Word: kiswahili
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holy Ghost Fathers, for example, 26 young priests are at their mission posts in Tanganyika Territory today and eleven more, who worked in this section earlier, are in the U.S. Many of the latter could qualify as teachers of Swahili (the language is more commonly called Kiswahili), for they learned the tongue not only through years of actual practice, but also in the Mission Seminary of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost in Norwalk, Conn. Classes in Kiswahili are conducted there by Rev. Francis J. Fitzgerald, C.S.Sp. who spent twelve years (1927-39) in Bagamoya, East Africa...
...fact, one of these priests, the Rev. Joseph A. Griffin, C.S.Sp., presently shepherd of souls of a small group of colored people in Salisbury, N.C., has already offered his services to the University of North Carolina, to inaugurate a class in Kiswahili...