-
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...
-
Italian and French. The
dialect of
Swahili spoken in
Zanzibar is
called Kiunguja.
Kiunguja,
which has a high
percentage of
Arabic loanwords,
enjoys the status...
- 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...
-
million (2017 est.) Deaths: 32,000 (2017 est.)
Kiswahili or
Swahili or
Kiunguja (in Zanzibar) (official)
English (official)
Arabic (widely
spoken in Zanzibar)...
-
speak the
Swahili language.
Modern Standard Swahili is
derived from the
Kiunguja dialect of Zanzibar. Like many
other world languages,
Swahili has borrowed...
- 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...
- 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...
-
Comorian and
Swahili to
Comorians living in French-colonised Comoros.
Kiunguja, a
dialect of Swahili, is also
spoken in the Comoros,
particularly in Grande...
- with
creating a
standardized form of the
language from 17 dialects. The
Kiunguja dialect spoken in
Zanzibar was
chosen as the base. The
committee was also...
