al-Iqtirāḍ al-Lughawī min al-ʻArabīyah ilá al-Sawāḥilīyah: al-Dawāfiʻ wa-al-Anmāṭ - Ṭāhir, Muḥammad Muḥammad ʻAlī; Jābir, Jābir al-Zarrūq; Muʼtamar al-Istiqāmah al-Duwalī al-Thānī: al-ʻUmānīyūn wa-al-Sawāḥilīyah bayna al-Taʼthīr wa-al-Taʼaththur (2026) (Mumbāsā) (Mumbāsā : Jamʻīyat al-Istiqāmah al-Khayrīyah al-Islāmīyah al-ʻĀlamīyah, 2026)
This research treats the phenomenon of linguistic borrowing from Arabic into Swahili as one of the most prominent forms of linguistic and civilizational interaction between Arabs and the inhabitants of the East African coast. It aims to reveal the principal motives that contributed to the passage of Arabic vocabulary into Swahili, to analyse the patterns of that borrowing at the lexical, semantic, phonetic and morphological levels, and to set out its effect in shaping the Swahili language and its cultural and expressive functions. The study proceeds from a set of research questions, foremost among them: what are the motives of linguistic borrowing from Arabic into Swahili? What are its patterns? And how did this borrowing contribute to the development of Swahili? The importance of the research lies in bringing out the linguistic dimension of Arab-African civilizational interaction and offering an extended analytical treatment that goes beyond descriptive presentation.
Permanent citation identifier: MHF-MOMBASA2026-025.
Text in Arabic; title also romanized (ALA-LC); abstract and keywords in English.
Keywords: Linguistic borrowing; Arabic and Swahili; Language contact; Phonology; Morphology; Cultural interaction