LINKS - WEB SITES

Only genuine sites, that offer more content than publicity, have been retained in this personal selection of online Kiswahili resources on the web.

SWAHILI LEARNING

ARCHIVES OF POPULAR SWAHILI
Letters to the editor from the section Habari za Kwetu in Mwana Shaba : samples of written Swahili from D.R. Congo, published in the 1950s.

BANTU LANGUAGE IDENTIFIER
Umqageli, a guesser for Bantu languages, by Jacky Maniacky.

KIKO - Kiswahili Kwa Komputa
Graded Swahili dialogues and texts, with notes and exercises, by the African Studies Institute, University of Georgia.

KI-SWAHILI
Learning Swahili Vocabulary. Offers a large choice of foreign languages besides kiswahili.

KISWAHILI GRAMMAR NOTES
© 1984-1989, H. Erickson & M. Gustafsson. Copyright 1995-2000, Yale program in African languages.

KISWAHILI HOME PAGE
Introductory Kiswahili Lessons, by AbdulGhany Mohammed and Kassim A. Abdullah.

KISWAHILI MATERIALS
Audio Swahili, dialogues, plays, pictures of Kenya, by Jane Irungu, Department of African & African-American Studies, University of Kansas.

  KISWAHILI.NET
Very entertaining Swahili games, online exercises and training, by Cosmo Lazaro.

KISWAHILI WEB AT UPENN
Vocabulary, Crosswords, Conversations, Listening exercises, Reading comprehension at intermediate level, by Mw. Alwiya S. Omar, Mw. Ahmed Shariff, University of Pennsylvania.

KWANGU.COM
Verb builder, verb parser, verb derivator, verb tenses, noun agreements, by Jacob Knight.

  MWANASIMBA KISWAHILI
Jason Higbee has anonymously gone to great pains to transform Mwanasimba's kiswahili grammar lessons into a real book that can be read and downloaded from the net. Thanks a lot Jason, and let's all enjoy it !

ONLINE SWAHILI EXERCISES
Numerous gap-fill translation exercises, and vocabulary exercises to test your Swahili, by the University of California.

  SWAHILI BASIC COURSE
Free online Swahili basic course with downloadable text files in .pdf format and mp3 audio tapes, provided by FSI Language Courses.

SWAHILI LANGUAGE
Article on Swahili language and culture, published on Wikipedia.

SWAHILI LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Audio Swahili, Tanzania, kangas exhibition, by Hassan O. Ali.

SWAHILI ONLINE
A general survey on the Swahili language and its origins.

SWAHILI ONLINE COURSES
Audio Swahili, dialogues, exercises, by the Department of Linguistics at UIUC.

SWAHILI WEB SITE
Online exercises, audio and vocabulary matching exercises to learn Swahili, The Pennsylvania State University.

VERBIX CONJUGATOR
Swahili verbs conjugator.

Swahili listening, speaking, reading, and writing resources, by the Faculty of Virginia.

Welcome to Kiswahili at Rutgers University.

SWAHILI LINGUISTICS

  ARCHIVE AMERICAN LIBRARIES
Free online collection of 35 historical Swahili textbooks, some as early as 1828.
A plunge into the history of Swahili study.

WEB RESOURCES FOR AFRICAN LANGUAGES
A Very large and comprehensive collection of Web resources for Swahili and Bantu languages.
This site is a must for all Bantu scholars !

UCLA SWAHILI RESSOURCES
An exhaustive compilation of existing ressources for the study of Swahili, by the UCLA Language Materials Project.

  LEARNSWAHILI.NET
A wealth of Swahili resources available on the net, including video songs (Mbona umeniacha by Mr Nice) and poems, by Sebastian Richter.

NOUN CLASSIFICATION IN SWAHILI
A paper on noun classification in Swahili, by Dr Ellen Contini-Morava, University of Virginia.

LUGHA YA MITAANI IN TANZANIA
A paper on Tanzanian young urban style of speaking, including a 1100 words dictionary, by Rose Marie Beck, Lutz Diegner, Clarissa Dittemer, Thomas Geider, Uta Reuster-Jahn.

THE BANTU IN ANCIENT EGYPT
A thought provoking research on the relationships between ancient Egypt and the Bantu world (that could revolutionize all previous theories on the origins of the Bantu people), by Ferg Somo.

SWAHILI FOR KIDS

DIGITALDIALECTS-SWAHILI
Welcome to the Swahili Activities Page ! Offers a large choice of many other foreign languages.

MASTERANYLANGUAGE-SWAHILI
Large choice of word, sound and picture match games to master Swahili vocabulary.

Swahili Picture Dictionary.

OTHER AFRICAN LANGUAGES

NOTES ON THE CI-MIINI DIALECT OF SWAHILI
A tentative survey of Bravanese, a Swahili dialect spoken in Brava, on the coast of southern Somalia, by W.H. Whitley.

A Bravanese English dictionary and information on the Bravanese language, by Kassim.

WIKIPEDIA
A brief description of the Lingala Language.

LUGANDA LANGUAGE
offered by BHP, the Buganda Home page.

WIKIPEDIA
A comprehensive description of the LUGANDA language.

GANDA ANCESTRY
Online LUGANDA dictionary.

MAASAI LANGUAGE PROJECT
Phonetics, semantics, and a dictionary of the Maasai language, University of Oregon.

ENCYCLOPEDIA of MADAGASCAR AND MALAGASY DICTIONARY
Words, vocabularies, syntax, proverbs and many more, by Jean-Marie de La Beaujardière.

Somali Grammar / Dhismaha Af Soomaaliga, by Hawa Abdillahi Ali.

A Northern Sotho - English / English - Northern Sotho dictionary.

A Zulu - English / English - Zulu dictionary.

AFRIKA, TANZANIA, ZANZIBAR, KENYA, D.R. of CONGO

OFFICIAL TANZANIA ONLINE GATEWAY
Lots of official informations about Tanzania.

ZANZIBAR TRAVEL NETWORK
Touristic gateway to Zanzibar, well documented, many links.

Kiliweb.com, Gateway to Kilimanjaro and Moshi, by Job de Graff.

Dodoma-Guide, Gateway to the Capital City, by Job de Graff.

IT'S DAR - A blog about Dar es Salaam, with lots of pictures, past and recent.

FONDATION MAISHA
Belgian-Congolese non-profit organization for the reintegration of young people in society, by Pieter-Jan Breyne.

NGO that provides care for orphan children, based in Bagamoyo, Tanzania.

A German concern that organizes safaris in Kenya.

Linking you with the Kenyan Market, Products and Services.

An association supporting the work of Father Pedro who has relieved hundreds of Malagasy families from utter poverty by building a whole village comprising houses, schools and a hospital at Akamasoa, on the outskirts of Antananarivo.

MEDIA

World News in Swahili.

National and local news from Tanzania.

Tanzanian daily news in Swahili, provided by "Mwananchi Communications Limited".

BBC SWAHILI

INTER PRESS SERVICE
Written news in Swahili.

Attempting to bridge the gap between the western world and Africa this modern site offers loads of cultural, musical, TV and Video links to the Swahili / African Nation

CULTURE

TANZANIA : Cultural Profiles Project
Citizenship and Immigration, Canada.

TANZANIA : Cultural Insights
Department of Foreign Affairs and international Trade, Canada.

KENYA : Cultural Profiles Project
Citizenship and Immigration, Canada.

KENYA : Cultural Insights
Department of Foreign Affairs and international Trade, Canada.

CONGO (D.R.) : Cultural Profiles Project
Citizenship and Immigration, Canada.

CONGO (D.R.) : Cultural Insights
Department of Foreign Affairs and international Trade, Canada.

BAO GAME
Rules of the bao game, play bao online.

BAO (ZANZIBAR)
Detailed rules of the bao game of Zanzibar, by Ken Tidwell.

BongoToons, Cartoons and Comics in Tanzania.

MUSIC

Watch your favourite Taarab videos on the net.

Popular Tanzanian jazz bands.

MWAMBAO
Taarab music from Zanzibar.

MZIBO.NET
Bongoflava kibao ! Swahili hiphop music from Tanzania.

RELIGION

QUR'ANI TUKUFU
Translation of the Holy Quran in Swahili, by Sheikh Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani.

SWAHILI BIBLE
Translations of the Old Testament and the New Testament in Swahili, by Biblica.

ONLINE SWAHILI DICTIONARIES

THE KAMUSI PROJECT
Swahili online dictionary and discussion forum, Yale program in African languages.
By far the most complete online Swahili dictionary !

SWAHILI - ENGLISH and ENGLISH - SWAHILI
Provided by TshwanexLex.
A very good dictionary, but no link provided to signal missing words or wrong interpretations.

TANZANIAN SWAHILI SLANG
A comprehensive list of old and newly coined slang terms by Planet Bongo, on Darhotwire.

KAMUSI PEPE
A list of new words with new meanings.

SHENG.CO.KE
A very well documented listing of Sheng words, with daily additions.

SHENG (Kenyan Swahili slang) - ENGLISH and ENGLISH - SHENG
Sarah Hillewaert's compilation, provided by TshwanexLex.

SWAHILI - ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Swahili dictionary with etymologies, compiled by Andras Rajki.

HOW TO SAY...
A universal dictionary that includes Swahili.
Platform based on Google translation technology.

  WEBSTER'S ONLINE DICTIONARY

  SWAHILI RHYMING DICTIONARY
By Alcor software

  DIZIONARIO ITALIANO SWAHILI
By Nino Vessella

ONLINE GOOGLE TRANSLATION

This translation program is not absolutely reliable, and can sometimes lead you to gross errors, yet it can assist if you already possess a sound knowledge of Swahili.

translation Swahili > English  GOOGLE

translation English > Swahili  GOOGLE

GOOGLE KISWAHILI
Search the web in Swahili !

OTHER SITES

Many useful resources and free bilingual dictionaries, for all languages.

Languages directory.

All the flags of the world.

WWW.NATIONAL-ANTHEMS.NET
All the national anthems of the world, with MP3 sound files, by Slawek.

THEY SPEAK ABOUT US ON THE WEB !

A review of Mwana Simba by Babel Babble.

A review of Mwana Simba by Languages Online Blogspot.

A short review of Mwana Simba by the UNESCO.

A personal review of Mwana Simba by Sankofani Sunjata.

A Posterous article that describes an Android-based phone application to learn Swahili vocabulary based on Mwanasimba's content.

SITES IN FRENCH

To view a selection of sites on Swahili, East Africa and Bantu languages in French, please click here :

WEB SITES IN FRENCH