Kiswahili

American  

[kee-swah-hee-lee] / ˌki swɑˈhi li /

Or ki-Swahili

noun

1. a variant of Swahili.

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Example Sentences

"There is a term for it in Kiswahili - 'office mathe' - or the office mother."

From BBC

Their chants of “Let’s go Kenya!” and “Kenya, aye!” in Kiswahili filled the stadium with vibrant energy.

From Los Angeles Times

Or consider the Kiswahili language, which is Bantu in origin but borrows heavily from Indian and Middle Eastern tongues.

From New York Times

Book Bunk also partnered with the Nest, a Kenyan creative collective, to curate an exhibition from English and Kiswahili newspaper archives from the years 1963, when Kenya became independent, 1973 and 1983.

From New York Times

Like Zimbabwe’s Gappah, he braids Kiswahili into English; the tension both invigorates his language and heightens the struggles between Indigenous African peoples and their foreign overlords.

From Seattle Times