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kampuni

Luhya

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Noun

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kampuni

  1. company (in legal context, a corporation)

Swahili

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English company.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kampuni (n class, plural kampuni)

  1. company (in legal context, a corporation)

References

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  1. ^ Batibo, Herman M. (1996) “Loanword clusters nativization rules in Tswana and Swahili: a comparative study”, in South African Journal of African Language‎[1], volume 16, number 2, →DOI, page 38 of 33-41
  2. ^ Petzell, Malin (2005) “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia‎[2], volume 5, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2009-11-29, page 88 of 85-107: “Loanwords involve a total morphemic incorporation of single or compound words with a varying amount of phonemic substitution. The phonemic adoption increases over time which is shown in a word like kampuni ‘company’.”
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