The social-[?] website Facebook has launched [?] Swahili, targeting more than 110m speakers [?] the language.
A group of Swahili scholars launched [?] new version with the permission of the California-based internet [?].
Facebook use has spread [?] the past five years in East and Central Africa, where most Swahili-speakers live.
Symon Wanda, one of the project's initiators, said they wanted to launch a Swahili version to safeguard the future of the [?].
"The youth, the future generation, if you look at [?] biggest percentage of users on Facebook, they are [?] youth," he told the BBC's Network Africa programme.
"They can easily navigate through when it's maybe a language they understand, which makes [?] easier to use the Swahili than to use the English."
The BBC's Ruth Nesoba, in Nairobi, says the Swahili site has already been [?] trial for some time and word has spread quickly.
Facebook's Simon Wanda says they have been monitoring the take-up and says more than 60% of Facebook [?] in East Africa are already using the Swahili version.
Facebook already exists in some 50 language [?].

Taken from BBC news