suaíli — meaning in English
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English meaning
- Swahili name A Bantu language widely spoken across East Africa, historically shaped by contact between Bantu and Arabic-speaking traders.
Senses
suaíli is used for these senses in English:
- 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.
Swahili — full definition
- name A Bantu language widely spoken across East Africa, historically shaped by contact between Bantu and Arabic-speaking traders.
- noun A member of the Bantu, Afro-Arab, and Comorian peoples of the East African coast.
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