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(1) (adapted from www.pbs.org)
(2) (adapted from Ohio State's Dept
of African Studies webpage)
(3) (adapted from Hassan
Ali's Web pages)
NB All texts are unaltered. They have only been recomposed for presentation
purposes.
Created by F.Chotard,
English teacher in France |
INSTRUCTIONS
First step : go through the different Web pages and
try to answer these basic questions.
- Where is Swahili spoken today?
- How many people speak it? (2 different figures can be found)
Second step : now try to understand more precisely.
- See the title : what does "Hakuna Matata" refer to? What
does it mean??
- Find the linguistic
roots of Swahili : what is its main origin? What languages have
influenced it?
- What alphabet is used to write in Swahili?
- Why do so many people speak Swahili? (try to find at
least 2 possible explanations)
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