Bantu language of the East African coast and off-shore islands, official language of Tanzania and Kenya. Used as a lingua franca for the East African slave and spice trade, Swahili incorporated numerous Arabic and later English words, but has still...

Swahili (called Kiswahili in the language itself) is the mother tongue of the Swahili people (Waswahili), who inhabit several large stretches of the Indian Ocean coastline from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique.[2] Although only 5-10 million...