahili spoken in
Zanzibar is
called Kiunguja.
Kiunguja,
which has a high
percentage of
Arabic loanwords, has the
status of...
- Emirates. In the UAE,
Barwani translated the Qur'an into
Swahili (Swahili
kiUnguja) Qur'an for
which he is most known.
Barwani graduated from
Makerere University...
- Universities'
Mission to
Central Africa that
started in 1864,
picked the
Kiunguja dialect as a base for
their own writings: it was the
dialect of the Zanzibar...
-
people living in
Tanzania are from
Europe or Asia.
Kiswahili or
Swahili or
Kiunguja (in Zanzibar) (official)
English (official)
Arabic (widely
spoken in Zanzibar)...
- for the
Swahili Ajami script. However, this came to be
challenged by the
Kiunguja dialect of
Zanzibar City. This
dialect was used by
Christian missionaries...
- in
Kiamu (see for
example the
poetry by
Ustadh Mau), Kimvita, Kipemba,
Kiunguja, Kimrima, Kimtang'ata, Ki-Dar es
Salaam and Ki-Nairobi
which are considered...
- p****ive form: -uawa,
although the
regular -uliwa is
occasionally used. The
Kiunguja dialect,
specifically the
variant of it
spoken in
Zanzibar City, which...
