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PRONUNCIATION OF KINGWANA

Kingwana  [kɪŋˈwɑːnə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KINGWANA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kingwana is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KINGWANA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of Kingwana in the English dictionary

The definition of Kingwana in the dictionary is a language of the Democratic Republic of Congo in W Africa, closely related to Swahili and used as a lingua franca.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KINGWANA


Americana
əˌmɛrɪˈkɑːnə
antimarijuana
ˌæntɪˌmærɪˈwɑːnə
banana
bəˈnɑːnə
Bechuana
bɛˈtʃwɑːnə
Bophuthatswana
ˌbəʊpuːtɑːtˈswɑːnə
Botswana
bʊˈtʃwɑːnə
bwana
ˈbwɑːnə
Ghana
ˈɡɑːnə
Gondwana
ɡɒndˈwɑːnə
iguana
ɪˈɡwɑːnə
Juliana
ˌdʒʊlɪˈɑːnə
lana
ˈlɑːnə
mana
ˈmɑːnə
marihuana
ˌmærɪˈhwɑːnə
marijuana
ˌmærɪˈhwɑːnə
nana
ˈnɑːnə
Naxuana
ˌnækˈswɑːnə
nirvana
nɪəˈvɑːnə
Tijuana
tiːˈwɑːnə
Tswana
ˈtswɑːnə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KINGWANA

Kings
kings-of-arms
Kingsford-Smith
kingship
kingside
Kingsley
Kingston
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Thames
Kingstown

WORDS THAT END LIKE KINGWANA

Adana
Africana
ana
bandana
campana
Cana
Dana
Diana
French Guiana
Guiana
Guyana
Habana
Havana
Indiana
kana
Ljubljana
Louisiana
Montana
rana
Toscana

Synonyms and antonyms of Kingwana in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Kingwana» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KINGWANA

Find out the translation of Kingwana to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Kingwana from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Kingwana» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Kingwana
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Kingwana
570 millions of speakers

English

Kingwana
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Kingwana
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Kingwana
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Kingwana
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Kingwana
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Kingwana
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Kingwana
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kingwana
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kingwana
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Kingwana
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Kingwana
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kingwana
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Kingwana
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிங்வானா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

किंगवाना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kingwana
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

KiNgwana
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Kingwana
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Kingwana
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Kingwana
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Kingwana
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Kingwana
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Kingwana
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Kingwana
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Kingwana

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KINGWANA»

The term «Kingwana» is normally little used and occupies the 143.711 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KINGWANA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Kingwana» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Kingwana» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Kingwana

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KINGWANA»

Discover the use of Kingwana in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Kingwana and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Open Problems in Linguistics and Lexicography
career as descriptive linguists, described their work as follows in the preface to their Manuel de Kingwana: “[The authors] proposed to discover the agreements and the disagreements of the parent Swahili and its daughter Kingwana, and to ...
Giandomenico Sica, 2006
2
Practical and Systematical Swahili Bibliography ; ...
760 Whitehead, John and L. F., 1928, Manuel de Kingwana. Le dialecte occidental de Swahili. Il contient des notes grammaticales en Francais-English ; des conversations en Francais- Kingwana-English ; un vocabulaire Kingwana- Francais- ...
Marcel Van Spaandonck, 1965
3
Intervention as Indirect Rule: Civil War and Statebuilding ...
were also instrumental in terms of language policies. The White Fathers, who dominated mission activity in Ituri according to an agreement with the colonial state, decided to use Kingwana as a unifying language in Ituri. Kingwana, a form of ...
Alex Veit, 2010
4
African American Writers and Classical Tradition
She knows many languages, “but for two days the week before, because of her ignorance of Shluh and Kingwana syntax, Scott might as well have been speaking Shluh and Kingwana” (133)—in Shluh- and Kingwana-accented English in It Is ...
William W. Cook, James Tatum, 2011
5
Tanganyika Notes and Records
The statement has often been made that the Swahili traders in the Congo spoke the dialect of Swahili known as Kingwana, but this term applies more rightly to the lingua franca as spoken by the Congo peoples. The distinction should clearly ...
‎1955
6
Tanzania Notes and Records
The statement has often been made that the Swahili traders in the Congo spoke the dialect of Swahili known as Kingwana, but this term applies more rightly to the lingua franca as spoken by the Congo peoples. The distinction should clearly ...
‎1955
7
The Bible Translator
In trading extensively with the neighboring tribes a language which is now called Kingwana developed. The Bible Society published two different versions of this trade language, the Kingwana Ituri and the Kingwana Lualaba versions.
‎1956
8
Africa since 1800
In fact, the Swahili language, known locally as Kingwana, remains the common language of this part of the DRC to this day. The Lower Congo Region and the Congo River Route The part of Western Central Africa least known to Europeans at ...
Roland Oliver, Anthony Atmore, 2005
9
The Bible in Africa: Transactions, Trajectories, and Trends
... or a daughter (a man or a woman). Mtoto wa mtu literally means "child of humankind." Mtoto wa watu or Mtoto ya bhatu in Kingwana (a Kiswahili dialect spoken in Bunia/North-Eastern Demo- eratie Republic 558 JEAN CLAUDE LOBA MKOLE.
Gerald O. West, Musa W. Dube Shomanah, 2000
10
Kiswahili
They share a variety of Swahili lingua franca which they are proud to call Kingwana (the language of free people) after themselves. In spite of this situation of Kingwana, the other groups have finally adopted it as a second language for ...
East African Swahili Committee, 1997

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KINGWANA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Kingwana is used in the context of the following news items.
1
140 languages in Black Country schools
Swahili (Bajuni/Tikuu) - Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Swahili (Kingwana). «expressandstar.com, Nov 14»
2
Kongwane follows his rugby dream
It was also during this time that Qondakele introduced Kingwana to the exchange programme. In a letter from Aylesford Bulls Rugby Football ... «Grocott's Mail Online, Sep 13»

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