With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely spoken languages and, as Priya Sippy writes, there is a renewed push for it to become the continent's lingua franca..
Swahili has been greatly influenced by Arabic; there are an enormous number of Arabic loanwords in the language, including the word swahili, from Arabic sawāḥilī (a plural adjectival form of an Arabic word meaning “of the coast”)..
“Jamba” means to celebrate in Swahili.
What achievements will you “Jamba” this weekend?.
"application" in Swahili
volume_up. application {noun} SW. maombi..
What is the translation of "chapter" in Swahili? en. chapter = sura..
Swahili Translation. orodha.
More Swahili words for list. orodha noun. register..
Swahili Translation. programu..
It enabled freedom fighters throughout the region to communicate their common aspirations even though their native languages varied widely.
The rise of Swahili, for some Africans, was a mark of true cultural and personal independence from the colonising Europeans and their languages of control and command..
