[Zimma Man]

Wrong wrong Wrong!
Swahili is an African language with arabic influences. The grammer and structure of Swahili is African while only about 25% of the vocabulary is of arabic origin. Ati most of the words are from Persian and Urdu? Taja 10 swahili words of Persian and Urdu origin. Note that Urdu is also an arabic hybrid so choose urdu words with no arabic root. The fact is that Swahili is the National Language of Kenya and is the most spoken African language in East, Central and Southern Africa. It is the only language in Kenya that has both an oral and written pre-colonial history. That may be a hard pill to swallow for some.