{"id":44052,"date":"2023-03-25T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=44052"},"modified":"2023-03-25T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T23:17:00","slug":"the-story-of-how-swahili-became-africas-most-spoken-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/25\/the-story-of-how-swahili-became-africas-most-spoken-language\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of how Swahili became Africa&#8217;s most spoken language"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44053\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/swahili-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/swahili-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/swahili-770x578.jpeg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/swahili-360x270.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/swahili.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">O<\/span>nce just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa\u2019s most internationally recognised language. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/the-story-of-how-swahili-became-africa-s-most-spoken-language\/ar-AA1921QF\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa\u2019s most internationally recognised language. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/swahili.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44054,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44052\/revisions\/44054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}