Tanzania
Africa
United Republic of Tanzania
Dar es Salaam
Kiswahili or Swahili (official),
Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar),
English (official,
primary language of commerce,
administration,
and higher education),
Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar),
many local languages
note: Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin,
its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources,
including Arabic and English,
and it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages
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