swahili

Swa·hi·li

S s

Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [swah-hee-lee]
- /swɑˈhi li/
- /swəˈhiː.li/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [swah-hee-lee]
- /swɑˈhi li/

Definitions of swahili word

noun plural swahili a member of a Bantu people of Zanzibar and the neighboring coast of Africa. 1
noun plural swahili Also, Kiswahili, ki-Swahili. the Bantu language of the Swahili people, used also as a lingua franca in Tanzania, Kenya, and parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1
noun swahili African language 1
noun,plural swahili people of eastern Africa 1
adjective swahili people: of eastern Africa 1
noun swahili a language of E Africa that is an official language of Kenya and Tanzania and is widely used as a lingua franca throughout E and central Africa. It is a member of the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family, originally spoken in Zanzibar, and has a large number of loan words taken from Arabic and other languages 0

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Parts of speech for Swahili

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

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swahili popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

swahili usage trend in Literature

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