Kiswahili: A Fast-spreading Lingua Franca
In his article "Kiswahili: A Fast-spreading Lingua Franca" Prof. Godson S. Maanga shows linguistic peculiarities of the Kiswahili language and how it spread from Tanzania and Kenya to many regions of the world, including Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Malawi and Zambia as well as the islands of Comoros and Madagascar and more recently Ethiopia, South Sudan, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Lesotho. It has also spread to other countries in the world like America, Germany, UK as well as China and Japan.
