Swahili

swahili English + language + people sw Etymology en sw Mswahili / sw Kiswahili, from en ar سَوَاحِلِيّ (people) of the coasts, from ar سَوَاحِل coasts, broken plural of ar سَاحِل coast. en ar س ح ل Pronunciation en /swəˈhiːli/ UK en /swɑˈhili/ /swəˈhili/ US en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Swahili.wav Southern England en hiːli 3 Proper noun An agglutinative language of the Bantu branch widely spoken in East Africa. Born in its modern form from the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade. Ron Alexander B7 The Evening Hours 1983-12-30 https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/30/style/the-evening-hours.html On Tuesday night at the Club Serene in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch proclaimed Kwanzaa Week in New York. Then he told the crowd of about 400 that he had practiced his Swahili in order to pronounce correctly such exotic-sounding words as kujichagulia (self-determination), ujamaa (cooperative economics) and imani (faith), the theme of Kwanzaa '83. https://web.archive.org/web/20220103011841/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/30/style/the-evening-hours.html John Malathronas Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn? https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/learn-a-foreign-language-wellness 2021-04-25 Similarly, Swahili evolved as the trading language in East Africa and is described as having an Arab vocabulary upon an African grammar. https://web.archive.org/web/20220322023413/https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/learn-a-foreign-language-wellness Synonyms en Kiswahili Derived terms en Afrihili Sheng Settler Swahili Swahililand Swahilian Swahilization Swahilize Related terms en Sahel Translations language Amharic: am ስዋሂሊኛ Arabic: ar سواحلية السَّوَاحِلِيَّة f Armenian: hy սվահիլի Assamese: as চোৱাহিলি Asturian: ast suaḥili Azerbaijani: az suahili dili Cyrillic: az суаһили дили Basque: eu swahili Belarusian: be суахі́лі m Bulgarian: bg суахи́ли m Carpathian Rusyn: rue свагілі m, rue кісвагілі m Catalan: ca suahili m Chichewa: ny Chiswahili 7 Chinese: Cantonese: yue 斯瓦希里語 si1 ngaa5 hei5 lei5 jyu5 Mandarin: cmn 斯瓦希里語//斯瓦希里语 Sīwǎxīlǐyǔ Czech: cs svahilština f Dutch: nl Swahili n Esperanto: eo svahila Finnish: fi swahili French: fr swahili m Galician: gl suahili m Georgian: ka სუაჰილი German: de Suaheli n, de Swahili n Greek: el σουαχίλι f Greenlandic: kl swahilimiutut Hebrew: he סווהילי swahíli סווהילי / סְוָהִילִי, he סווהילית f swahílit סווהילית / סְוָהִילִית Hindi: hi स्वाहिली f Hungarian: hu szuahéli Icelandic: is svahílí n Inuktitut: iu ᔅᕙᐦᐃᓕᑐᑦ Irish: ga Svahaílis f, ga Ciosvahaílis f Italian: it swahili m Japanese: ja スワヒリ語 Suwahiri-go Kazakh: kk Суахили Kikuyu: ki Gĩthweri Korean: ko ^스와힐리-어 Latin: la lingua Suahelica f, la lingua Swahelica f Macedonian: mk свахи́ли n Marathi: mr स्वाहिली Navajo: nv Swahííli bizaad Nepali: ne स्वाहिली Norman: nrf Souahili m Norwegian: Bokmål: nb swahili m Nynorsk: nn swahili m Persian: fa سواحلی savâheli Polish: pl suahili n Portuguese: pt suaíli m, pt suaíle m Russian: ru суахи́ли m Scots: sco Swauheely Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh свахили m Latin: sh svahili m Slovak: sk svahilčina f, sk swahilčina f Slovene: sl svahilščina f Somali: so Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb swahilšćina f Upper Sorbian: hsb swahilšćina f Spanish: es suajili m, es swahili m, es suajelí m Swahili: sw Kiswahili Swedish: sv swahili Tajik: tg савоҳилӣ Tigrinya: ti ሰዋሂሊኛ Tumbuka: tum Ciswahili 7 Turkish: tr Sevahilice Ukrainian: uk суахі́лі m, uk кісуахілі m Urdu: ur سَواحِلی f Vietnamese: vi tiếng Swahili Yao (Africa): yao Ciswayili 7 Yiddish: yi סוואַהילי n Noun s * A member of various ethnic groups — mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab and Comorian — inhabiting the Swahili coast. en Waswahili plural en 2000 Arye Oded Islam and Politics in Kenya 12 The Swahilis are a unique and important community that began to form before the arrival of Islam, as a result of intermarriage between Arab traders who came to the coast and women from local ethnic groups. en 2017 Derek Nurse; Thomas Spear The Swahili 29 The final sources for the early history of the Swahili are the oral traditions related by them about their own past. See also sw Further reading 1 sw swa swa, a macrolanguage including: swh Swahili (specific) swc Congo Swahili en Languages Dutch nl: Etymology nl en Swahili. Pronunciation nl /ˌsʋaːˈɦi.li/ nl Nl-Swahili.ogg nl Swa hi li nl ili Proper noun n en Swahili (language) nl Languages