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Meaning
Noun
●
A
member
of various
ethnic groups
—
mainly
Bantu, Afro-Arab and Comorian —
inhabiting
the Swahili coast.
Name
●
An
agglutinative language
of the Bantu
branch
widely
spoken in East Africa. Born in its
modern
form from the
hybridization
of the Arabic and Bantu
cultures
, it was the language of the
traders
in East Africa, and
spread
along the
routes
of trade.
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