Their Own People

If anybody wishes to state that the people of the sea are not their own people then I challenge them to examine Swahili time and/or explain it. The Swahili tell time like no one else in the world. The Swahili did not conform to the way the Arabs, Indians, Portugese, English, Chinese or any other group they encountered tell time. They start the day at sun rise which is always at 6am world time because to them it made no since to start counting while people were still asleep before the day began. So 7am is Saa Moja which means one hour and therefore 8am is Saa Mbili (second hour). Due to the fact that the Swahili live so close to the equator they can set their clocks to the equinox which means that they have equal day and night. 12 hours of each. After Silent bartering was over each group that traded with the swahili learned Kiswahili which means that the Portuguese, Indians, Chinese, and Arabs had to tell time like this. 

Portugese missionaries helped the spread of Kiswahili into the interiors of East Africa because it was already such a developed language when they arrived. More developed than most of the other languages in the area; Because the Swahili were muslim they already had words for crucifix, god, angels and many other things that would have been hard to try to introduce to the many different languages that existed in the area. Some missionaries didn't want to use Kiswahili because of it's clear connection to Islam but it was the easiest way to spread to the most amount of people.