Ebook: A handbook of the Swahili language as spoken at Zanzibar

London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1919. — 488 p.There is probably no African language so widely known as the Swahili. It is tmderstood along the coasts of Madagascar and Arabia, it is spoken by the Seedees in India, and is the trade language of a very large part of Central or Intertropical Africa. Zanzibar traders penetrate sometimes even to the western side of the continent, and they are in the constant habit of traversing more than half of it with their supplies of Indian and European goods. Throughout this immense district any one really familiar with the Swahili language will generally be able to find some one who can understand him, and serve as an interpreter.