Swahili, Saying, Telling and Applicatives

Since Swahili promotes obliques to direct object to handle datives, I'm
surprised that there is an unrelated word for tell. I would have
expected sema + applicative, although tell does look like it is formed
in this way. Is there a verb amba? I actually have the Madan (I think)
Swahili-English dictionary so I guess I can look it up.

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>I know of three in Swahili:
>ambia = say to, tell.
>ongea = talk
>sema = say, speak
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