Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, a Swahili advocate. Keystone/Getty Images Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu ...

The people of the east coast of Africa first came into touch with Arabian traders many centuries ago, which led to the development of the Swahilu language. Swahili was created as a linguistic franca ...

BYU offers many interesting classes, including everything from Campfire Leadership to Pre-legal Latin. Introduction to Swahili, however, proves to be one of the most unusual. 'When I tell people I''m ...

The legacy of the medieval Swahili civilization is a source of extraordinary pride in East Africa, as reflected in its language being the official tongue of Kenya, Tanzania and even inland countries ...

Analyses of ancient DNA from 80 individuals buried in medieval Swahili stone towns along the East African coast revealed that these individuals had both African and Asian ancestry. The findings ...

South African schools will teach Swahili alongside other non-African languages such as Mandarin, French and German. Proponents hope it may one day become a lingua franca for the African continent. One ...

There's nothing like going to Mass celebrated in your own language. But for many new arrivals to the United States, English is not their first language. When Pope Francis launched a consultation ...

With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely spoken languages and, as Priya Sippy writes, there is a renewed push for it to ...