Category:Swahili terms by usage

Swahili terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Swahili terms with archaic senses: Swahili terms with individual senses that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature, sometimes still used for special effect, and typically recognized by native speakers.
• Category:Swahili colloquialisms: Swahili terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Swahili dated terms: Swahili terms that are no longer fashionable and thus are anachronistic, but still sometimes in use, especially by older speakers.
• Category:Swahili derogatory terms: Swahili terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Swahili dialectal terms: Swahili terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Swahili higher register terms: Swahili terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Swahili informal terms: Swahili terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Swahili nonstandard terms: Swahili terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Swahili terms with obsolete senses: Swahili terms with individual senses that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Swahili obsolete terms: Swahili terms that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Swahili offensive terms: Swahili terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Swahili poetic terms: Swahili terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Swahili proscribed terms: Swahili terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Swahili terms with rare senses: Swahili terms with individual senses that are rarely found in general use and may not be recognized by some native speakers.
• Category:Swahili short forms: Swahili terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Swahili slang: Swahili colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Swahili terms with historical senses: Swahili terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Swahili terms with uncommon senses: Swahili terms with individual senses that are in general use but not common.
• Category:Swahili vulgarities: Swahili terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.