| He and his informants converse largely in Swahili, and their cosmological references reach even beyond the boundaries of Tanzania and Mozambique. |
| Kwanzaa means first fruits of the harvest, in Swahili, the East African trade language. |
| Swahili nouns are divided into classes according to the grammatical prefixes they take. |
| The biggest problem for me on my arrival was having to learn to speak Swahili, the lingua franca of that part of Africa. |
| The kanzu in Kenya is associated with Swahili culture, and most wearers of the kanzu in Kenya are Muslims. |
| The Swahili language, a mixture of Bantu and Arabic, developed as a lingua franca for trade between the different peoples. |
