The delta's city-states were comparable to those of the Swahili people in East Africa.

Arab, Shirazi, and coastal African cultures produced an Islamic Swahili people trading in a variety of up-country commodities, including slaves.

Some Achewa chiefs saved themselves by creating alliances with the Swahili people who were allied with the Arab slave traders.

For example, proverbs have been used for teaching foreign languages at various levels., In addition, proverbs have been used for public health promotion, such as promoting breast feeding with a shawl bearing a Swahili proverb “ Mother ’ s milk is sweet ”, also for helping people manage diabetes, for to combat prostitution, and for community development The most active field deliberately using proverbs is Christian ministry, where Joseph G. Healey and others have deliberately worked to catalyze the collection of proverbs from smaller languages and the application of them in a wide variety of church-related ministries, resulting in publications of collections and applications ,.

The Swahili people had various extensive trading ports dotting the coast of medieval East Africa and Great Zimbabwe had extensive trading contacts with Central Africa, and likely also imported goods brought to Africa through the Southeast African shore trade of Kilwa in modern-day Tanzania.

* Swahili people, a Bantu ethnic group and culture found in East Africa

* Swahili culture, the culture of the Swahili people living on the east coast of Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique as well as on the islands in the area, from Zanzibar to Comoros, who speak Swahili as their native language

Zanzibar is mostly populated by African people of Swahili origin, but there is also a minority population of Asians, originally from India and Arab countries.

... Four million enslaved people exported via the Red Sea, another four million through the Swahili ports of the Indian Ocean, perhaps as many as nine million along the trans-Saharan caravan route, and eleven to twenty million ( depending on the author ) across the Atlantic Ocean.

Finally some sources theorize that during the Middle Ages, Arab, Persian and Neo-Austronesian slave-traders brought Bantu people to Madagascar transported by Swahili merchants to feed foreign demand for slaves.

The city is mainly occupied by the Mijikenda and Swahili people.

Shehe Mvita is remembered as a Muslim of great learning and so is connected more directly with the present ideals of Swahili culture that people identify with Mombasa.

Originally flourishing with Swahili people but currently becoming a more cosmopolitan neighbourhood.

* In Tanzania, and other Swahili speaking countries on the coast of East Africa the term is pronounced " assalamualaikum " followed by a reply of " waleikum-salam ", people usually shake hands, hug, and sometimes wave.

In southern Kenya, the Swahili people use it to garnish legumes and also make juices.

Taarab forms a major part of the social life of the Swahili people along the coastal areas ; especially Zanzibar, Tanga and even further in Mombasa and Malindi along the Kenya coast.

Wherever the Swahili speaking people travelled, Tarabu culture moved with them.

* Shirazi ( ethnic group ), a social group among the Swahili people of East Africa

The word Ujamaa comes from the Swahili word for extended family or familyhood and is distinguished by several key characteristics, namely that a person becomes a person through the people or community.

They flourished through trade with the Swahili people on the East African coast.

The Swahili people themselves were the inhabitants of the East African coast from Kenya to Mozambique who traded extensively with Asians and Arabs, who introduced them to Islam.

When Alfred Sharpe toured the major posts in the Lake Mweru region including Rhodesia ( Puta post ) and Kaputa, he found that Abdullah bin Suleiman, ( known by locals as Selemani ) a Swahili chief who lived 60 miles from Kalungwishi, had driven out the people there and was demanding salt tribute from other villages.

In Swahili, the more naturalized word Marekani means specifically the United States, and Wamarekani are U. S. nationals, whereas the international form Amerika refers to the continent, and Waamerika are the inhabitants thereof.

Although 700 local languages and dialects are spoken, the linguistic variety is bridged both by the use of French and the intermediary languages Kikongo, Tshiluba, Swahili, and Lingala.

Swahili and English are official languages.

Arabs are locally referred to as Washihiri or, less commonly, as simply Shihiri in the Bantu Swahili language, Kenya's lingua franca.

They are colloquially known as mzungu in Swahili.

The languages that are most spoken in the world today belong to the Indo-European family, which includes languages such as English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and Hindi ; the Sino-Tibetan languages, which include Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese and many others ; Semitic languages, which include Arabic, Amharic and Hebrew ; and the Bantu languages, which include Swahili, Zulu, Shona and hundreds of other languages spoken throughout Africa.

They speak Maa ( ɔl Maa ), a member of the Nilo-Saharan language family that is related to Dinka and Nuer, and are also educated in the official languages of Kenya and Tanzania: Swahili and English.

In the Swahili and Indonesian culture many of his stories are being told under the name of " Abunuwasi " or " Abunawas ", though this confuses Nasreddin with an entirely different man – the poet Abu Nuwas, known for homoerotic verse.

Only a few Niger – Congo languages are non-tonal ; Swahili is perhaps the best known, but within the Atlantic branch some others are found.

In Ganda each singular class has a corresponding plural class ( apart from one class which has no singular – plural distinction ; also some plural classes correspond to more than one singular class ) and there are no exceptions as there are in Swahili.

Trade languages are often full blown languages in their own right such as Swahili.

Middle Age Swahili Kingdoms are known to have had trade port islands and trade routes with the Islamic world and Asia and were described by Greek historians as " metropolises ".

The Swahili words for these seven principles are: Umoja ( Unity ), Kujichagulia ( self-determination ), Ujima ( collective work and responsibility ), Ujamaa ( cooperative economics ), Nia ( purpose ), Kuumba ( creativity ) and Imani ( faith ).

Swahili is well known for having words beginning with prenasalized stops, as in ndege ' bird ', and is many languages of the South Pacific, such as Fijian, these are even spelled with single letters: b, d.

Albanian, Arabic, Assyrian ( VSO and VOS are also followed, depending on the person ), Berber, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Italian, Ganda, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Javanese, Kashmiri, Khmer, Latvian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Quiche, Rotuman, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Vietnamese, Yoruba and Zulu are examples of languages that can follow an SVO pattern.

Swahili and English are the official languages ; however the former is the national language.

The Portuguese then attempt to monopolize the trade in the east African ports, but are unable to maintain control ( by the late 16th century, Swahili groups regain control of several ports from the Portuguese ).

Most languages of sub-Saharan Africa are tonal, notably excepting Swahili in the East, and Wolof, Koyra Chiini and Fulani in the West.

Notable non-tonal Niger – Congo languages are Swahili, Fula, and Wolof.

There are consequently many ( Proto -) Swahili borrowings in the initial Proto-SEB Malagasy language.