Oriental Influences in Swahili: A Study in Language and Culture Contacts

Arabic loans areas Asians borrowed British called century changes cloth coast coastal common confused culture Cut./Guj Cut./Guj./Hindi Cutchi Daressalaam defines derived developed dialects Dictionary early East Africa Eastern Africa elements English etymology European example followed foreign further given gives Gujarati Hindi Hindu identified importance included Indian Ocean Indic Indo-Aryan languages influence Iranian Islamic islands JK Pers Johnson KAMUSI Kenya kind later linguistic LK nml loans in Swahili loanwords Lodhi major meaning meat Mombasa Muslim native noun Oriental origin period Pers Persian person political Port Portuguese present probably reference region replaced respectively rice rule schools similar slave social South southern speakers standard structural suggested synonym Tanzania term Town trade traditional Turk Turkish Uganda University usage verb Zanzibar