THE IMPACT OF ARABIC LANGUAGE IN AFRICAN LANGUAGES: SWAHILI LANGUAGE AS A MODEL OF STUDY

Abstract

Arabic language has a notable direct impact on the African languages, which were influenced in form and content. The researcher will manifest this impact through Swahili language as one of the African languages being ​​influenced by Arabic language in its words construction and structures and some of its sentences through direct quotation or adaptation without change, especially Arabic connectors and classical method in poem construction in terms of: sensual areas, language of elocution, sentences and the existing linguistic construction on the sameness of poems as in the Arabic lyric poetry in its formation and content. Also, the Islamic civilization has a significant impact on Islamic terminologies and ideas in its intellectual discourse. Therefore, the study was divided into a introduction and two sections. She discussed the religious relationship between Arabic and African civilizations. In the first section, she studied the implications of Islamic Arabian in Swahili’s literature, poetry and prose, while in section two she focused on the manifestations of influence in language structures and sentences. The study adapted the analytical and descriptive approach as a method of the study.