Example sentences for: swahili

How can you use “swahili” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • However, the 1957 New English-Swahili Phrase Book demonstrates a rather different world.

  • One language is Swahili--as approved by the East African Swahili Committee in 1957; the other Fanagalo-- The Lingua Franca of Southern Africa, printed only twenty years ago but using language very alien to the urban Brit.

  • A different turn of the magic wheel and it'd be a Dawn Powell novel having sold 50 million copies in 385 languages including Swahili, instead of The Old Man and the Sea ?

  • Swahili words were chosen because the language, a hybrid of Arabic and Bantu tongues, is tied to no particular African tribe.

  • Similarly, unless you heard them spoken you might not recognize ajskrym, erebeta , and kontaklinser as, respectively, Polish for ice cream , Japanese for elevator , and Swedish for contact lenses . The champion of this dissembling process must surely be the Italian sciacchenze , which is simply a literal rendering of the English shake hands , although the Swahili word for a traffic island, kiplefti ( keep left ) runs it a close second.


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