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| Address: Machang Road 117, Hexi district, Tianjin. |
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| Post code:300204 |
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| Office phone number: 086-22-23281224 |
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| Fax: 086-22-23281224 |
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E-mail:ruijufen@tjfsu.edu.cn |
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Our department offers a good platform for who want to study Swahili in China. The students in our department will have a chance to study abroad in Kenya or Tanzania during their four years ?study, which ensures the graduate students have good ability of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translating ability both in English and Swahili. Besides, the business, economy, culture and diplomacy lessons help students found a steady base to meet the new need now days. |
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Swahili, more correctly called Kiswahili, is the most important language of East Africa. It is the official language of both Tanzania and Kenya, and is also spoken in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Zaire. (In Zaire a separate dialect is spoken, known as Kingwana.) Swahili is the mother tongue of perhaps only a million people, but at least 10 million more speak it fluently as a second language, and many millions more at least understand it to some degree.china3view
Swahili is one of the Bantu languages, which form a branch of the Niger-Congo family. Its vocabulary is basically Bantu but with many words borrowed from Arabic. The name Swahili is derived from an Arabic word meaning "coastal," having developed among Arabic speaking settlers of the African coast beginning about the 7th century. During the 19th century it was carried inland by Arab tradesmen, and was later adopted by the Germans as the language of administration in Tanganyika. In modern Tanzania it is the national language, and in 1970 it was proclaimed the official language of Kenya.
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