Who were the fisrt to speak Kiswahili?

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1. dream1er75 says:

   October 13, 2009 at 1:04 am

   "Swahili (also called kiswahili; see below for a discussion of the nomenclature) is a Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. Swahili is the mother tongue of the Swahili people who inhabit a 1500 km stretch of the East African coast from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique. There are approximately five million first-language speakers and thirty to fifty million second-language speakers[citation needed]. Swahili has become a lingua franca for East Africa and surrounding areas."