Which languages does Swahili include borrowed words from?
Some languages that Swahili has borrowed words from are Arabic, Portuguese, English, German, Hindi, and Urdu.
For example, the Swahili word for “book” is “kitabu,” from the Arabic “كتاب,” transliterated as “kitab.”
Swahili includes loanwords from these languages due to centuries of trade, colonization, and cultural exchange.
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