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is the language of secondary education, universities, technology, and higher courts. The government announced in 2015 that it would discontinue the use of English as a language of education as part of an overhaul of the Tanzanian schools' system.
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spoken in Tanzania. Two are institutional, 18 are developing, 58 are vigorous, 40 are endangered, and 8 are dying. There are also three languages that recently became extinct.
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Nurse, D. and Philippson, G. (2019). CLDF dataset derived from Nurse and Philippson's "Tanzania Language Survey" from 1975 (Version v3.0) . Zenodo.
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country. There are many languages spoken in the country, none of which is spoken natively by a majority or a large plurality of the population.
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is the language of the social and political sphere as well as primary and adult education, whereas
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Most languages spoken locally belong to two broad language families:
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Languages spoken by the country's ethnic minorities include:
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ethnic minorities speak languages belonging to the separate
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Tanzania's various ethnic groups typically speak their
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AFK Insider. 17 February 2015 926: 914:Nadharia ya lugha Kiswahili 1. 1: 819: 986:Map of languages of Tanzania 7: 2686:Water supply and sanitation 807: 267:), spoken by the country's 244:, there are a total of 126 210: 10: 2801: 2736: 2698: 2586: 2577: 2517: 2508: 2410: 2401: 2344: 2335: 2322: 2241: 2119: 2094: 1813: 1753: 1722: 1664: 1621: 1581: 1513: 1445: 1417: 1367: 1289: 1273: 1175: 1130: 1079: 1068: 1059: 1050: 1029: 145: 133: 100: 64: 47: 25: 20: 2728:House of Representatives 1861:Central African Republic 352:Tanzanian sign languages 203:), are widely spoken as 140:Tanzanian sign languages 1761:7 school sign languages 892:"Languages of Tanzania" 568:West Kilimanjaro (Meru) 2666:Persecution of Albinos 2329: 2266:East African Campaign 964:10.5281/zenodo.3535171 647: 646:Newspapers in Tanzania 387: 350:Additionally, several 235: 178: 2785:Languages of Tanzania 2328: 2284:Sultanate of Zanzibar 2021:SĂŁo TomĂ© and PrĂ­ncipe 1881:Republic of the Congo 1723:Isolates/unclassified 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Swahili
English
Zanzibar
Official
Swahili
English
Regional
Arabic
Zanzibar
Chaga
Makonde
Sukama
Nyiramba
Datooga
Minority
Bantu
Cushitic
Nilotic
Hadza
Sandawe
Omaio
Signed
Tanzanian sign languages
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