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AnswerSwahili is a member of the Bantu language family and is spoken in East Africa. It is one of the official languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and is spoken in several other countries, both as a native language and as a lingua franca (a common language used for communication between speakers of different native languages). AnswerIt is an African native language arising in and spoken by almost everyone in Tanzania. It arose on the coast and is a mixture of mainly Bantu with Arabic and other minor languages such as Hindi and Portuguese, and of course, more recently English.

It is also widely used in Kenya and Uganda with many people using it in Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Zambia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe also.

But in Kenya the younger generation have almost changed the whole language in what is now known as Sheng.

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Swahili.


What is the Swahili word for energy?

Nishati


What was the sigificance of the bantu?

Swahili, a Bantu language, is one of the languages of the African Union. The Bantu peoples displaced the Khoisan peoples in much of southern Africa.


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AnswerOther Bantu languages include* in Central and Eastern Africa o Swahili o Lingala o Luganda o Gĩkũyũ o Bukusu o Lusoga o Kikongo o Chichewa o Chiyao o Kihaya o Kichagga o Kinyarwanda o Kirundi * in Southern Africa o Shona o Ndebele (Sindebele) o Tswana (Setswana) o Sesotho o Zulu (isiZulu) o Xhosa o Sepedi o Swazi * in West Africa o Ngumba (Cameroon) o Kako (Cameroon) o Basaa (Cameroon)Some are usually known in English without the class prefix (Swahili instead of Kiswahili, etc.), and some others vary (Setswana or Tswana, Sindebele or Ndebele, etc.). The bare form typically does not occur in the language: in the country of Botswana the people are the Batswana, one person is a Motswana, and the language is Setswana.Today most linguists see the center of the Bantu expansion, that started about 2000 years before present in eastern Nigeria and Cameroon.[edit](Narrow) Bantu languages* Bemba * Songa * Northwest o Zone A o Zone B o Zone C * Central o Zone D (Lengola, Enya, Mbole, Mituku, Bembe, Buyu, Nyanga, Bhele (Piri), Bila, Bodo, Bera (Bira), Budu, Homa, Kaiku, Komo, Kango, Ndaka, Nyali, Amba, Vanuma, Mbo, Kare, Bali, Beeke, Hamba, Holoholo, Kanu, Kwami, Shabunda-Lega, Mwenga-Lega, Lika, Songoora (Dialects: Gengele, North Binja, South Binja), Zimba) o Zone E (Gweno, Kahe, Chaga (Chaga languages: Machame Mochi, Rombo, Vunjo), Rusa, Malakote, Chonyi, Digo, Duruma, Giryama (Nyika), Segeju, Pokomo (Upper and Lower), Taita, Sagalia, Logoli, Kabwa, Gusii, Ikizu, Kuria, Ngurimi, Ikoma (Nata), Temi (Sonjo), Suba, Sizaki, Ware, Zanaki, Dhaiso, Embu, Gikuyu, Chuka, Meru, Tharaka, Mwimbi, Muthambi) o Zone F (Bende, Fipa, Mambwe, Lungu, Pimbwe, Rungwa, Tongwe, Konongo, Kimbu, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Sumbwa, Bungu, Langi, Mbugwe, Nilamba, Nyaturu (Rimi), Mbugu) o Zone G o Zone H o Zone J o Zone K o Zone L (Bwile, Kaonde, Nkoya, Mbwera, Bangubangu, Binji, Kete, Luna, Songe, Mbagani, Budya, Hemba, Kanyok, Luba-Kasai, Luba-Katanga, Lwalu, Sanga) o Zone M o Zone N (Manda, Mantengo, Ngoni, Tonga, Mpoto, Nyanja, Tumbuka, Nsenga, Barwe, Kunda, Nyungwe, Phimbi, Sena, Malawi Sena, Podzo, Rue) o Zone P (Yao, Mwera, Makonde, Machinga, Nyasa, Mabiha, Ndonde Hamba, Ndendeule, Matumbi, Mbunga, Ndengereko, Ngindo, Nindi, Rufiji, Chuwabu, Maindo, Koti, Kokola, Lolo, Manyawa, Lomwe, Ngulu, Marenje, Takwane, Makua, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makhuwa-Moniga, Makhuwa-Shirima, Makhuwa-Marrevone, Makhuwa-Saka) o Zone R (Herero, Zemba, Yeyi, Umbundu (South Mbundu), Ndombe, Nyaneka, Nkhumbi, Kwanyama, Ndonga, Kwambi, Ngandyera, Mbalanhu) o Zone S (Dema, Kalanga, Manyika, Ndau, Nambya, Shona, Zezuru, Tawara, Tewe, Chopi, Tonga-Inhambane, Ronga Tsonga, Tonga, Tswa, Venda, Swati (Swazi), Xhosa, Zulu, Zimbabwe Ndebele, North Transvaal Ndebele, South Transvaal Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Birwa, Kgalagadi, Lozi, Tswana, Tswapong) o Unclassified (Boguru, Gbati-ri, Isanzu, Ngbee, Kari, Mayeka, Ngbinda, Nyanga-li, Songo)[edit]Some Bantu words in popular Western culture* Samba * Banjo * Rumba * Conga * Mambo * Zombie * Bongos * Gumbo * Jumbo * La Bamba * Marimba