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Swahili is not a combined language. However, it has copied numerous words from different languages, especially Arabic. In a similar way, English is not a combined language even though it has copied numerous words from French, Latin, and Greek.

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Swahili is a Bantu language that has incorporated many words from Arabic due to historical interactions along the East African coast. So, the combination is primarily Bantu and Arabic.

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