The only reason European scholars needed to claim that Kiswahili came from Arabic is because they did not want to admit that Kiswahili; a Bantu language is as much Semitic as Arabic is and recognising its Bantu origin would include all the 600 Bantu languages. Unlike modern Hebrew which is Yiddish, Paleo Hebrew/ Ancient Kabiru is Bantu expanded into 600 Sub Saharan African Bantu languages and the reason why Arabic is similar to Kiswahili. Many of the Kiswahili words people claim come from Arabic