Kiswahili Language and Literature: Home

Tafuta kwa Kiswahili! Search Swahili words and phrases on the Internet to find vocabularies, images, places, individuals, and much more!

A list of some of the books at University of Kansas Libraries.

An informative and authoritative introduction to Swahili language and culture. Includes estimated number of speakers, general information, dialects, orthography, linguistic summary and affiliation, role of Swahili in society, history, and bibliographic references. Also included is a map showing the area of eastern African where Swahili is spoken.

Introductory notes on 1: Why study Swahili?, 2: Who speaks Swahili? -- peoples and history, and 3) Language and culture. Explains the difference in usage of Swahili and Kiswahili.

Ethnologue provides useful information on various languages of the world, including language profiles, dialects, location of speakers and maps, statistics on number of speakers, and bibliography of language resources online and in print.