Kiswahili

Borrowed from Swahili Kiswahili.

Kiswahili

1. Swahili, an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa.
   • 2010, Parliament of Kenya, “Chapter 2, Article 7(1)”, in Constitution of Kenya, 2010, page 14:

     The national language of the Republic is Kiswahili.

• Swahili

• Ethnologue entry for Kiswahili, swh ⁠

From ki- +‎ Arabic سَوَاحِل (sawāḥil, “coastal dwellers”), plural of سَاحِل (sāḥil, “boundary, coast”).

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ki.sʷɑˈhi.li/

• Audio (Kenya):

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Kiswahili class VII (no plural)

1. Swahili language

• Mswahili