Kiunguja

E21856

Swahili dialect variety of Swahili

Kiunguja is the Zanzibar-based variety of Swahili that historically served as the primary basis for the standardized form of the language.

Aliases (1)

Kiamu ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Swahili dialect → variety of Swahili →
alternativeName	Zanzibar Swahili →
ancestorOf	Tanzanian Standard Swahili →
associatedCity	Zanzibar City →
basisFor	Standard Swahili →
closelyRelatedTo	Kiamu → Kimvita →
country	Tanzania →
historicalRole	primary basis for standardized Swahili →
influenced	East African Swahili varieties →
languageBranch	Niger-Congo languages →
languageCodeISO639-3	swh →
languageFamily	Bantu languages →
languageOf	Zanzibar Sultanate (historically) →
lexifierInfluence	Arabic → English → German → Persian → Portuguese →
modernUsage	basis of Tanzanian national Swahili standard →
morphologicalFeature	agglutinative verb morphology → noun class system →
partOf	Swahili language continuum →
phonologicalFeature	five-vowel system →
primaryRegion	Zanzibar Archipelago →
regionStatus	prestige dialect of Swahili in Tanzania →
regionType	coastal urban dialect →
regulator	Baraza la Kiswahili Zanzibar (BAKIZA) → Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa (BAKITA) →
scriptHistory	historically written in Arabic script (Ajami) →
spokenIn	Tanzania → Zanzibar →
standardFormUsedIn	education in Tanzania → government communication in Tanzania → media in Tanzania →
standardizationCenter	Zanzibar →
standardizationPeriod	20th century → late 19th century →
subfamily	Sabaki languages →
typologicalFeature	SVO basic word order →
usedAs	lingua franca in Zanzibar → model dialect in Swahili grammars →
usedIn	Swahili literature → Swahili music lyrics → Swahili poetry →
writingSystem	Arabic script → Latin script →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Swahili language → Swahili language ("Kiamu") →	hasMajorDialect