Athar al-Sawāḥilīyah ʻalá Lughat al-Murāsalāt al-ʻArabīyah: Dirāsah Wathāʼiqīyah - Rāshidī, Sulaymān ibn Ṣāliḥ ibn Saʻīd; Rāshidī, Khalīl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn Saʻīd; 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 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.
Permanent citation identifier: MHF-MOMBASA2026-027.
Conference theme (in Arabic): المحور الرابع: الجهود العلمية والمؤسسية.
Text in Arabic; title also romanized (ALA-LC); abstract and keywords in English.
Keywords: Arabic correspondence; Swahili loanwords; Archival documents; East Africa; Administrative language; Documentary study