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He is quite aware that theselection is open to much criticism in detail,but advantagehas been taken of this Second Edition to make somealterations and additions.  \nPractical usefulness rather than scientific completenesshas been the object in view throughout.If further apology  \n280622  \niv PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION  \nis needed for the very imperfect result,it will be rememberedthat,for the purpose of this work,Swahili means Swahilias generally spoken and understood in Zangibar,and furtherthat this dialect has no literary standard.Its vocabularyis ill-defined and fluctuating,the proportion of Arabic words(for example)varying largely in different sections of its verymixed population,while words from every dialect in usebetween the Coast and the Great Central Lakes,and fromDelagoa Bay to Further India,from time to time asserttheir claim to be incorporated in it,and even a certainproportion from the languages of Modern Europe.  \nThe English Dictionary chiefly relied upon has beenWebster's'International’(Bell &Sons,ed.I89o).  \nA.C.M.  \nZANZIBAR,March 8,I9oI,  \n# ON THE SWAHILI LANGUAGE ASSPOKEN IN ZANZIBAR\n\nTHE common language of Zanzibar is but one,and that.amixed one,of the dialects of the Swabili language,which is itselfbut one member of the vast group or family of languages nowgenerally known as Bantu,of which Mr.Cust wrote('Lan-guages of Africa,'Ist ed.,p-345):‘This is,and is destinedto continue,one of the twelve most important.languages ofthe world.'The grounds for such an estimate are.brieflythese:—(1)The Bantu languages occupy about one-third ofthe whole continent of Africa.Draw a line from the Came-roons,on the Atlantic,due east to the Indian Ocean,and,withthe exception of outliers of the Hamitic and Nubah-Fulahfamilies on the east coast bending southward as far as theEquator,and the isolated Hottentot and Bushmen languagesat the extreme south-west,the whole native population southof this line speaks Bantu—that is,a population of perhapsfifty millions,spread over about three and a half millions ofsquare miles.  Bantu is not merely a common name fora large number of languages which only agree in beingradically distinct from all their neighbours:on the contrary,it is now generally allowed that all the languages includedunder the name are really one.The grammar is essentiallythe same.Lepsius enumerates twelve unique characterisficscommon to them all(Preface to'Nuba Grammar,'quoted byCust,p.294).A few will be noticed in connection with theSwahili language presently.On the other hand,the languagesmcluded in the family are very numerous.Cust enumerates ","cbCaidJpwYazNVl7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidJpwYazNVl7","pdf",20142882,554,"English","# Preface\n## To Second Edition\n# On the Swahili Language as Spoken in Zanzibar","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of this English–Swahili dictionary?\",\"answer\":\"It was compiled to help scholars in Central Africa understand English books and to support English students of Swahili by providing English equivalents plus short Swahili explanations for modern usage.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the dictionary help with translation accuracy?\",\"answer\":\"It distinguishes different meanings conveyed by the same English word, aiming to avoid serious translation blunders.\"},{\"question\":\"Which Swahili variety does the dictionary mainly represent?\",\"answer\":\"It uses Swahili as generally spoken and understood in Zanzibar, noting that this dialect has no literary standard.\"}]","ENGLISH-SWAHILI DICTIONARY | PDF",1790824149,853]