Pimsleur Swahili

About the Swahili Language

• Swaili, also known as Kiswahili, is a Bantu language spoken by approximately 50 million people, of which approximately 2 million (some estimates are as high as 5 million) are native-speakers living mainly along the East African coast from Somalia to the North Africa coastline of Madagascar.
• This course teaches Standard Swahili as spoken in and around Kenya.
• Swahili is an official language in Kenya and Tanzania and is the considered the linga franca in much of East Africa. It is also spoken in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa), Mayotte, Mozambique, Oman, Rwanda, Somalia, Uganda South Africa, United Arab Emirates, and the USA.
• Written Swahili uses 24 letters from the Roman alphabet, excepting C, Q, ?and X, and including an additional letter “CH.”