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  2. Swahili Ajami - Wikipedia

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    Swahili Ajami script refers to the alphabet derived from Arabic script that is used for the writing of Swahili language. [1] Ajami is a name commonly given to alphabets derived from Arabic script for the use of various African languages, from Swahili to Hausa, Fula, and Wolof . In the 2010s, there has been work on creating new Unicode ...

  3. Swahili language - Wikipedia

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    Swahili has a significant number of loanwords from other languages, mainly Arabic, as well as from Portuguese, English and German. Around fifteen percent of Swahili vocabulary consists of Arabic loanwords, [8] including the name of the language ( سَوَاحِليsawāḥilī, a plural adjectival form of an Arabic word meaning 'of the coasts'). The loanwords date from the era of contact ...

  4. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a web-based free-to-user translation service developed by Google in April 2006. [11] It translates multiple forms of texts and media such as words, phrases and webpages. Originally, Google Translate was released as a statistical machine translation service. [11] The input text had to be translated into English first before ...

  5. Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Arabic is the third most widespread official language after English and French, one of six official languages of the United Nations, and is the liturgical language of Islam. Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities around the world and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, governments and the media.

  6. Influence of Arabic on other languages - Wikipedia

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    Influence of Arabic on other languages. Arabic has had a great influence on other languages, especially in vocabulary. The influence of Arabic has been most profound in those countries visited by Islam or Islamic power . Arabic loanwords have made into many languages as diverse as Amharic, Albanian, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Balochi, Bengali ...

  7. List of English words of Arabic origin (N–S) - Wikipedia

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    In Arabic grammar سلطانة sultāna is the feminine of sultān. Caliph, emir, qadi, and vizier are other Arabic-origin words connected with rulers. Their use in English is mostly confined to discussions of Middle Eastern history.

  8. Kamusi project - Wikipedia

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    Kamusi project. The Kamusi Project is a cooperative online dictionary which aims to produce dictionaries and other language resources for every language, and to make those resources available free to everyone. Users can register and add content. " Kamusi " is the Swahili word for dictionary. It belongs to Kamusi Project International based in ...

  9. Writing systems of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Arabic script is mainly used in North Africa and Ge'ez script is widely used in ... Tshiluba, Swahili, and other languages. ... meaning incompatibility of encodings. ...