Swahili-English Dictionary

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@salum55996 Asante kwa pendekezo zuri. Hata kama hatuwezi kuhakikisha litatimizwa lini, hakika litazingatiwa.

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From now on, you can click on cross-references in MobiTUKI to directly view the referred entry. For example, https://t.co/BVHejQwLnH

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#Fact 📊 According to a study we have just conducted, 15% of Swahili words in our Swahili to English dictionary have an Arabic origin.

📋 To be precise, they are 2,274 out of 14,577 entries.

No one can say that Swahili is "an Arabic dialect" anymore!

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@Kalisha_Holmes

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@Kalisha_Holmes Yes! Just browse https://t.co/F5c0g6RUBh then tap on "add to Home screen" and you will have it in your home screen just as a normal iOS app, working even without Internet connection 😎

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@BantuLanguages So it was an urban myth! 😅 hongera 👏

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🤯This might be the weirdest entry in our dictionary. Can you find something more surprising in English or Swahili?

https://t.co/IqgtJ5Kx1o

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@BantuLanguages You will be surprised by this: https://t.co/aFXXx6Y9bP

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@AllanBrian1 @QwikeyTz @BantuLanguages Right. Here (page 8-12) there's a beautiful overview of the history of Swahili by the classic Polome:
https://t.co/Fj2QNh5zlR

It seems like Arabs traded in East Africa in times of Ptolemy, 1st century AD!

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@AllanBrian1 @BantuLanguages The grammatical structure of Swahili is much alike other Bantu languages. But it has a lot of vocabulary from Arabic. As you may know, it was born as a traders' lingua franca in East Africa.

What do you mean by "native"?

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@MickyJnr__ I hope a good dictionary on your phone will help 😁 https://t.co/F5c0g6RmLJ

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@SosoTheWanderer Not implying anything, but the TUKI dictionary has 26 Swahili words starting by "nyi-". On the possible origin of the "nyi-" concordant, I suggest Edgar C. Polomé's "Swahili language handbook".

And definitely, nyingi does not mean mother.

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Kuanzia leo, unaweza kubonyeza marejeo mtambuko ili kurejea moja kwa moja. Kwa mfano, https://t.co/AmTtqDdoTR

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From today, you can find Swahili irregular plurals in MobiTUKI Swahili dictionary. That's 145 words that are no more hidden! English irregular plurals are coming soon :-)

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Tangu leo, unaweza kupata nomino za wingi zisizofuata kanuni za kunyambulika (irregular plural nouns) kwenye kamusi yetu ya MobiTUKI. Maneno 145 hayafichiki tena! :-)

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@bin_klingschor Asante mzee! Tutasahihisha hilo.

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Hapa kuna kitu kinakosekana, eti mtusaidie kuona vizuri...

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@EthiopianSwahi1 karibu