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Question: What evidence proves that the Swahili merchants traded with the Arab world!? With China!?
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the Swahili language is "pidgin arabic" (actually a mix of Arabic and some Bantu words)

Zanzibar used to be a part of the Sultanate of Oman- and is considered a "capital" of the "swahili culture"

Swahili is used in all the areas where arab slave traders operated- it is their language (or the one they used to talk to their servants and slaves)

as to china- there are plenty of wrecks with chinese porcelain and silver!. China was also a major market for slaves - though they only took castrated males (due to Chinese laws)

Tons of historical evidence for all of the aboveWww@QuestionHome@Com