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Authors: Nicholas Awde
ISBN-13: 9780781809054, ISBN-10: 0781809053
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hippocrene Books, Inc.
Date Published: April 2002
Edition: Bilingual

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Author Biography: Nicholas Awde

Book Synopsis

This essential language guide presents the traveler with the vocabulary and phrases necessary to communicate in Swahili, the most widely spoken African language. The two-way dictionary has over 5,000 total entries; the phrasebook contains terms and phrases for travel and daily life situations, as well as invaluable cultural information. Swahili or Kiswahili was spoken originally along the eastern coast of Africa. Now the official language of Tanzania and a major language in Kenya. Uganda, and eastern Congo (Zaire), Swahili is the lingua franca of Eastern Africa.

Table of Contents

Introduction5
A Very Basic Grammar10
Pronunciation Guide19
Swahili-English Dictionary23
English-Swahili Dictionary55
Swahili Phrasebook95
Maps194

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