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Given names used by African-American people are often invented or creatively-spelled variants of more traditional names. Some names are created using syllables; for example, the prefixes La- or De- and the suffixes -ique or -isha. Also, punctuation marks such as apostrophes and dashes are sometimes used, though infrequent. [11]
Amharic-language names (73 P) Arabic-language surnames (5 C, 749 P) B. Bambara-language surnames (2 P) Bantu-language surnames (7 C, 65 P) ... Swahili-language ...
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It appears that "Dschagga" was the general name given to the entire mountainous region by distant residents who had cause to describe it, and that when the European traveler arrived there, his Swahili guide used "Dischagga" to describe other portions to him in general rather than giving him specific names. For instance, Rebmann on his second ...
Zuri is a given name of Swahili origin meaning “beautiful.” [1] It has been among the 1,000 most popular names for newborn girls in the United States since 2010 and among the top 300 names since 2018. [2] Zuri was among the five most popular names for Black newborn girls in the American state of Virginia in 2022. [3]
Pages in category "Swahili-language surnames" ... Kobe (given name) S. Shabani; Shamasdin This page was last edited on 18 September 2023, at 01:14 ...
The system observes that every name of a person, object or place has a meaning. [1] The system has been subject to westernization and attrition to linguistics due to the Kenyan adoption of Swahili language as a lingua-franca and the dynamic view that indigenous languages are provincial and irrelevant. Naming is referred to as Kogoochinet-aab ...
The Swahili Ajami script refers to the alphabet derived from the Arabic script that is used for the writing of the Swahili language. [1]Ajami is a name commonly given to alphabets derived from Arabic script for the use of various African languages, from Swahili to Hausa, Fula, and Wolof.