English Loanwords in Swahili

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English Loanwords in Swahili
14th Febr. 03

• A presentation from Cornelia, Sevim, Sevde Alex

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Swahili

• About 50 million people speak Swahili

• Swahili is the national language in Kenya and
  Tanzania. It is also spoken in parts of the
  Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi,
  Zambia Mozambique.

• historical background

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Examples

• train
• soup
• bus
• towel
• jam

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Hypothesis

• In the Swahili language every loan word ends with
  a vowel.

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Our procedure

• Two native speakers
• Caroline is from Scotland, RP
• Joshua comes from Tanzania
• Swahili is a (C)CV language
• A few more examples
• screw skurubu
• bicycle baisikeli
• hotel hoteli
• weekend wikiendi

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• Therefore it is not a coda language as English.

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Syllable structure
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Syllable structure in comparison
O Onset
N Nucleus Co Coda

• bicycle b - aI - s - I - kl
• O - N - O - N - Co
  
• baisikeli b - aI - s - I - k - e - l
  - I
• O - N - O - N - O - N - O
  - N

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...The End...