Editing History of Madagascar (section)

===Bantus (from the 9th century)===
There is archaeological evidence that [[Bantu peoples]], agro-pastoralists from East Africa, may have begun migrating to the island as early as the 6th and 7th century.<ref name="Historical Archaeology" /> Other historical and archaeological records suggest that some of the Bantus were descendants of [[Swahili people|Swahili]] sailors and merchants who used [[dhow]]s to traverse the seas to the western shores of Madagascar.<ref name="Imperial Madagascar">History of Madagascar [https://books.google.com/books?id=13Yt9jLuKzsC&dq=history+of+Madagascar+Swahili&pg=PA49 An economic history of Imperial Madagascar, 1750–1895. By Gwyn Campbell. pg. 49] (2005). Retrieved February 15, 2012</ref> Finally some sources theorize that during the Middle Ages, Arab, Persian and Neo-Austronesian slave-traders<ref name="Larson" /> brought Bantu people to Madagascar transported by Swahili merchants to feed foreign demand for slaves.<ref name="Cambridge History">Cambridge World History of Slavery [https://books.google.com/books?id=5qp_3aL76isC&dq=history+of+Madagascar+Swahili&pg=PA76 The Cambridge World History of Slavery: The ancient Mediterranean world. By Keith Bradley, Paul Cartledge. pg. 76] (2011). Retrieved February 15, 2012</ref> Years of intermarriages created the [[Malagasy people]], who primarily speak [[Malagasy language|Malagasy]], an Austronesian language with [[Bantu languages|Bantu]] influences.<ref name="Tofanelli">[https://web.archive.org/web/20140909112552/http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/9/2109.abstract On the Origins and Admixture of Malagasy: New Evidence from High-Resolution Analyses of Paternal and Maternal Lineages]</ref> There are consequently many (Proto-)[[Swahili language|Swahili]] borrowings in the initial Proto-SEB Malagasy language.<ref>Dahl, O. (1991), op. cit.</ref> This [[Substrata (linguistics)|substratum]] is especially significantly present in the domestic and agricultural vocabulary (e.g. ''omby'' or ''aombe'', "beef", from Swahili ''ng'ombe''; ''tongolo'' "onion" from Swahili ''kitunguu''; Malagasy ''nongo'' "pot" from ''nunggu'' in Swahili<ref name="Adelaar" />).