Swahili Civilization and Swahili Language

The Swahili Civilization 斯瓦希里文明 is a culture of people in east Africa. Swahili culture has roots in Bantu, but has been influenced by middle eastern, Arab, European, and Asian cultures, all while maintaining a different language. The Swahili civilization, starting in the 10th Century, became a land of cultural assimilation, which included the mixture of the cultures of Arabs and Persians, as well as Africans.  There were some cities that flourished under Swahili civilization. Those cities did not operate under one capital city or ruler, such as Roman cities did for Rome. The main exports of Swahili civilizations were ebony, gold and ivory. The Swahili civilization was also a great cultural center, from all the trading the Swahili's got traits from Islamic religion. To trade with other civilizations the Swahili traded with others deep inside Africa, they traded those goods with traders from the Indian Ocean.

 Swahili as a language 斯瓦希里语
 Swahili, also known as Kiswahili (translation: language of the Swahili people), is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people. It is a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of eastern and south-eastern Africa, including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, some parts of Malawi, Somalia, Zambia, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).Comorian, spoken in the Comoros Islands, is sometimes considered to be a dialect of Swahili, though other authorities consider it a distinct language.