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.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Kiunguja canonical	2
Kiamu	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Swahili dialect ⓘ variety of Swahili ⓘ
alternativeName	Swahili language ⓘ surface form: Zanzibar Swahili
ancestorOf	Swahili language ⓘ surface form: Tanzanian Standard Swahili
associatedCity	Zanzibar City ⓘ
basisFor	Swahili language ⓘ surface form: Standard Swahili
closelyRelatedTo	Kiamu ⓘ Kimvita ⓘ
country	Tanzania ⓘ
historicalRole	primary basis for standardized Swahili ⓘ
influenced	East African Swahili varieties ⓘ
languageBranch	Niger–Congo languages ⓘ surface form: Niger-Congo languages
languageCodeISO639-3	swh ⓘ
languageFamily	Bantu languages ⓘ
languageOf	Zanzibar ⓘ surface form: Zanzibar Sultanate (historically)
lexifierInfluence	Arabic ⓘ English ⓘ German ⓘ Persian language ⓘ surface form: Persian Portuguese language ⓘ surface form: Portuguese
modernUsage	basis of Tanzanian national Swahili standard ⓘ
morphologicalFeature	agglutinative verb morphology ⓘ noun class system ⓘ
partOf	Swahili language ⓘ surface form: Swahili language continuum
phonologicalFeature	five-vowel system ⓘ
primaryRegion	Zanzibar ⓘ surface form: 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 alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Swahili language → hasMajorDialect → Kiunguja ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kiamu

Baraza la Kiswahili Zanzibar (BAKIZA) → languageOfWork → Kiunguja ⓘ

subject surface form: Baraza la Kiswahili Zanzibar