What phenomenon is the passage describing?

Over thousands of years, the migration of people throughout Africa contributed to the continent's rich diversity of cultures. Scholars have traced these migrations by studying language patterns. They have learned, for example, that West African farmers and herders migrated to the south and east between about 1000 B.C. and A.D. 1000. Like the Indo-European peoples of Europe and Asia, these West African peoples spoke a variety of languages deriving from a single common language.

a
the influence of the gold-salt trade on population patterns
b
the significant cultural effects of the Bantu migrations
c
the multicultural formulation of the Swahili language
d
the impact Bantu language had on native Africans



Answer :

The passage explains about the multicultural formulation of the Swahili language.

The Waswahili people who live along the coast and on the litoral islands of East Africa speak Swahili, also known by its indigenous name Kiswahili. Arabic and the regional Bantu languages are the main influences on Swahili. This blending of cultures is the product of years of active trading along the East African coast. Due to trade connections, Swahili has influences from English, Persian, Portuguese, German, French, and Bantu in addition to Arabic and Bantu.

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