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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 Geneva.
Help:IPA/Swahili. 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. Integrity must be maintained between the key and the transcriptions that link here; do not change any symbol or value without establishing on the first.
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.
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.
Siku Njema is a Swahili novel written by the Kenyan author, Ken Walibora.The novel was published in 1996 and written in the first person. The book deals with the life of a young man, Msanifu Kombo (nicknamed Kongowea Mswahili) who is born in Tanga, Tanzania and who faces family hardships with his single mother, who is a talented singer of taarab.
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 ...
Sheng slang. Sheng is primarily a Swahili and English -based cant, perhaps a mixed language or creole, originating among the urban youth of Nairobi, Kenya, and influenced by many of the languages spoken there. While primarily a language of urban youths, it has spread across social classes and geographically to neighbouring Tanzania and Uganda.
On 20 June 2009, the Swahili Wikipedia gave its main page a makeover. As of October 2024, it has about 84,000 articles, making it the 82nd-largest Wikipedia. [4] The Swahili Wikipedia is the second most popular Wikipedia in Tanzania and Kenya after the English version with respectively 14% and 4% of the visits, as of January 2021.