Kiswahili
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Their chants of “Let’s go Kenya!” and “Kenya, aye!” in Kiswahili filled the stadium with vibrant energy.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025
In either case they formed an elite, hereditary merchant class, speaking Arabic or Kiswahili and trading with Africans in the interior for such items as ivory, furs, and gold.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Or consider the Kiswahili language, which is Bantu in origin but borrows heavily from Indian and Middle Eastern tongues.
From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2023
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 • Sep. 14, 2022
It was very hard because we were in Kenya so the exams were in Kiswahili, a third language I had to master beyond Dinka and English.
From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau
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