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Swahili nouns are separable into classes, which are roughly analogous to genders in other languages. In Swahili, prefixes mark groups of similar objects: m- marks single human beings (mtoto 'child'), wa- marks multiple humans (watoto 'children'), u- marks abstract nouns (utoto 'childhood'), and so on. And just as adjectives and pronouns must ...
Swahili may be described in several ways depending on the aspect being considered. It is an agglutinative language. It constructs whole words by joining together discrete roots and morphemes with specific meanings, and may also modify words by similar processes. Its basic word order is SVO. However, because the verb is inflected to indicate the ...
Specifically, Jambo is a Swahili language word that belongs to noun classes 5-6 for "collectives". Jambo primarily means 'affair', [1] in the sense of commercial, professional, public or personal business. [2] [3] Etymologically it is from amba (-amba) meaning to say. It is a cognate with Zulu. Secondary meanings include dealing with a thing ...
Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognized language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that ...
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Swahili on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Swahili in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
Swahili is an ethnic group but Kiswahili is the language spoken by the group. While it's allowed to say 'Swahili' to mean the language when writing in English, it's more acceptable if you don't use the words interchangeably 154.153.35.179 12:18, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
Swahili may refer to: Swahili language, a Bantu language officially used in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and widely spoken in the African Great Lakes. Swahili people, an ethnic group in East Africa. Swahili culture, the culture of the Swahili people. Swahili coast, a littoral region in East Africa.
Click consonants, or clicks, are speech sounds that occur as consonants in many languages of Southern Africa and in three languages of East Africa.Examples familiar to English-speakers are the tut-tut (British spelling) or tsk! tsk!