Swahili

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Swahili Mswahili / Kiswahili, from Arabic سَوَاحِلِيّ (sawāḥiliyy, “(people) of the coasts”), from سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coasts”), broken plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “coast”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /swəˈhiːli/ (US) IPA(key): /swɑˈhili/, /swəˈhili/ Rhymes: -hiːli === Proper noun === Swahili An agglutinative language of the Bantu branch widely spoken in East Africa. Born in its modern form from the hybridization of the Arabic and Bantu cultures, it was the language of the traders in East Africa, and spread along the routes of trade. ==== Synonyms ==== Kiswahili, Kiswahili ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === Swahili (plural Swahilis or Swahili) A member of various ethnic groups — mainly Bantu, Afro-Arab and Comorian — inhabiting the Swahili coast. Synonym: (plural) Waswahili ==== See also ==== Wiktionary’s coverage of Swahili terms Appendix:Swahili Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Swahili ==== Further reading ==== ISO 639-1 code sw, ISO 639-3 code swa (SIL) Ethnologue entry for Swahili, swa ⁠, a macrolanguage including: == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from English Swahili. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌsʋaːˈɦi.li/ Hyphenation: Swa‧hi‧li Rhymes: -ili === Proper noun === Swahili n Swahili (language)