Category:Swahili terms by usage
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Swahili terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
- Category:Swahili colloquialisms: Swahili terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
- Category:Swahili dated terms: Swahili terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
- Category:Swahili derogatory terms: Swahili terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
- Category:Swahili dialectal terms: Swahili terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
- Category:Swahili higher register terms: Swahili terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
- Category:Swahili informal terms: Swahili terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
- Category:Swahili nonstandard terms: Swahili terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
- Category:Swahili offensive terms: Swahili terms that are typically considered to offend people.
- Category:Swahili poetic terms: Swahili terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
- Category:Swahili proscribed terms: Swahili terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
- Category:Swahili short forms: Swahili terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
- Category:Swahili slang: Swahili colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
- Category:Swahili terms with archaic senses: Swahili terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
- Category:Swahili terms with historical senses: Swahili terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
- Category:Swahili terms with obsolete senses: Swahili terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Swahili terms with rare senses: Swahili rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
- Category:Swahili terms with uncommon senses: Swahili uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
- Category:Swahili vulgarities: Swahili terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
Subcategories
This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total.
C
- Swahili colloquialisms (0 c, 11 e)
D
- Swahili dated terms (0 c, 7 e)
- Swahili derogatory terms (0 c, 13 e)
- Swahili dialectal terms (0 c, 10 e)
H
I
- Swahili informal terms (0 c, 6 e)
N
O
- Swahili offensive terms (0 c, 1 e)
P
- Swahili poetic terms (0 c, 2 e)
- Swahili proscribed terms (0 c, 1 e)
S
- Swahili short forms (0 c, 3 e)
T
- Swahili terms with archaic senses (0 c, 7 e)
- Swahili terms with historical senses (0 c, 12 e)
- Swahili terms with rare senses (0 c, 20 e)
- Swahili terms with uncommon senses (0 c, 50 e)
V
- Swahili vulgarities (0 c, 4 e)