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If you want them to be able to learn #English well,unmute their tongues first by letting them be taught in a #language they use often,#Swahili—Ukitaka waweze kujifunza #Kiingereza vizuri,fungulia kwanza ndimi zao kwa kuruhusu wafundishwe kwa #lugha wanayoitumia sana,#Kiswahili.🗣
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This #SOASLangs week, we'll delve in our #African languages holdings @SOASLibrary and @SOAS_SpecColl, or rather just brush on their surface: with several 100s of languages and dialects represented, it is our most #multilingual collection!

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Let's start with #Swahili also known as #Kiswahili.

This @SOAS "Language for Lockdown" video is a great introduction to the 1,200 years history of Swahili: .

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@SOAS @CAS_SOAS @SOAS_SpecColl hold a great collection of Swahili manuscripts, see digital.soas.ac.uk/swahili.

Among them figure a few copies of al-Inkishafi "The Soul's Awakening", a 19th cent. poem by Sayyid Abdallah bin Ali bin Nassir.

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