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4. Swahili is likely to develop practically the same way in the Submission Timeline as in OTL, and might well have the same name -- sawahil is Arabic for "coast," which is a natural name for an Arabic-influenced coastal trading language. Swahili in the Submission Timeline, though, is likely to have more Hindi and "Axumite" loanwords. One of the KiSawahil words used above -- the word for the cotton cloth sold in Kilwa -- is derived from Hindi.

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