English-French translations for swahili

• swahili
  Le hausa est la deuxième langue d’Afrique, après le swahili. Hausa is the second largest language in Africa, after Swahili.
  Certains d'entre vous doivent savoir que Nyerere a passé son temps libre à traduire Shakespeare en Swahili. Some of you may be aware that Julius Nyrere spent his spare time translating Shakespeare into Swahili.
  Je ne m’exprime pas en swahili, mais dans ma langue maternelle, l’irlandais, qui est malheureusement la seule langue officielle non reprise au sein de la Communauté. I am not speaking Swahili, it is my own native tongue, Irish, which unfortunately is the only official language not included in the Community.

Definition of swahili

• An agglutinative language of the w:Bantu languages|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

Related words

• Swahilian
• Swahilist
• Swahili language