kiswahili

Updated: May 15, 2025

To my amazement a man answered in fluent Kiswahili! He had traded for skins in some barbarous district near the shore of Victoria Nyanza, and knew half a dozen Bantu languages. In a minute after that we had the plan well understood and truly laid; and, what was better, they had ceased to believe me a victim of nerves a fact that gave me back the nerve that had been perilously close to vanishing.

Talbot Mundy - The Eye of Zeitoon

I halted, and just at that moment came a parting yell from my boy, 'Hakuna! Kimbia! "I thought he had seen and heard the lion and lioness, and that, speaking as he does bad Kiswahili, he had said, 'Kakuna Kimbia! which might be roughly, though wrongly, translated, 'Don't run away! instead of which he meant to say in fact, did say 'No! Run away!

Various - Adventures in Many Lands