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Example sentences for: swahili

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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.
However, the 1957 New English-Swahili Phrase Book demonstrates a rather different world.
Swahili words were chosen because the language, a hybrid of Arabic and Bantu tongues, is tied to no particular African tribe.
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 is the lingua franca of East Africa, but it has a lot in common with Fanagalo, and the two include many similar words.