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Language inverting rules about greeting with personal pronoun (7)

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swahili

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'language' is the definition.
(Swahili is an example)

'inverting rules about greeting with personal pronoun' is the wordplay.
'inverting' shows that the letters should be reversed in order (I've seen 'inverts' mean this).
'rules' becomes 'laws' (laws are rules).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'greeting with' becomes 'hi' (hi is a kind of greeting. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'personal pronoun' becomes 'I' (I is an English personal pronoun).
'laws' written backwards gives 'swal'.
'swal' going around 'hi' is 'swahil'.
'swahil'+'i'='SWAHILI'

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(Other definitions for swahili that I've seen before include "African tongue" , "heard in parts of Africa" , "Language widely used in East Africa" , "An official language spoken in 15" , "Language giving us bwana, safari" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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