plural Swahili or Swahilis
Definition of Swahili
1
: a member of a Bantu-speaking people of Zanzibar and the adjacent coast
2
: a Bantu language that is a trade and governmental language over much of East Africa and in the Congo region
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The first known use of Swahili was in 1814
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