A brief lexico-semantic study of French and Kiswahili
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Abstract
Lester Mtwana Jao, “A brief lexico-semantic study of French and Kiswahili", Mambo! Vol. XIII (2), 2015. Languages are influenced and enriched by others all over the world. Today, there is hardly any “pure” language in the world, devoid of borrowed words from other languages. In this paper, we are going to examine the lexical influence of French to Kiswahili, spoken and taught in Kenya. This language is spoken in the whole country and is a compulsory subject in the country’s primary a..