Swahili definition by Wordo

Noun

A

member

of

various

ethnic groups

—

mainly

Bantu

,

Afro-Arab

and

Comorian

—

inhabiting

the

Swahili

coast

.

Proper noun

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

.