Swahili is a Bantu language. It is the official language of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and it is widely used throughout East Africa. Here are the numbers from one to ten in Swahili:
moja
mbili
tatu
nne
tano
sita
saba
nane
tisa
kumi
The /t/ is aspirated in all positions. The word for two, mbili, consists of a word-initial homorganic consonant cluster. The word for four, nne, has a word-initial syllabic nasal.
Swahili is a language which is widely-spoken in East Africa. It belongs to the Niger-Congo language family, a large family which includes most of the languages of Africa. The numbers from one to ten clearly indicate that Swahili is very different from Indo-European languages.
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