Languages of Kenya

[1] Swahili is a Bantu language native to East Africa and English is inherited from British colonial rule.

[2] Kenya's various ethnic groups typically speak their mother tongues within their own communities.

The two official languages, English and Swahili, are used in varying degrees of fluency for communication with other populations.

Additionally, a distinct local dialect, Kenyan English, is used by some communities and individuals in the country, and contains features unique to it that were derived from local Bantu languages such as Kiswahili, Kikuyu and Nilotic languages such as Dholuo.

[5] The 2019 census reports the largest communities of native speakers in Kenya as follows: Languages spoken by the country's ethnic minorities include:

Page from the Kikuyu publication Muigwithania (1929).
Lord's Prayer in Swahili , a Bantu language that alongside English serves as a lingua franca for many in Kenya.
English speaking countries
English speaking countries