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The Swahili language was developed in 1728 as a lingua franca between Arabs and African traders.
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There are approximately 75 million Swahili speakers worldwide. Swahili is widely spoken in East Africa and serves as a lingua franca in the region.
Yes, Swahili is used as a lingua franca in much of Eastern Africa and is an official language of 5 countries.
Swahili is a Bantu language mixed with Arabic, Persian, German, English, French, and Portuguese.
the lingua franca of east Africa is the modern Swahili which is being used as national language in east Africa(Kenya, Tanzania) whereby some foreign languages words aded in but the origin or the mother of this language is kingovi/old Swahili with there 12tribes which speak same but different dialogue
Bantu is not a single language but rather a large group of languages spoken in sub-Saharan Africa. However, some Bantu languages, such as Swahili, have been used as a lingua franca in certain regions due to their widespread use as a trade or administrative language.
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Swahili has been a lingua franca in East and Central Africa for a thousand years and more. A lthough it's a second language to most Tanzanians and Kenyans, it has the status of national language, so it's not really a lingua franca anymore. It's also an official language of the Demcratic Republic of Congo, where it is the first language of almost everyone in the east, from Lubumbashi in the south to Lake Kivu in the north. It was brought to the Congo by Arab and Swahili slave-traders in the 19th Century. In the enormous disruption of peoples and cultures that was caused by the slave trade, Swahili replaced local tribal languages as a first language.
Franca Belli's birth name is Phelan, Franca.
Franca Gandolfi's birth name is Franca Guarnaccia.
Franca was created in 1856.