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The term Swahili refers o the blended African-Arab culture that had become common in East Africa
African and Asiatic people on the coast of East Africa
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Swahili
I love you (in Swahili, the language of the East African Bantus)
No special Swahili meaning. It is a name that occasionally pops up among East African Christians.
Bantu
Arabic, somilian, ethiopian.
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YES. Swahili was a language developed for use between Arab merchants in along the East African coast and the indigenous Bantu-speaking peoples who lived there. It has a mix of grammar and lexicon from both Arabic and Bantu languages, but is primarily a Bantu language.