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kampuni

1. company (in legal context, a corporation)

Borrowed from English company.[1][2][3]

kampuni class IX (plural **kampuni class X)

1. company (in legal context, a corporation)

2. ^ 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

3. ^ Tucker, A. N. (1946), “Foreign Sounds in Swahili”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies‎[2], volume 11, number 4, →DOI, page 859 of 854-871

4. ^ Petzell, Malin (2005), “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia‎[3], volume 5, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 November 2009, 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’.”