Swahili - Kiswahili (English spelling)

Japanese: スワヒリ語 - すわひりご(英語表記)Kiswahili
Swahili - Kiswahili (English spelling)

It is a common language formed by the influence of a Bantu language spoken on the east coast of Africa and the language of Arabs who came by sea on the monsoons for trade. It is spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), and is one of the largest languages ​​in Black Africa, with a population of tens of millions of speakers. However, most of the speakers are native speakers of their own tribal language. Linguistically, it retains the characteristics of a Bantu language, such as nouns being divided into a considerable number of classes, and some of the forms of adjectives that modify nouns differ depending on which class they belong to, and familiar vocabulary is also mostly of Bantu origin. It has five vowels and a single type of accent. There are considerable dialect differences depending on the region.

[Yasuhito Yukawa]

"Swahili-Japanese Dictionary" edited by Yoichi Wasaki (1980, Yotokusha)

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

アフリカ東海岸で話されていたバントゥ(バントゥー)系のある言語に、季節風に乗って海路交易にやってきたアラブ人の言語の影響が加わって形成された広域共通語。タンザニア、ケニア、ウガンダ、コンゴ民主共和国(旧ザイール)東部などで話され、話し手人口数千万人に達するブラック・アフリカ最大の言語の一つである。ただし、その話し手の多くは各自の部族語を母語とする人々である。言語的には、名詞がかなりの数のクラスに分かれ、どのクラスに属するかで修飾する形容詞などの形の一部が異なるなどバントゥ語としての特徴を保持し、身近な語彙(ごい)もおおむねバントゥ起源である。母音は五つで、アクセントは一型化している。地域によってかなりの方言差が認められる。

[湯川恭敏]

『和崎洋一編『スワヒリ語・日本語辞典』(1980・養徳社)』

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