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List of basic phrases and words. [6]Good morning – wabukire Good afternoon – wasibire Good night - ukeyesaye buholho Thank you (very much) – wasingya (kutsibu) How are you? – ghune wuthi?
The spoken word "Jambo" was once used as a greeting among traders of the Swahili coast of southeast Africa. [4] While less formal, it is in widespread use in East Africa and beyond. [ 5 ] While similar in use to the English word "hello," it really meant to come and settle one's affairs in the business sense.
During the film, Rafiki sings a nonsense chant: "Asante sana, squash banana, wewe nugu, mimi hapana." This is a Swahili playground rhyme that translates to "Thank you very much (squash banana), you're a baboon and I'm not!" Like "hakuna matata" (no worries), the chant was heard by the filmmakers on their research trip to Kenya.
Swahili clock as provided by the Kamusi Project. The Kamusi Project is a cooperative online dictionary which aims to produce dictionaries and other language resources for every language, and to make those resources available free to everyone. Users can register and add content. "Kamusi" is the Swahili word for dictionary.
Standard Swahili language arose during the colonial era as the homogenised version of the dominant dialects of the Swahili language.. Standard Swahili enabled communication in a wide array of situations: it facilitated political cooperation between anti-apartheid fighters from South Africa and their Tanzanian military instructors and continues to give members of the African American community ...
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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 ...
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