http://www.onlineswahili.com/are-there-any-people-from-kenya-or-speak-swahili.htm Learn how to speak Swahili Wed, 19 May 2010 16:24:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.onlineswahili.com/are-there-any-people-from-kenya-or-speak-swahili.htm/comment-page-1#comment-118 jamisonshuck Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:52:11 +0000 http://www.onlineswahili.com/are-there-any-people-from-kenya-or-speak-swahili.htm#comment-118 It has to do with migration patterns. Swahili is a mix of several languages, English, Arabic, Portuguese etc... on the coast there has been more Arabic and Portuguese influence over the years since it is an easy place to port, you can see that influence in coastal Swahili dialects, however, the more inland you go, the less contact they have had with Arabs and Portuguese so the language is influenced by different groups of people from the inland. So that is why coastal Swahili and interior swahili sound different. btw according to Tanzanians, nobody in Kenya knows how to speak proper Swahili. It has to do with migration patterns. Swahili is a mix of several languages, English, Arabic, Portuguese etc… on the coast there has been more Arabic and Portuguese influence over the years since it is an easy place to port, you can see that influence in coastal Swahili dialects, however, the more inland you go, the less contact they have had with Arabs and Portuguese so the language is influenced by different groups of people from the inland. So that is why coastal Swahili and interior swahili sound different. btw according to Tanzanians, nobody in Kenya knows how to speak proper Swahili.

]]> http://www.onlineswahili.com/are-there-any-people-from-kenya-or-speak-swahili.htm/comment-page-1#comment-119 Layla Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:52:11 +0000 http://www.onlineswahili.com/are-there-any-people-from-kenya-or-speak-swahili.htm#comment-119 personally it hink because its on a coast, the people have a very different way of speaking swahili, i mean because its in africa, it will have an african sound to it, and the people ont he coast meet alot of people from other countries and automatically pick up words, and pronounciation from them personally it hink because its on a coast, the people have a very different way of speaking swahili, i mean because its in africa, it will have an african sound to it, and the people ont he coast meet alot of people from other countries and automatically pick up words, and pronounciation from them

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