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Swahili
also called KISWAHILI,
or
KISWAHILI, Bantu language spoken either as a mother tongue or
as a fluent second language on the east coast of Africa in an area extending
from Lamu Island, Kenya, in the north to the southern border of Tanzania in
the south. (The Bantu languages form a subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of
the Niger-Congo language family.) (Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.)
Copyright by Yale University Program in African Languages (KAMUSI)
for the database, 1995 - 2001 & Prof. Dr. Muhammad Schmidt, Berlin/Germany,
2004 for Introductory Notes, additions and revision.
Copyright: D.V. Polikanov
(edited by N.T. Petrenko). Department of African Languages.
Moscow, 1997.
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