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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. It belongs to Kamusi Project International based in ...
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 ...
English-Swahili Dictionary, 1894, 1902² Clarendon Press online at archive.org; Swahili-English dictionary, 1903 Oxford, Clarendon press online at archive.org; Kiunangi or Story and History from Central Africa, Written by Boys in the Schools of the Universities Mission to Central Africa. Arthur Cornwallis Madan, G. Bell, London 1887, online here
Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili. Taasisi ya Taaluma za Kiswahili (Institute of Kiswahili Studies), known by its acronym TATAKI, is a research body dedicated to the research of the Kiswahili language and literature at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania .
Njogu was born in Kericho County. After teaching high school, he pursued further education in Swahili studies, gaining his bachelor's degree from Kenyatta University in 1985 and Masters from University of Nairobi. He joined the faculty of Kenyatta University. In 1988, he embarked on a scholarship at the department of Linguistics at Yale ...
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 ...
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.