— Swahilian , adj.
/swah hee"lee/ , n. , pl. Swahilis , ( esp. collectively ) Swahili for 1.
1. a member of a Bantu people of Zanzibar and the neighboring coast of Africa.
2. Also, Kiswahili, ki-Swahili . the Bantu language of the Swahili people, used also as a lingua franca in Tanzania, Kenya, and parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.