section_path: Dialects and closely related languages/Dialects
section_name: Dialects
paragraph_text: Dialects
  
  Modern standard Swahili, written in Latin, is based on Kiunguja, the dialect spoken in Zanzibar City.
  
  Swahili literature and poetry, traditionally written in Swahili Ajami, is based on Kiamu, the dialect of Lamu on the Kenyan Coast.
  
  But there are numerous other dialects of Swahili, some of which are mutually unintelligible, such as the following: