The Role of Borrowings in the Development of Swahili Vocabulary (on the Material of Arabic Loan Words)

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of Swahili vocabulary development by means of borrowings from the Arab language. A lot of borrowed words and word combinations belonging to different semantic groups are being analyzed here.

Keywords

• заимствование
• ассимиляция
• семантическая группа
• бытовая и разговорная лексика
• научно-техническая терминология
• фразеология