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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">centero</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Outlines of global transformations: politics, economics, law</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2542-0240</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2587-9324</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Center for Crisis Society Studies</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.31249/kgt/2025.04.08</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">centero-1978</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ПАНОРАМА АФРИКИ И БЛИЖНЕГО ВОСТОКА</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST: THE СHANGING LANDSCAPEES</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>История распространения суахили: от языка восточноафриканского побережья до языка общеафриканского масштаба</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>The History of the Spread of the Swahili Language: From the Language of the East African Coast to the Pan-African Language</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0524-0639</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Кольцов</surname><given-names>И. С.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Kol’tsov</surname><given-names>I. S.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Иван Сергеевич Кольцов, старший лаборант Центра изучения стран Глобального Юга</p><p>Нахимовский проспект, д. 51/21, г. Москва, 117418</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Ivan S. Kol’tsov, Senior Laboratory Assistant, Center for Global South Research</p><p>Nakhimovsky Avenue, 51/21, Moscow, 117418 </p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">ivankolcov136@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Институт научной информации по общественным наукам Российской академии наук (ИНИОН РАН)</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN)</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2025</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>02</day><month>08</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>18</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>141</fpage><lpage>152</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Кольцов И.С., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Кольцов И.С.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Kol’tsov I.S.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://www.ogt-journal.com/jour/article/view/1978">https://www.ogt-journal.com/jour/article/view/1978</self-uri><abstract><p>Опираясь на историко-генетический метод, рассматриваются и анализируются основные вехи эволюции языка суахили, начиная с его формирования в VIII в. Отображено развитие языка суахили как комплексное явление, отвечающее историческим вызовам. Отмечена роль языка как в контексте колониальной администрации, так и в процессе антиколониальной борьбы. Отдельной частью статьи выступает исследование места суахили в панафриканистском векторе политики Африки, а также его места в структуре ООН, трудностей, связанных с возможностью предоставления ему официального статуса языка ООН. Рассмотрены следующие этапы развития языка суахили: становление языка (VII–XIII вв.), появление арабографической письменности (XII–XIII вв.), появление португальских заимствований (XV–XVII вв.), распространение языка в районе Великих озёр (XVIII–XIX вв.), переход на латинскую графику в 1930-х годах. Обзор завершается рассмотрением современной ситуации, отмечены тенденции продвижения языка как официального языка ООН.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Based on the historical and genetic method, the main milestones of the evolution of the Swahili language, starting with its formation in the 8[th] century, are considered and analyzed. The development of the Swahili language is shown as a complex phenomenon that meets historical challenges. The role of the language in both colonial administration and anti-colonial struggle is noted. A separate part of the article presents the study of the place of Swahili in the pan-Africanist vector of African politics, as well as its place in the UN structure, and the difficulties associated with the possibility of granting it the official status of a UN language. The following stages of the development of the Swahili language are considered: the formation of the language in the 7-13[th] centuries, the appearance of Arabic script in the 12-13[th] centuries, the appearance of Portuguese borrowings in the 15-17[th] centuries, the spread of the language to the Great Lakes region in the 18-19[th] centuries, the transition to Latin script in the 1930s. The review concludes with a review of the current situation, noting trends in promoting the language as the official language of the United Nations.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>язык суахили</kwd><kwd>восточноафриканское побережье</kwd><kwd>колонизация</kwd><kwd>диалекты языка суахили</kwd><kwd>стандартизация языка</kwd><kwd>панафриканизм</kwd><kwd>распространение языка суахили</kwd><kwd>ООН</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Swahili language</kwd><kwd>East African coast</kwd><kwd>colonization</kwd><kwd>dialects of the Swahili language</kwd><kwd>standardization of the language</kwd><kwd>pan-Africanism</kwd><kwd>the spread of the Swahili language</kwd><kwd>the United Nations</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Виноградов В.А. 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