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English status Used by some <a href=/region/ASI>Asian</a> residents as mother tongue. Taught in secondary school and university. Bible 1535-1989. Used in primary schools, law courts. Official <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. <a href=/graph-T/med_new>Newspapers</a>, radio programs. Bible 1535-1989.
Languages Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages; <i>note:</i> Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources including Arabic and English; it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
Linguistic diversity index 0.965
Ranked 4th. 4% more than Uganda 		0.928
Ranked 11th.
Major language(s) English, Swahili English (official), Swahili (official), Luganda, various Bantu and Nilotic languages

SOURCES: Ethnologue; CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; Wikipedia: Linguistic diversity index (Rankings by country) (UNESCO World Report – Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue); British Broadcasting Corporation 2014

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