Arabic vs. Swahili

Arabicadjective

Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians.

Swahilinoun

the most widely spoken Bantu languages; the official language of Kenya and Tanzania and widely used as a lingua franca in east and central Africa

Arabicnoun

The language of the Arabians.

Arabicnoun

the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects

Arabicadjective

relating to or characteristic of Arabs;

‘Arabic languages’;

Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, al-ʿarabiyyah [al ʕaraˈbijːa] (listen) or عَرَبِيّ‎, ʿarabīy [ˈʕarabiː] (listen) or [ʕaraˈbij]) is a Semitic language that first emerged in the 1st to 4th centuries CE. It is now the lingua franca of the Arab world. It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living in the Arabian Peninsula bounded by eastern Egypt in the west, Mesopotamia in the east, and the Anti-Lebanon mountains and Northern Syria in the north, as perceived by ancient Greek geographers.