the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa
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swahili::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | bantoid language, bantu |
Examples of swahili
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Swahili jazz gave Tanzania a sense of independence and togetherness as a country.
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Swahili traders used dhows to conduct trade though many ports along the coast.
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Swahili, structurally a Bantu Language with heavy borrowings from Arabic, was born.
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Swahili orthography does not distinguish aspirated from tenuis consonants.
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Beginning in Kenya and Tanzania, the swahili culture eventually spread to Mozambique.
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The government fully functions in swahili and it is expected to do so.
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Swahili, like all other Bantu languages, has numerous noun classes.
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Swahili and English are the official languages, however the former is the national language.
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Swahili fishermen of today still rely on the ocean to supply their primary source of income.
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- The most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa
- Swahili (or Kiswahili) is a Bantu language spoken by various ethnic groups that inhabit several large stretches of the Indian Ocean coastline from northern Kenya to northern Mozambique, including the Comoros Islands. ...
- Swahili people, or Waswahili, are an ethnic group living chiefly on the Swahili Coast of East Africa, mainly the coastal regions and the islands of Kenya and Tanzania, and north Mozambique. The name Swahili is derived from the Arabic word Sawahil, meaning "coastal dwellers". ...
- And many other languages have a gender system in which the relationship between the logical category of an object and its grammatical gender is specified to a much greater degree. ...
- Adjective, of the Swahili people or region.
- Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa. (p. 542)
- (also called Kiswahili; see below for derivation) is a Bantu language of the Sabaki subgroup of Northeastern Coast Bantu languages. ...
- Dictionary project to translate Swahili to English.
- Swahili was an African language and society that developed along the coast of East Africa. As a result of foreign trade, Swahili was a mix of African, Arab, and Asian culture. The language itself incorporated both Arab and Bantu words. ...
