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Was there ever a Kiswahili word for ‘Holy’?

August 23, 2020August 23, 2020 by Nasra O. Bwana
Nasra O. Bwana
‘The available evidence suggests that in the mid-nineteenth century, at the second coming of European-Christians to the East African coast, there was no lexical equivalent for ‘holy’ or its near-synonym ‘sacred’ in the spoken language of the Swahili people.’Frankl, P. J. L., and Yahya Ali Omar (1999) When looking for…
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