"HOME – Home". Swahililanguage.stanford.edu. Arkivita el originalo la 15an de Decembro 2016. Alirita la 19an de Julio 2016. "After Arabic, Swahili is the most widely used African language but the number of its speakers is another area in which there is little agreement. The most commonly mentioned numbers are 50, 80, and 100 million people. [...] The number of its native speakers has been placed at just under 2 million."
Mazrui, Ali Al'Amin.. (1995) Swahili state and society : the political economy of an African language. East African Educational Publishers. ISBN 0-85255-729-9. OCLC441402890.