Definition of Kiswahili

1. Noun. A Bantu language.

Generic synonyms: Bantoid Language, Bantu

Definition of Kiswahili

1. Noun. Swahili, an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kiswahili

Kirundi
Kirwan
Kisch's reflex
Kisenyi sheep disease virus
Kiseri
Kish
Kishar
Kishinev
Kishinyov
Kishoreganj District
Kisi
Kislev
Kissinger
Kissingerian
Kisumu
Kiswahili
Kit Carson
Kitakyushu
Kitasato's bacillus
Kitchener
Kitchener stitch
Kitler
Kitson
Kittitian
Kittitians
Kittsian
Kittsians
Kitty Litter
Kivu

Literary usage of Kiswahili

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Idea of God and the Moral Sense in the Light of Language: Being a by Herbert Baynes (1895)
"kiswahili : penda to love, pend-ana to mutually love one another. The suffix -u, which has here become formally an infix, coming immediately before the ..."

2. The East Africa Protectorate by Charles Eliot (1905)
"I would, however, enter a protest against the use of Swahili grammatical forms in English; for instance, kiswahili, as the name of the language. ..."

3. Tanganyika: Eleven Years in Central Africa by Edward Coode Hore (1892)
"The fact is, that while in the former my hearers require considerable education before they can understand the classical kiswahili I read, they are deeply ..."

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