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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



... English primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education; Swahili widely understood and generally used for communication between ethnic groups; first language of most people is one of the local languages; primary education ...
— The 1991 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... in neck chains, on the roads among his own subjects. And this, mark you, for the failure of the chief to keep an appointment, when the fat-brained German failed to appreciate the difference in the natives' estimation of time. By Swahili time the day commences at 7 a.m. In the past, it was no wonder that chiefs, burning with a sense of wrong and the humiliation they had suffered, preferred to raise their tribe and perish by the sword than endure a life that bore such ...
— Sketches of the East Africa Campaign • Robert Valentine Dolbey


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


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