National
Helplines
Police - 112 / 999
Ambulance - 115
Fire - 114
Coast guards - 110
Crime stoppers - 111
Anti-corruption - 113
Health help line - 117
Child help-line - 116
National
Languages
Kiswahili or Swahili, Kiunguja (name for Swahili
in Zanzibar)
English (primary language of commerce, administration,
and higher education)
Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local
languages
Note: Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue
of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and
nearby coastal Tanzania
Although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and
origin
Its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources
including Arabic and English
it has become the lingua franca of central
and eastern Africa
The first language of most people is one of
the local languages
