 In the text "Early Swahili History Reconsidered", Thomas Spear noted that Swahili retained a tremendous amount of grammar, vocabulary, and sounds inherited from the Sabaki Language.In fact, while taking account of daily vocabulary, using lists of one hundred words , 72-91% were inherited from the Sabaki language (which is reported as a parent language) whereas 4-17% were loan words from other African languages.To a lesser proportion, 2-8% were from non-African languages.Arabic loan words consited a fraction of the 2-8%.