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Definition of Kiswahili
1. Noun. A Bantu language.
Definition of Kiswahili
1. Noun. Swahili, an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kiswahili
Literary usage of Kiswahili
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Idea of God and the Moral Sense in the Light of Language: Being a by Herbert Baynes (1895)
"kiswahili : penda to love, pend-ana to mutually love one another. The suffix -u,
which has here become formally an infix, coming immediately before the ..."
2. The East Africa Protectorate by Charles Eliot (1905)
"I would, however, enter a protest against the use of Swahili grammatical forms
in English; for instance, kiswahili, as the name of the language. ..."
3. Tanganyika: Eleven Years in Central Africa by Edward Coode Hore (1892)
"The fact is, that while in the former my hearers require considerable education
before they can understand the classical kiswahili I read, they are deeply ..."
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