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Example sentences for: swahili

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Swahili words were chosen because the language, a hybrid of Arabic and Bantu tongues, is tied to no particular African tribe.
Such words can also be termed proper names or proper nouns, though these more general terms may also include titles ( The Times, Gone With The Wind ), nationalities ( the Japanese, Russians ), ethnic or religious groups ( Arabs, Jews ), languages ( English, Swahili ), buildings ( the Central Station, Durham Cathedral ), and organizations ( OPEC, the United Nations ).
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.
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.
Karenga took the holiday's name from the Swahili phrase matunda yakwanza , meaning "first fruit."