User:Tbm/Swahili/Todo/Words

This is a list of various resources that can be used to add words for Swahili, such as translations published by governments and documents available in both Swahili and English.

However, it's important to keep the Wiktionary:Criteria_for_inclusion#Attestation attestation criteria into account. Just because someone published a Swahili word doesn't mean it's actually genuinely used in the real world.

Agriculture

• Kilimo cha Kidijitali (Digital Agriculture)
  • Swahili and English - click on full screen on the PDF viewer and then you can download by clicking on the upper right corner
  • Translation by Philipo Mrutu

Animals

• baby animals
• They're Not Just 'Samaki': Towards an Understanding of Fisher Vocabulary on the Kenya Coast by Heidi Glaesel: a lot of fishing related words (but needs attestation!)

Economics and Finance

• Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management, published by OECD and translated by Dr. Omboga Zaja

Education

• Mwongozo wa Upimaji Katika Shule za Msingi, published by Baraza la Mitihani la Tanzania. Many education terms with English translations (maybe some can be added as standalone words and some as collocations).

Health

• Glossary of key HIV and Hepatitis terms

Linguistics

• Translating Swahili linguistic terminology into Italian: grammar terms; see appendix 1

Proverbs

• Proverbs collected by Claudia Dal Bianco and Johanna Emig
• [1]
• [2]

Slang

• Linguistic Manipulation In Kiswahili Slangs Used On Instagram and Implications on the Development of the Language: paper on slang used in social media (cite with Template:R:sw:Fred:2022).
• Paper Lugha ya Mitaani, Gender Stereotypes and Sexism (cite with Template:R:sw:Reuster-Jahn:2023).
• YouTube video about slang words

Technology / IT

• Kiswahili Style Guide from Microsoft
• Paper Expanding the Swahili vocabulary by Malin Petzell (2005)
• List of computer terms (page 15)
• Technical terms
• Technical terms

Misc

• Paper Kiswahili Research in Cognitive and Cultural Linguistics has a lot of idiomatic phrases (like mkono wa serikali, jicho langu, kula jasho) (cite with Template:R:sw:Kraska-Szlenk:2023)
• Paper "The externality of anger as conceptualized in Kiswahili" (cite with Template:R:sw:Kahumburu:2016)
• Paper Love' Encoding in Swahili: a Semantic Description through a Corpus-Based Analysis (cite with Template:R:Tramutoli 2015)
• Paper Service, slavery ('utumwa') and Swahili social reality (cite with Template:R:sw:Eastman:1994)
• Feed from BAKITA (Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa): they post new words (but they often don't seem to be used anywhere, so make sure to check attestation!)
• Kiswahili: Lugha Sanifu: Facebook group where people ask how to say things in Swahili sanifu
• Traffic signs
• Neno la Wiki by UN: explanation of words, often with good etymologies
• Syntactic classification of Swahili verbal expressions: a paper with many words and idiomatic phrases
• Many words and synonyms
• Some TV terms