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International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 2 No. 17; September 2012 95 Kiswahili Dialects endangered : The case of Kiamu and Kimvita Dr. Peter N. Karanja Senior Lecturer Department of Kiswahili and African Languages Kenyatta University Box 43844 00100 Nairobi, Kenya Abstract Many commentators of Kiswahili language always indicate that Kiswahili has many Dialects . Some say that Kiswahili has over 15 Dialects . However, very few studies have been done to ascertain whether these Dialects are still spoken, especially in the face of the onslaught of standard Kiswahili and other dominant languages in the Kiswahili speaking areas such as English and other local languages.
Kiswahili Dialects Endangered: The Case of Kiamu and Kimvita Dr. Peter N. Karanja ... UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment Assessment Guidelines, this paper investigates the vitality of ... The second factor of language endangerment is the rate of intergenerational language transfer. A language …
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