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Swahili   /swɑhˈili/   Listen
Swahili

noun
1.
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" Quotes from Famous Books



... (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili) used ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... even her emotional fragilities. There came to him the well-known conviction, "It's she that I've always been seeking." At dawn, smothering under his mosquito net, with the din of Arab and Hindu, Masai and Swahili voices drifting in through his shutters, his first waking thought was ...
— Sacrifice • Stephen French Whitman
... replied the fair young man in the mongrel Arabic-Swahili lingua franca of the Red Sea and East African littorals "that it is but natural for dogs to prey ...
— Driftwood Spars - The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who - Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life • Percival Christopher Wren


Words linked to "Swahili" :   kanzu, Bantu, Niger-Kordofanian, Niger-Kordofanian language, Bantoid language


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