The Effect of Swahili on the Language of Arabic Correspondence: A Documentary Study

Rāshidī, Sulaymān ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Saʻīd; Rāshidī, Khalīl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʻīd

The Effect of Swahili on the Language of Arabic Correspondence: A Documentary Study

Athar al-Sawāḥilīyah ʻalá Lughat al-Murāsalāt al-ʻArabīyah: Dirāsah Wathāʼiqīyah

أثر السواحلية على لغة المراسلات العربية - دراسة وثائقية

Sulaymān ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Saʻīd al-Rāshidī; Khalīl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʻīd al-Rāshidī

د. سليمان بن صالح بن سعيد الراشدي، خليل بن إبراهيم بن سعيد الراشدي

Conference: The Second Istiqama International Conference: Omanis and the Swahili World — Influence and Interaction — Mombasa, 2026

Romanized conference title: Muʼtamar al-Istiqāmah al-Duwalī al-Thānī: al-ʻUmānīyūn wa-al-Sawāḥilīyah bayna al-Taʼthīr wa-al-Taʼaththur

Language of the paper: Arabic — this page presents the English metadata layer.

Permanent citation ID: MHF-MOMBASA2026-027

Abstract

This research brings out the effect of the Swahili setting on the language used in writing and drafting administrative correspondence composed in Arabic, through a study of the documentary holding preserved at the National Records and Archives Authority under the title Social Affairs — Private Documents — East Africa, and the extraction of the Swahili terms written into this correspondence, which is typically addressed by members of the community to government bodies in order to complete their affairs and the requirements of their livelihood. The research uses a qualitative survey method, surveying and analysing the documents that make up the files of the holding under study, numbering 531 documents, and then surveying inductively the Swahili terms and words used in drafting and writing them, in order to study the patterns they reveal.

Keywords

Arabic correspondenceSwahili loanwordsArchival documentsEast AfricaAdministrative languageDocumentary study

How to cite

Rāshidī, Sulaymān ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Saʻīd, Rāshidī, Khalīl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʻīd. "Athar al-Sawāḥilīyah ʻalá Lughat al-Murāsalāt al-ʻArabīyah: Dirāsah Wathāʼiqīyah" [The Effect of Swahili on the Language of Arabic Correspondence: A Documentary Study]. Paper presented at Muʼtamar al-Istiqāmah al-Duwalī al-Thānī: al-ʻUmānīyūn wa-al-Sawāḥilīyah bayna al-Taʼthīr wa-al-Taʼaththur, Mumbāsā, 2026. MHF-MOMBASA2026-027

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