Tags: Language.
KiKAR is or was a Swahili pidgin spoken among the King’s African Rifles (KAR) of British colonial East Africa (Kenya Uganda Malawi). Although there were by design no native Swahili speakers among the KAR Swahili still functioned as the lingua franca and a simplified version of it served as a military jargon and pidgin for the troops.It is not clear if KiKAR is still spoken. Maho (2009) does not list it as extinct.