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Swahili  

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  • Swahili (more properly Kiswahili) is in the Bantu family of languages that dominate most of sub-Saharan Africa. It is used as a first language by about five million people along the East African coast from Mozambique and the Comoro Islands to Somalia. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Swahili]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GM3BPVSS-2

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