Do you speak Swahili?

We are looking at French, Swahili and Arabic.

If an Icelandic sentence has a translation in English, and the English sentence has a translation in Swahili, then indirectly, this will provide a Swahili translation for the Icelandic sentence.

The main language is colloquial Swahili, and the English language is extensively taught in schools.

Most adherents are Arab Swahili or Persian, but there are also people of Indian descent.

Islam was practised on the Swahili coast as early as the eighth or ninth century CE.

All courses are available in English and some are also available in French, German, Russian, Spanish and Swahili.

And Ushahidi, which means witness in Swahili, which geocodes and crowdsources information in complex emergencies to help target responses.

Due to the Arab and Persian domination at this later time, many Europeans misconstrued the nature of Swahili civilization as a product of Arab colonization.

A year and a half ago, four of the five people who are full time members at Ushahidi, which means testimony in Swahili, were TED Fellows.

Putting the case for more transparency in an election threatened with widespread boycott, the creators are using a collaborative map tool called Ushahidi (Swahili for 'witness').

By the beginning of the second millennium CE the Swahili towns conducted a thriving trade that linked Africans in the interior with trade partners throughout the Indian Ocean.

Since last year, Global Voices translators have been working with Refugees United to translate outreach materials, social media and SMS messages into Swahili, French, Somali, Amharic, Sudanese Arabic and Standard Arabic.

Its architecture, mostly dating back to the 19th century, reflects the diverse influences underlying the Swahili culture,With the East African culture being preeminent, there is a unique mixture of Arab, Persian, Indian and European elements.

Ushahidi the name means witness or testimony in Swahili is a very simple way of taking reports from the field, whether it's from the web or, critically, via mobile phones and SMS, aggregating it and putting it on a map.

These days, Global Voices' Lingua translators produce 15 different language editions of this website (18, if you count the up and coming Swahili, Russian, and Serbian) so people around the world who don't speak English, can join the global conversation.

One of their recent sleekly shot videos is Kaazi Yetu , Swahili for Our Job . In it the duo speak about the work of the police, citing and thanking different people including President Yoweri Museveni, Inspector General of Police, General Kale Kayihura and others.

Of the proposed additional 591 posts, 395 national General Service staff posts represent the conversion of 395 individual contractors who are already on the ground acting as interpreters translators and performing core interpretation and translation functions from to national languages (Swahili, Lingala and Chiluba), French and English.