I speak my mother tongue, Somali, as well as amhara/oromia/tigrinya/arabic/Italian/french and English. Now I'm learning turkish with other language its Sunnah..good luck for me. but we have to focus on Africa. keep doing it.
nice job....we Africans have to promote language, culture because we have many beautiful culture and languages....from Ethiopia (Amharic official language)
@@LogitechXibanga Just want to clarify that Amharic is a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia while Aramaic is also a Semitic language spoken around the time of Jesus. They are really easy to confuse because of the names, I can see how people get it wrong.
As a dutch Person from Zeeland, my answer before watching the video: berber🇲🇦 arabic🇪🇬venda🇿🇦South sohto🇿🇦Afrikaans🇿🇦Zulu(Zoeloe)🇿🇦xhosa🇿🇦somalian🇸🇴swahili🇰🇪
@@lagosian123 no i speak dutch and the there to much difference between dutch and afrikaans also old dutch doesnt look like afrikaans. Of course it has europian (dutch) roots but the language really got its identity in africa. Portugeuse, and french are just portuguese and French
@@batavica4135 That language is not an African language. It has no tribal inclination of being African. We speak pidgin English in Africa too and it doesn't make it our African tongue. "Afrikaan" is concocted/invented boer adulterated dutch solely spoken by the dutch invaders. It is Not our native tongue .
@@batavica4135 By the way no African country recognised it except Apartheid South Africa who wanted to enforce it on our people. Just as they tried to divide our people and created mixed race as a separated group called Coloured when these coloured have their indigenous root to Africa mixed with slaves/ indentured workers the dutch brought from India, Malay and Europe . We know our history!
Very interesting. When I lived in Holland, many Dutch friends assumed I spoke Afrikaans like every other African. They got confused when I pointed out that Afrikaans was actually related to Dutch.
This is far from being the case. The overwhelming majority of European languages do not have a country with a corresponding country. Just in the UK alone there is Gallic, Manx and Cornish, none have countries.
@@Andrew-mj5rf By being pedantic (btw 2 out of 3 of those cited languages are dead and now revived artificially by language hobbyists) you are missing the point of geography cueing remembrance of the language names, "lsle of Man, Cornwall", being the cues to remembering the lingo names, and them all being variants of Gaelic anyway. So the OP stands (in non contrarian context)😉
Europeans should at least learn Swahili or Arabic. South Africa has introduced Swahili in their curriculum, and I think most other African countries will too. So any Europeans visiting Africa for Business or to live will have to learn Swahili eventually
@@grahamt5924 It's time for Swahili now that's why it is the most spoken language in Africa and Alot of Europeans,Americans,Part of Middle East/Arabs are learning Swahili and teaching Swahili language in Schools. Wow 👏 .Swahili is taking over many places. East and Central Africa plus others in Southern Africa and so on .We are proud to speak 👏 our own African language. Very sweet 😊 smooth 👌soft n Romantic language 😍❤💕
3:50 what a dumb political phrase. If someome migrates to another country of course they need to learn the language. While if u don't migrate, why should someone learn these languages? Then u can learn a foreign language of course, but there are tousands of languages in the world, so just choose the one u want, it can, but does not have to be an african one.
Arabic isn't an African language. It's spoken across North Africa because of the Arabisation of the region, not as a native language. Just as English isn't an African language but it's widely spoken here because of colonisation.
Again it's really interesting, especially last interview ladies very informative honest is talked the root cause of the situation. I don't blame them at all. we have to blamed ourselves as africans. Why we have to develop our countries sensor other languages. Chinese mandarin is one first to learn now western why because they defeated statues qua. thats lies the problem,. respect, you have to earn it first, that's what is it. Thanks.
No we should not blame ourselves. That is a very wrong way of looking at it. Did we cause White supremacist thinking? Did we keep them ignorant of our languages? We are not responsible for that.
Beside European languages spoken in Africa, there are Niger-Congo langauges (such as Bantu languages, Swahili, Yoruba etc), Khosian languages (spoken in South-West Africa), Afro-Asiatic languages (like Arabic, Berber, Amharic, Coptic etc.), Nilo-Saharan languages (Chad-Uganda-Kenya) and Polenesian (yes!) languages in Madagascar. Weird but, Australian natives migrated to Madagascar even earlier than Africans themselves. Noone can count all those thousands of native-African languages, even Africans themselves :) By the way tn that grouping mentality, all the Europe just speaks Indo European languages, Finno-Urgic languages, Turkic Languages, Kartvelian languages and Basque itself alone :D
4:26 This woman is saying "the South African language. . . " and noted that "it differs from Dutch," so it is obvious she knows there is a language in South African [Afrikaans] which, while different, can at least be compared to Dutch. I'm thinking partial credit could be given. Also, at 5:35, this girl said, "Somali." While it may have been a guess, it was accurate, but the interviewer didn't acknowledge that she got one. I was just waiting for someone to come with with isiXhosa, with a click in it. :)
No, no partial credit. If you don't know the name of the country it doesn't count. It would be the same as giving partial credit for saying "Nigerian". Obviously there is a language that is most spoken in Nigeria but it isn't called "Nigerian".
Before I will see the video, I’m going to say Swahili, Zulu, Afrikaans (actually, very similar to Netherlandish, but many Africans speak it, and reckon it’s the national language in some African countries), Arabic (many Arabic-speaking people live in Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, etc), Spanish (Equatorial Guineans and Canarians speak Spanish), Somali, and Bono. I’ve never been in that continent, though have been in an African island.
In 1500...5 million people spoke English...mostly with heavy accents & full of dialects... In 2022...1 billion people perhaps...speak/understand English...but only 55 million of them live in little old England...a real 'lingua franca'...a means of communication between all countries of the world...not an imperialist imposition by the English...but a natural progression...as it is so easy to learn and so easy to 'murder' English - as we do here! - without it losing its meaning! We 'stole' many words from other languages over the centuries...a trade in language...that has proved to be so productive in making the world less parochial...a world divided less & less by language gaps...& united by a means of communicating more easily...a common language...even in Africa. Do you understand me?
The woman at 7.00 who said she never thought of learning an African language because she has never been there before and English is spoken everywhere so everyone should just learn English. 🙈🙈🙈 HELP.
3:13 The Dutch can bring hundreds of served heads and hands back with them from the Free Congo State but not a single term of endearment was borrowed from in the native languages that likely expressed some idea of their humanity. It's not that they ignore the barbarism they expect that sweet naivety of the African to never be worn down. They have chocolate hands to eat.
I think they are confused between speaking English and Dutch. Afrikaans is a language but they are saying South African or African meaning Afrikaans which is a kind of Dutch, because they are saying Afrikaans but translating it into English.
About 15% of my colleagues are African. Not one of them can name any of the British languages other than English, yet they live there. It seems not knowing about languages from other continents is quite normal.
Swahili, Lingala, Hausa wolf, English, French, German, sut Afrikaans, all the different dialects of Arabic, Zulu , Spanish, Berbers, Portugese……. , You want more ?
Tshwana, Siswati, Zulu, Xhosa, Hausa, Swahili, Shona, Bemba, Afrikaans, Sotho are the only ones I can name off the cuff. I can understand and speak a little Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Shona and know one or two words in Hausa. I think Swahili should be offered in the school curriculum as it is quite widely spoken and has a rich ancient culture.
Wow this is shocking. Africa is not a remote continent, but off shore Europe. I would understand if they wouldn't know about languages spoken in South America but Africa? I guess that behind the European languages, the most famous is Swahili. Afrikan dialect, Arabic, Amharic of Ethiopia....
i dont afree with those Gen Z girls, we dont demand them to know our languages and due colonoliztion their ofcial languages became european languages so yea, theres not really a point on learn some african language for tourism they learn the local language since they are born.
They dont offer to teach African languages here in Finland, but I dont think they in Africa offer anyone to learn Finnish also so, or dutch. Only the same what they push here too: france, english, spanish.. But in university one can study African languages here in Finland, its rare but I know one who studies the African history and languages.
Somali, Arabic (no, Arabic is not an African language but it’s spoken in a lot of North Africa, as well as french,mostly in western areas), Swahili, Berber, Afrikaans?, English, (however English is originally a European language, it is still widely spoken in some areas)
I think, for most Europeans learning African languages is just unnecessary. They don't have possibility to practice it, to use it in daily life. So it goes more to language geeks. When I worked with Eritrean guys, I learned few words and sentences, just to cheer them. Nigeria, Algeria, Sudan... English/French. I am personally have no intension to move to Africa. But overall, when I travel to a new country as a tourist, I try to learn some of language. And yeah, there is such thing as white supremacy and image of Africa/Africans as danger. Do we need incorporate learning African languages in school? As stand alone subject - I don't think so. But some basics in humanity/ethicists class - sure. I'm personally Israeli of Russian decent.
The fascinating part of Africa is the diverse cultures,the wildlife and the amount of languages.Sad that the continent still has countries which suffers from poverty,corruption, diseases and terrorism.
Really makes me think how powerful is the internet, given that I would easily answer that question, but not because my professional education, just because I like to learn in the internet.
I have been interested in Kiswahili, but I'm already learning French and Chinese, and want to learn Spanish and Arabic as well so not sure if I'll eventually get to it. I would definitely like to learn an African language at some point.
Yeah let's all blame white men and white supremacy for our own ignorance and for everything else we can come up with (directed only towards the women at 3:35 not the interviewer). Now as far as introducing african languages to western school system i don't know if we should. Learning an african language sounds interesting but how useful is it going to be for kids? How many of them will migrate or go for studies in Africa? A language that is not used is easily forgotten and there will be very very few people who will be using these languages often. I don't even know how important of a qualification it would be when u include it in your job resume since companies in the west don't have as many transactions with african companies which means that there is no need for it since african companies do speak english already. Then there is the issue of which of the 2000 languages will we make courses for and how do we choose it? And if we choose to include several languages the interest to learn an african language will be too spread out that it will be too impractical. To put it simply there is not enough demand for african languages to be included in the school system so they are not being taught. What would be awesome though is to include courses where u learn about african traditions, customs and african history. This would be really eye opening to a lot of people and it would make some of them interested in learning african languages themselves. Not to mention that learning generally things about the african countries is much easier to remember than learning a specific language.
I agree with your comment. We live in a globalised and competitive world where languages are a tool of communication. This is somehow sad, because languages, according to recent studies on the field of cognitive psychology, structure our thoughts, so that they make us think different and bring different perspectives of life. But again, we live in a neoliberal system and languages are a tool. I honestly think that, for practical reasons, just two languages will remain, English and Spanish. Arabic is too broken in dialects, Chinese is not studied beyond China, whereas in China English is massively studied, and French is losing economical influence and not learnt outside French speaking countries. In my case, I speak four European languages (I am Spanish). So I decided to learn Kiswahili. I am what is called a "language enthusiast" and I discovered that you can learn a language with 30min of study every day. Consistency in it is more important than time. I do it just because I like it and for self development, learning from other cultures. What I discovered, is that on the paper, Swahili is official and spoken across several East African countries, but nowadays ,the youth is hapilly mixing it with English, making what they call "Sheng". I also like Kinyarwanda and specially isiZulu with its phonetical tones and clicks, and for them is the same, Kinyarwanda is mixed with English and French and isiZulu with English. If it happens with these African "macro languages" imagine what is happening with the rest of languages in the continent. Besides, more and more African parents are starting to speak in English to their children. As a result, these languages are actually getting poorer every day. I do not blame Africans, it is the result of centuries of colonialism combined with globalism and economic competition. It is an unavoidable fact, almost all languages are on the way of disappearing. In my opinion, the important thing is to record and describe them, so that they will always be available in the future for anyone interested in them and for the history of our world cultures.
@Chidubem Emma-Ugwuoke Latin provides a key to the Romance languages, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese etc. Latin is the universal language of western civilization. Actually, Latin provides the blueprint for any language we may be learning later in life: German, Russian, Chinese, or any other one.
3:50 it has nothing to do with ignorance or white privielege. If we like it or not some countrys like france or england just colonised a big part of the world and forced them to use their language. So today a lot of countrys speak these languages. If you want to communicate with everyone around the world its just convenient to learn just one language that everyone understands. Also almost everyone around the world has at least english as a second language and a lot of persons also learn a third language. Why would you learn 1 of the 2000 african languages that you almost nowhere are able to use? To be fair a lot of people learn japanese for example, but that is only because manga and japanese games are so popular. For me personally language is just a tool to communicate. I'm not a linguist that is interested in more than that.
I speak my mother tongue, Somali, as well as amhara/oromia/tigrinya/arabic/Italian/french and English. Now I'm learning turkish with other language its Sunnah..good luck for me. but we have to focus on Africa. keep doing it.
Smart
You’re gonna be able to travel anywhere in Middle East/Mediterranean area and Horn of Africa with no language struggles :)
You definitely Ethiopian stop lying we Somalia we only have language we don’t speak your disgusting Amhara or ormo stop lying
@@TonyMontana-lm4jo 😂😂😂😂😂
How’s it sunnah? Did the Prophet (s) speak any tongue other than Arabic?
I expected everyone to say at least Swahili lol or if theyre slightly aware, Bantu.
Yes l speak african language's housa and Arabic.
Arabic mother tongue Arabic and housa and I sbeak English
I'm Kenyan and I speak Swahili,English and my mother tongue 😎🇰🇪
Malaya
Very disappointing that no one knows African languages. Especially the black people, disappointing.
Why do you have to be disappointed
Are you trolling
nice job....we Africans have to promote language, culture because we have many beautiful culture and languages....from Ethiopia (Amharic official language)
i think amharic is from arabia
@@LogitechXibanga Not exactly but it is considered a Semitic language, so it is related to Arabic, Hebrew, etc
@@thisisnotausernameXD alright, i know that jesus christ spoke that language if im ot mistaken
@@LogitechXibanga Just want to clarify that Amharic is a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia while Aramaic is also a Semitic language spoken around the time of Jesus. They are really easy to confuse because of the names, I can see how people get it wrong.
As a dutch Person from Zeeland, my answer before watching the video: berber🇲🇦 arabic🇪🇬venda🇿🇦South sohto🇿🇦Afrikaans🇿🇦Zulu(Zoeloe)🇿🇦xhosa🇿🇦somalian🇸🇴swahili🇰🇪
If youbput Afrikaan which is Dutch then you put English, French Portuguese into it too.
Afrikaan is not African language it is Dutch
@@lagosian123 no i speak dutch and the there to much difference between dutch and afrikaans also old dutch doesnt look like afrikaans. Of course it has europian (dutch) roots but the language really got its identity in africa. Portugeuse, and french are just portuguese and French
@@batavica4135 That language is not an African language. It has no tribal inclination of being African.
We speak pidgin English in Africa too and it doesn't make it our African tongue.
"Afrikaan" is concocted/invented boer adulterated dutch solely spoken by the dutch invaders. It is Not our native tongue .
@@batavica4135 By the way no African country recognised it except Apartheid South Africa who wanted to enforce it on our people. Just as they tried to divide our people and created mixed race as a separated group called Coloured when these coloured have their indigenous root to Africa mixed with slaves/ indentured workers the dutch brought from India, Malay and Europe .
We know our history!
@@lagosian123 i dont know what you think. But i am not gonna argue with you mate😂 😂😂
5:36 She said Somali, maybe you didn`t hear that.
From Somalia🇸🇴🇸🇴
Somali,Swahili,Amharic and Arabic That’s what I know.
How about Oromo, Afar,Harari and Argoba
Smart 👍🏻
Very interesting. When I lived in Holland, many Dutch friends assumed I spoke Afrikaans like every other African. They got confused when I pointed out that Afrikaans was actually related to Dutch.
yoo what as a dutchie I want to apologise on their behalf that's some nextlevel disinterest
The confusion stems from the fact that "Afrikaans" is Dutch for "African". Many Dutch people call Afrikaans "Zuid Afrikaans"
Naming European languages is easy, they are all named after the country.
This is far from being the case. The overwhelming majority of European languages do not have a country with a corresponding country. Just in the UK alone there is Gallic, Manx and Cornish, none have countries.
@@Andrew-mj5rf By being pedantic (btw 2 out of 3 of those cited languages are dead and now revived artificially by language hobbyists) you are missing the point of geography cueing remembrance of the language names, "lsle of Man, Cornwall", being the cues to remembering the lingo names, and them all being variants of Gaelic anyway.
So the OP stands (in non contrarian context)😉
Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kikongo etc.
@@akilimali_ndag Proving the point, thankyou.
This was sad to watch and I like the honesty with 2nd interview
keep doing what you're doing. I live in Turkey Istanbul and i want to try these public interviews next week too , Love it👍
You should. Goodluck with it and looking forward to watch their reactions too
Keep going
Swahili im from Tanzania
Rwanda 🇷🇼
Kinyarwanda
Europeans should at least learn Swahili or Arabic. South Africa has introduced Swahili in their curriculum, and I think most other African countries will too. So any Europeans visiting Africa for Business or to live will have to learn Swahili eventually
Wow 👏that's wonderful
South Africa 🇿🇦
Keep it up.
Swahili language is easy to speak
Good to hear that 👍
We just get you to learn English. Far easier for us
@@grahamt5924
It's time for Swahili now that's why it is the most spoken language in Africa and Alot of Europeans,Americans,Part of Middle East/Arabs are learning Swahili and teaching Swahili language in Schools.
Wow 👏 .Swahili is taking over many places.
East and Central Africa plus others in Southern Africa and so on .We are proud to speak 👏 our own African language.
Very sweet 😊 smooth 👌soft n Romantic language 😍❤💕
Jambo Rafiki
Habari Gani
Ahsante sana
Hakuna Matata
Kwaheri
Mambo!
Simba wa Afrika.
@@jamalsaid7475 Just as long as they learn English, that fine 🙂
Amazigh language in north Africa
ⵜⴰⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵜ ✌️
هو مش شمال افريقيا بيتكلموا عربي ؟ 🤣
So glad that you are educating the world
Easy Swahili
Apart from English, French and Chinese, I can also speak kiswahili, zulu, amharic, kikuyu, kamba, meru, embu, Somali.
awww... These guys are from the Netherlands and they dont even know of afrikaans? Or doesn't afrikaans count because its european?
Keep going bloody❤💋from 🇸🇴
3:50 what a dumb political phrase. If someome migrates to another country of course they need to learn the language. While if u don't migrate, why should someone learn these languages? Then u can learn a foreign language of course, but there are tousands of languages in the world, so just choose the one u want, it can, but does not have to be an african one.
I don't think some people realize that Arabic is also an African language and some schools teach it.
Arabic isn't an African language. It's spoken across North Africa because of the Arabisation of the region, not as a native language. Just as English isn't an African language but it's widely spoken here because of colonisation.
Afrikans must embrace Kiswahili language as their franca for communication and business.
She says Somali why you don’t want listen?!!!!
I'm from UK, before I watch here's the one's I can name: Swahili, Zulu, Afrikaans, that's it I should probably go do some research.
I would say those are the languages many British people will know of
Yes, Afrikaans
In the one Video nearly everyone Said south Africa but nobady named xhosa
In this Video
Again it's really interesting, especially last interview ladies very informative honest is talked the root cause of the situation. I don't blame them at all. we have to blamed ourselves as africans. Why we have to develop our countries sensor other languages. Chinese mandarin is one first to learn now western why because they defeated statues qua. thats lies the problem,. respect, you have to earn it first, that's what is it. Thanks.
No we should not blame ourselves. That is a very wrong way of looking at it. Did we cause White supremacist thinking? Did we keep them ignorant of our languages? We are not responsible for that.
They don't know that North African speak Arabic ??
No
@@grahamt5924 how you find my comment
@SALUT ALDE ! GRAND FAN ! I was agreeing with you, although I would say that Arabic is from Arabia, like English is from Europe.
@@grahamt5924 no what i want to say is my comment is one year ago, how do you find it
@SALUT ALDE ! GRAND FAN ! just saw your comment on avideo
Those two ladies have nailed it ignorance, superiority complex , not being taught anything about Africa
No country teaches about other countries. I grew up in Zimbabwe, and we learnt nothing about Europe or European history.
these ladies were incredibly ignorant and crinchworthy to watch.
Zulu from South Africa
Language aaf Somaliy 🤎🤎🇵🇸🇸🇴💪🏾💪🏾🤲🏾🤲🏾🤲🏾
I know the names of many African languages because I worked together with Africans and I always asked them what is their language 😊
Shona and Ndebele in Zim🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼🇿🇼
Beside European languages spoken in Africa, there are Niger-Congo langauges (such as Bantu languages, Swahili, Yoruba etc), Khosian languages (spoken in South-West Africa), Afro-Asiatic languages (like Arabic, Berber, Amharic, Coptic etc.), Nilo-Saharan languages (Chad-Uganda-Kenya) and Polenesian (yes!) languages in Madagascar. Weird but, Australian natives migrated to Madagascar even earlier than Africans themselves.
Noone can count all those thousands of native-African languages, even Africans themselves :)
By the way tn that grouping mentality, all the Europe just speaks Indo European languages, Finno-Urgic languages, Turkic Languages, Kartvelian languages and Basque itself alone :D
4:26 This woman is saying "the South African language. . . " and noted that "it differs from Dutch," so it is obvious she knows there is a language in South African [Afrikaans] which, while different, can at least be compared to Dutch. I'm thinking partial credit could be given.
Also, at 5:35, this girl said, "Somali." While it may have been a guess, it was accurate, but the interviewer didn't acknowledge that she got one.
I was just waiting for someone to come with with isiXhosa, with a click in it. :)
No, no partial credit. If you don't know the name of the country it doesn't count. It would be the same as giving partial credit for saying "Nigerian". Obviously there is a language that is most spoken in Nigeria but it isn't called "Nigerian".
Kenya 🇰🇪 swahili Nigeria 🇳🇬 heve 400 difreend language Igbo speak different endo different 😂😂😂😂🇬🇷 sorry for ma mistakes.
😂😂😂😂
good job
You're doing a great job keep up the good work
This is in the netherlands! I recognised it from the thumbnail of the video.
I recognized it from their accents and their use of the language at certain points.
🤣🤣😂...why would anyone learn a language they're NOT using to make money?!
Swahili, Arabic, Afrikaans, Amharic, Igbu, Amazigh, Zulu, Xhosa, and all the European colonial languages, that's all I know. Not much
Ndebele and Shona I know of because of family connections. Afrikaans n Zulu because of other connections.
I am from Indian... I am big fan ... I love this your RUclips channel...mam..
Before I will see the video, I’m going to say Swahili, Zulu, Afrikaans (actually, very similar to Netherlandish, but many Africans speak it, and reckon it’s the national language in some African countries), Arabic (many Arabic-speaking people live in Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, etc), Spanish (Equatorial Guineans and Canarians speak Spanish), Somali, and Bono. I’ve never been in that continent, though have been in an African island.
In 1500...5 million people spoke English...mostly with heavy accents & full of dialects...
In 2022...1 billion people perhaps...speak/understand English...but only 55 million of them live in little old England...a real 'lingua franca'...a means of communication between all countries of the world...not an imperialist imposition by the English...but a natural progression...as it is so easy to learn and so easy to 'murder' English - as we do here! - without it losing its meaning! We 'stole' many words from other languages over the centuries...a trade in language...that has proved to be so productive in making the world less parochial...a world divided less & less by language gaps...& united by a means of communicating more easily...a common language...even in Africa. Do you understand me?
The one who said kirundi is right is the language which spoken in burundi🇧🇮🇧🇮🇧🇮
That was shameful. I speak 3 languages fluent including English.
The woman at 7.00 who said she never thought of learning an African language because she has never been there before and English is spoken everywhere so everyone should just learn English. 🙈🙈🙈 HELP.
3:13 The Dutch can bring hundreds of served heads and hands back with them from the Free Congo State but not a single term of endearment was borrowed from in the native languages that likely expressed some idea of their humanity.
It's not that they ignore the barbarism they expect that sweet naivety of the African to never be worn down.
They have chocolate hands to eat.
I think they are confused between speaking English and Dutch. Afrikaans is a language but they are saying South African or African meaning Afrikaans which is a kind of Dutch, because they are saying Afrikaans but translating it into English.
I would have said Swahili, Twi and Igbo, and that would be my lot, but then I am your average ignorant Englishman.
About 15% of my colleagues are African. Not one of them can name any of the British languages other than English, yet they live there.
It seems not knowing about languages from other continents is quite normal.
Wow she is correct about Burundi as we Burundians we speak kirundi Swahili French and English
From somalia 🇸🇴
Swahili, Lingala, Hausa wolf, English, French, German, sut Afrikaans, all the different dialects of Arabic, Zulu , Spanish, Berbers, Portugese……. , You want more ?
Tshwana, Siswati, Zulu, Xhosa, Hausa, Swahili, Shona, Bemba, Afrikaans, Sotho are the only ones I can name off the cuff. I can understand and speak a little Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Shona and know one or two words in Hausa. I think Swahili should be offered in the school curriculum as it is quite widely spoken and has a rich ancient culture.
Wow! That's good! I'm Hausa from Nigeria 🇳🇬
Nina sema kiswahili kidogo sana
I'm hoping that's correct, it's been a long time since I used it.
Wow this is shocking. Africa is not a remote continent, but off shore Europe. I would understand if they wouldn't know about languages spoken in South America but Africa? I guess that behind the European languages, the most famous is Swahili. Afrikan dialect, Arabic, Amharic of Ethiopia....
i dont afree with those Gen Z girls, we dont demand them to know our languages and due colonoliztion their ofcial languages became european languages so yea, theres not really a point on learn some african language for tourism they learn the local language since they are born.
The internet will kill a lot of languages eventually. English seems to be even more powerful as the language of the planet now.
No ! They can’t, they want us to learn their own. That time is over.
They should actually be embarrassed.
She said somali which is a language
Does English count?
Tui, xhosa and swhalleli
Who cares if they know it or not?
Lozi language from zambia
4:13 Now these 2 kids are woke
Whaaat? South African? Really?
They dont offer to teach African languages here in Finland, but I dont think they in Africa offer anyone to learn Finnish also so, or dutch. Only the same what they push here too: france, english, spanish.. But in university one can study African languages here in Finland, its rare but I know one who studies the African history and languages.
ofcourse, do they really think people in China learn an African language in school? Or Peru, or India? Ofcourse not.
Helo mam
Somali, Arabic (no, Arabic is not an African language but it’s spoken in a lot of North Africa, as well as french,mostly in western areas), Swahili, Berber, Afrikaans?, English, (however English is originally a European language, it is still widely spoken in some areas)
Liked before I watched the video, commented before I watched also, that's how much I love you girls. Keep it up! 👍
Thank you so much Adeyemi☺️☺️
I think, for most Europeans learning African languages is just unnecessary. They don't have possibility to practice it, to use it in daily life. So it goes more to language geeks.
When I worked with Eritrean guys, I learned few words and sentences, just to cheer them. Nigeria, Algeria, Sudan... English/French. I am personally have no intension to move to Africa. But overall, when I travel to a new country as a tourist, I try to learn some of language.
And yeah, there is such thing as white supremacy and image of Africa/Africans as danger.
Do we need incorporate learning African languages in school? As stand alone subject - I don't think so. But some basics in humanity/ethicists class - sure.
I'm personally Israeli of Russian decent.
The fascinating part of Africa is the diverse cultures,the wildlife and the amount of languages.Sad that the continent still has countries which suffers from poverty,corruption, diseases and terrorism.
Somali 🇸🇴
Yoruba is a language in Kongo, if i remember correctly.
And Suwahili.
From somali🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴
This is Not a surprise
Really makes me think how powerful is the internet, given that I would easily answer that question, but not because my professional education, just because I like to learn in the internet.
I have been interested in Kiswahili, but I'm already learning French and Chinese, and want to learn Spanish and Arabic as well so not sure if I'll eventually get to it. I would definitely like to learn an African language at some point.
Mandinka
That’s Senegambia for sure!
@@RealJohnO gambia, senigal, mali, guinea conakry, guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso, Laberia, Ivor coast and Sierra Leone
@@gambia4616 make it official
Yeah really start learning the language name is NKO'O
😂😂shuuuu I mean in Europe was Africa cut out of their maps like it's war territory
I’m not from Africa but I would say Swahili an’an na wey a’na na wey , Zumba Zumba Zumba pula
4:30. She's correct abt Afrikaans.
🇪🇷Eritrea is the only African country with its own alphabet (Tigrinya/Geez language). It's also the world's oldest living alphabet.
No
It's not an alphabet 🤦♂️
It's an Abugida and Ethiopia also use it.
No Ethiopia also have
You forgot Amharic. Same family as Geez and Tigrinya. Eritrea and Ethiopia love each other. Don't be alone!
ግዕዝ ወይም አጋዚያን አማራ መሆኑን አያዉቅም ግዕዝ የጥንት ቋንቋ መግባቢያ ነበር ።ግዕዝ ተናጋሪ የነበሩ አጋዚያን አማራ ሆነዋል።የቤተ ክርስቲያን ቋንቋ ብቻ እንዲሆን ተደርጓል በአፄ ቴወድሮስ ዘመነ መንግስት
Yes. Arabic. 😂😂😂
Please add subtitle
I am from India
Yeah let's all blame white men and white supremacy for our own ignorance and for everything else we can come up with (directed only towards the women at 3:35 not the interviewer).
Now as far as introducing african languages to western school system i don't know if we should. Learning an african language sounds interesting but how useful is it going to be for kids? How many of them will migrate or go for studies in Africa? A language that is not used is easily forgotten and there will be very very few people who will be using these languages often. I don't even know how important of a qualification it would be when u include it in your job resume since companies in the west don't have as many transactions with african companies which means that there is no need for it since african companies do speak english already. Then there is the issue of which of the 2000 languages will we make courses for and how do we choose it? And if we choose to include several languages the interest to learn an african language will be too spread out that it will be too impractical. To put it simply there is not enough demand for african languages to be included in the school system so they are not being taught.
What would be awesome though is to include courses where u learn about african traditions, customs and african history. This would be really eye opening to a lot of people and it would make some of them interested in learning african languages themselves. Not to mention that learning generally things about the african countries is much easier to remember than learning a specific language.
I agree with your comment. We live in a globalised and competitive world where languages are a tool of communication. This is somehow sad, because languages, according to recent studies on the field of cognitive psychology, structure our thoughts, so that they make us think different and bring different perspectives of life. But again, we live in a neoliberal system and languages are a tool. I honestly think that, for practical reasons, just two languages will remain, English and Spanish. Arabic is too broken in dialects, Chinese is not studied beyond China, whereas in China English is massively studied, and French is losing economical influence and not learnt outside French speaking countries.
In my case, I speak four European languages (I am Spanish). So I decided to learn Kiswahili. I am what is called a "language enthusiast" and I discovered that you can learn a language with 30min of study every day. Consistency in it is more important than time. I do it just because I like it and for self development, learning from other cultures. What I discovered, is that on the paper, Swahili is official and spoken across several East African countries, but nowadays ,the youth is hapilly mixing it with English, making what they call "Sheng". I also like Kinyarwanda and specially isiZulu with its phonetical tones and clicks, and for them is the same, Kinyarwanda is mixed with English and French and isiZulu with English. If it happens with these African "macro languages" imagine what is happening with the rest of languages in the continent. Besides, more and more African parents are starting to speak in English to their children. As a result, these languages are actually getting poorer every day. I do not blame Africans, it is the result of centuries of colonialism combined with globalism and economic competition. It is an unavoidable fact, almost all languages are on the way of disappearing. In my opinion, the important thing is to record and describe them, so that they will always be available in the future for anyone interested in them and for the history of our world cultures.
Yeah. I agree
Actually, how useful is learning Latin? Yet many people do.
But I still agree
@Chidubem Emma-Ugwuoke Latin provides a key to the Romance languages, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese etc. Latin is the universal language of western civilization. Actually, Latin provides the blueprint for any language we may be learning later in life: German, Russian, Chinese, or any other one.
The white lady in 3:37,,so cute,tall and brillant😍
Arabic, English, Dutch.....those are the easy choices.
3:50 it has nothing to do with ignorance or white privielege. If we like it or not some countrys like france or england just colonised a big part of the world and forced them to use their language. So today a lot of countrys speak these languages. If you want to communicate with everyone around the world its just convenient to learn just one language that everyone understands. Also almost everyone around the world has at least english as a second language and a lot of persons also learn a third language. Why would you learn 1 of the 2000 african languages that you almost nowhere are able to use? To be fair a lot of people learn japanese for example, but that is only because manga and japanese games are so popular. For me personally language is just a tool to communicate. I'm not a linguist that is interested in more than that.
More like 3000 languages
Balochi language
What country is that from please?
@@AyoandEbunEntertainment balochistan