In June 1928, an inter-territorial conference attended by representatives of Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar took place in Mombasa.
The development of language technology also strengthens the position of Swahili as a modern medium of communication. ====Tanzania==== The widespread use of Swahili as a national language in Tanzania came after Tanganyika gained independence in 1961 and the government decided that it would be used as a language to unify the new nation.
This saw the use of Swahili in all levels of government, trade, art as well as schools in which primary school children are taught in Swahili, before switching to English (medium of instruction) of in Secondary schools (although Swahili is still taught as an independent subject) After Tanganyika and Zanzibar unification in 1964, Taasisi ya Uchunguzi wa Kiswahili (TUKI, Institute of Swahili Research) was created from the Interterritorial Language Committee.
In 1970 TUKI was merged with the University of Dar es salaam, while Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa (BAKITA) was formed.
Blommaert, Jan: Situating language rights: English and Swahili in Tanzania revisited (sociolinguistic developments in Tanzanian Swahili) – Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies, paper 23, Ghent University 2003 Chiraghdin, Shihabuddin and Mathias E.
In 2018, South Africa legalized the teaching of Swahili in South African schools as an optional subject to begin in 2020.
In 2018, South Africa legalized the teaching of Swahili in South African schools as an optional subject to begin in 2020.
Botswana followed in 2020, and Namibia plans to introduce the language as well. == Classification == Swahili is a Bantu language of the Sabaki branch.
All text is taken from Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License .
Page generated on 2021-08-05