Swahili

Swahili Swahili The name Swahili derives from an Arabic word Swahili, the plural of sahel, which means marge. The Swahili ar the descendants of the Arabs who came to the East African coast and intermarried with the Local Bantu-speakers. Arab traders sailed megabucks to the coast on the north-east monsoon winds, between November and April, and sailed back up to south-west on the reverse monsoon winds, between June and October, already in pre-Islamic times.

The coast, the land of Zenj to the Arabs, was inhabited by peoples of undetermined origin-perhaps by Bushmanoid groups, by Bantu spea kers, perhaps by Cushitic-speakers, perhaps even by people of Indonesian ancestry(who had settled in Madagascar as onwards of time as the first millennium A.D. and conceivably could befool settled further north as well). Initially Arab immigration was scarce, village was sparse and it was limited to the islands. But it did occur, marriage with the women of the coast took erupt and the f...If you want to get a full essay, exhibition it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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