English-Spanish translations for swahili

• suaheli
• suahili
  Quizá algunos de ustedes sepan que Julius Nyrere dedicaba su tiempo libre a traducir a Shakespeare al suahili. Some of you may be aware that Julius Nyrere spent his spare time translating Shakespeare into Swahili.
• suajelí
• suajili
• swahili
  El hausa es el segundo idioma más hablado de África, después del swahili. Hausa is the second largest language in Africa, after Swahili.
  No estoy hablando en swahili, sino en mi lengua materna, el irlandés, que por desgracia es la única lengua oficial que no está admitida en la Comunidad. I am not speaking Swahili, it is my own native tongue, Irish, which unfortunately is the only official language not included in the Community.
  Señor Presidente, hay un antiguo dicho swahili: «Nunca te sitúes entre un río y un hipopótamo». Mr President, there is an old Swahili saying: ‘Never stand between a river and a hippopotamus’.

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