African Languages: Swahili

Swahili / Kiswahili

Swahili is one of the most important linguae francae in Africa with over 75 million speakers, mostly in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and the eastern and south-eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Kongo. Swahili is counted among the north-eastern Bantu languages in the Niger-Congo language family.

Language Courses

Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig / Bernd Heine: Swahili Grundkurs
Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher Volume 3

Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig / Bernd Heine: Swahili Übungsbuch
Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher Volume 4
Additional material: Hör- und Sprechtexte aus dem Swahili Übungsbuch (2 tape cassettes)

Gudrun Miehe / Wihelm J.G. Möhlig (Hrsg.): Swahili-Handbuch
Afrikawissenschaftliche Lehrbücher Volume 7

Grammatical and Pragmatical Analyses, Sociolinguistics

Assibi A. Amidu: Reflexives and Reflexivization in Kiswahili Grammar
East African Languages and Dialects Volume 14

Assibi A. Amidu: Argument and Predicate Relations in Kiswahili. A New Analysis of Transitiveness in Bantu
Grammatical Analyses of African Languages Volume 18

Assibi A. Amidu: Classes in Kiswahili. A Study of their Forms and Implications
East African Languages and Dialects Volume 8

Jan Blommaert: State Ideology and Language in Tanzania
East African Languages and Dialects Volume 10

Reinhard Klein-Arendt: Gesprächsstrategien im Swahili. Linguistisch - pragmatische Analysen von Dialogtexten einer Stegreiftheatergruppe
East African Languages and Dialects Volume 2

Fidèle Mpiranya: Swahili Phonology Reconsidered in a Diachronical Perspective. The Impact of Stress on Morphonemics and Syllable Structure
East African Languages and Dialects Volume 4

Thilo C. Schadeberg: A Sketch of Swahili Morphology
Grammatical Analyses of African Languages Volume 2