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- 7 July is Kiswahili day
- The United Nations established the day in 2017 to recognise the culture, history and literature of Kiswahili speakers
- It’s the official language of Tanzania and Kenya
There are 2,171 living languages in Africa. Kiswahili is one of them and is a lingua franca throughout East and Central Africa. Swahili developed over hundreds of years of trade between the Middle East and East Africa. Swahili is derived from the Arabic phrase ‘of the coast’.
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