@@RonaldMcPaul nah, he isn't. He has good accent and puts a lot of effort into his language learning - true and I applaud it. how long have you been learning Xhosa, btw.?
There's much Arabic influence in Swahili, in fact the word Swahili itself even comes from Arabic. As a Turk whose language is full of Arabic loanwords, I can catch them here and there. "Merhaba" is one of our greetings too. Some evident English influence can also be seen. That area was under British control for years, so that's a given. An Interesting thing. The question word for asking the other's name in Swahili is "who" and not "what", which is the same with Indonesian. In Indonesian, they also ask your address with the word "where". It's sometimes seen in Turkish too. For the next trial you may try these two lanuages I mentioned. Turkish or Indonesian (Malay is also almost the same as Indonesian, you may check that out as well)
First time hearing Swahili. Seems to be purely phonetic without much exceptions, and phonology sounds very much like our languages/dialects in the Philippines. I have even found a word than links us. 'Salama' is probably related to our 'salamat' which is thank you. As you have said, it might have from Arabic. It would be fun if you do Tagalog or any other Philippine languages. There are many words you might recognize due to us having loanwords from Spanish as well as English. Edit: I find it ironic that a guy from Sicily who had also lived in Japan for years does not like samaki (fish) 😂
Yes most Swahili speakers trill their Rs. written Swahili is pretty easy to read, since switching to the Latin script in the 1950s. There's some influence from Arabic Persian and Hindi. Also Portuguese German and English, sabuni, shule, kompyuta. The only thing that makes Swahili complicated is the angulation and 16 grammatical genders/classes but no masculine and feminine.
I am so happy you are doing this language in particular. I’m not very good at it yet myself, but I’ve been studying it at home whenever I can for two years. You sound great in your pronunciation. Now I’m going to add Italiano too.
As a language learner I was introduce to this language by my kenian friend. I love Swahili, you pronounce the way it is written and is really fun to learn.
5:52 yes there are semitic influences there. In Maltese "aħbar", "sebħ", "sliem" and "merħba" mean the same thing as he says there ("news", "morning", "peace", "welcome/agreeable" respectively)
@@themap6154 He did Maltese before however the example video he chose wasn't that good and representative in my opinion as she was using a lot of informal "Gen Z slang". I would offer to help put together a video that would highlight better, both the differences and the similarities to Sicilian/Italian, however I both don't know how to contact him and think that it would probably be inappropriate to just contact him out of the blue as a random viewer on youtube.
Kiswahili is one of the nicest languages to learn. It is still worth doing so - it's lingua franca across many African countries and native to a few. If you want to exercise with singing here is a popular song that uses basic expressions: ruclips.net/video/kY0VucZrgWA/видео.html&ab_channel=gabbygladheart It's easy to pronounce but it introduces the concept of groups and it has lots of prefixes, not present in European languages.
I'm a Kenyan who's a huge fan of your work due to my immense interest in world history especially the Roman Empire. To answer your question about the relationship between Swahili and Arabic, yes, Arabic is deeply tied to Swahili due to colonization of East Africa by the Omani Arabs. Swahili emerged as a combination of Arabic and Bantu language to facilitate the coastal trade between the East Africans and the Omani Arabs which is why a lot of Arabic words are basically the same or close in meaning to the Swahili such as chai which is tea in both languages. FUN FACT: Swahili is Swahil in Arabic meaning coasts i.e East African Coast. Kazi Nzuri Metatronus Pedanticus Maximus.
6:07 Yes "salama" must be of Arabic origin. I also heard "kitaba" earlier in this video which is "book" in Arabic too. I have to admit that I choked on my coffee when he pronounced peace, though.
Swahili has the most beautiful grammar of any language I've studied - it's simultaneously really regular and also really elegantly communicates a lot of information with agglutinating affixes (mostly prefixes) - for instance, you conjugate verbs for both subject and object meaning you can get really compact sentences, but the way you form the verbs is straightforward like Japanese and so it's not hard to start communicating.
Knowing even the slight bit of Arabic I do, I still clearly recognised a few words, like salama as you pointed out, but also marahabaa and samaki. I do also know that they use kitabu for book, which also has the fantastic plural form vitabu.
Was anyone else's only real exposure to this language in Star Trek? 😅Assuming that episode was accurate to the language of course, I've never looked into it.
I’d love to see your reaction to interlingua, it’s an artificial language created that supposed to be easily understood by speakers of Romance languages. I’m fluent in Spanish and can understand it very easily, but I’d love to see if it’s as easy for an Italian/French speaker. @Orlophe makes lots of videos speaking interlingua
Interesting, I married a Kenyan girl (British heritage) who only spoke Swahili in her early years. Around her family they always speak a Swahili/English patois which took me years to figure out lol
Link to the tutorials
ruclips.net/video/o5UyeO2cAtI/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/5FTbYye44lA/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/yeP1AO_kWKA/видео.html
omg i never thought youd do swahili...im a native speaker and your pronunciations were spot on. kazi nzuri. good job
Thanks! I really enjoyed learning some Swahili.
Swahili is a cool language
You should try learning Xhosa, it sounds like it'd be fun to watch you struggle with the clicks :D
Xhosa is handful. I'd compromise on Zulu - also have clicks, but not that many
@marikothecheetah9342 Metatron is a god, he can learn all 148 distinct clicks EZ
@@RonaldMcPaul nah, he isn't. He has good accent and puts a lot of effort into his language learning - true and I applaud it. how long have you been learning Xhosa, btw.?
There's much Arabic influence in Swahili, in fact the word Swahili itself even comes from Arabic. As a Turk whose language is full of Arabic loanwords, I can catch them here and there. "Merhaba" is one of our greetings too. Some evident English influence can also be seen. That area was under British control for years, so that's a given. An Interesting thing. The question word for asking the other's name in Swahili is "who" and not "what", which is the same with Indonesian. In Indonesian, they also ask your address with the word "where". It's sometimes seen in Turkish too.
For the next trial you may try these two lanuages I mentioned. Turkish or Indonesian (Malay is also almost the same as Indonesian, you may check that out as well)
The Swahili States were Muslim states. It's relatively recently that the Swahili language is spoken by more non-Muslims than Muslims.
7:30 this guy makes me want to learn swahili he is entertaining
First time hearing Swahili. Seems to be purely phonetic without much exceptions, and phonology sounds very much like our languages/dialects in the Philippines. I have even found a word than links us. 'Salama' is probably related to our 'salamat' which is thank you. As you have said, it might have from Arabic.
It would be fun if you do Tagalog or any other Philippine languages. There are many words you might recognize due to us having loanwords from Spanish as well as English.
Edit: I find it ironic that a guy from Sicily who had also lived in Japan for years does not like samaki (fish) 😂
I had the same impression. One difference though is some consonants in Swahili seem to be breathy, like t and k. Tagalog doesn't do that
@@drezhb Yeah, I've noticed that too. Swahili also has /f/, /v/, and /z/, which many Filipinos struggle with when speaking in English
Yes most Swahili speakers trill their Rs. written Swahili is pretty easy to read, since switching to the Latin script in the 1950s. There's some influence from Arabic Persian and Hindi. Also Portuguese German and English, sabuni, shule, kompyuta. The only thing that makes Swahili complicated is the angulation and 16 grammatical genders/classes but no masculine and feminine.
16 grammatical genders? what does that look like?
but really its only 8 because when people say 16 every other one is just the plural of the one before so in my opinion it's misleading to say 16
This was a lot of fun. Good teachers and the phonology is very forgiving.
Please do Finnish 😊
That's a fun language!
You can try Yoruba. I uses tones! Swahili is a Lingua Franca used in that region of Africa, so it has influences from many other languages.
I notice they use Arab word kitab كتاب
@@Nehauonlots of Arabic words
I am so happy you are doing this language in particular. I’m not very good at it yet myself, but I’ve been studying it at home whenever I can for two years. You sound great in your pronunciation. Now I’m going to add Italiano too.
As a language learner I was introduce to this language by my kenian friend. I love Swahili, you pronounce the way it is written and is really fun to learn.
5:52 yes there are semitic influences there. In Maltese "aħbar", "sebħ", "sliem" and "merħba" mean the same thing as he says there ("news", "morning", "peace", "welcome/agreeable" respectively)
It would be cool to see him to do this with Maltese as well as he is Sicilian and Maltese developed from Siculo-Arabic from Sicily
He's covered Maltese before.
@@themap6154 He did Maltese before however the example video he chose wasn't that good and representative in my opinion as she was using a lot of informal "Gen Z slang". I would offer to help put together a video that would highlight better, both the differences and the similarities to Sicilian/Italian, however I both don't know how to contact him and think that it would probably be inappropriate to just contact him out of the blue as a random viewer on youtube.
the book simplified swahili is so good it tells everthing very clearly
Please try Danish
Grød grød
Kiswahili is one of the nicest languages to learn. It is still worth doing so - it's lingua franca across many African countries and native to a few.
If you want to exercise with singing here is a popular song that uses basic expressions: ruclips.net/video/kY0VucZrgWA/видео.html&ab_channel=gabbygladheart
It's easy to pronounce but it introduces the concept of groups and it has lots of prefixes, not present in European languages.
I'm a Kenyan who's a huge fan of your work due to my immense interest in world history especially the Roman Empire.
To answer your question about the relationship between Swahili and Arabic, yes, Arabic is deeply tied to Swahili due to colonization of East Africa by the Omani Arabs. Swahili emerged as a combination of Arabic and Bantu language to facilitate the coastal trade between the East Africans and the Omani Arabs which is why a lot of Arabic words are basically the same or close in meaning to the Swahili such as chai which is tea in both languages.
FUN FACT: Swahili is Swahil in Arabic meaning coasts i.e East African Coast.
Kazi Nzuri Metatronus Pedanticus Maximus.
Whoa you're awesome, 😎 also that's very interesting.
@@RonaldMcPaul Thank you.
That was fun. Thanks, Megatron
6:07 Yes "salama" must be of Arabic origin. I also heard "kitaba" earlier in this video which is "book" in Arabic too. I have to admit that I choked on my coffee when he pronounced peace, though.
I'd love to see you try Finnish. Swahili sounds pretty cool, too. You seem to be doing well at it.
Sounds nice
Swahili has the most beautiful grammar of any language I've studied - it's simultaneously really regular and also really elegantly communicates a lot of information with agglutinating affixes (mostly prefixes) - for instance, you conjugate verbs for both subject and object meaning you can get really compact sentences, but the way you form the verbs is straightforward like Japanese and so it's not hard to start communicating.
You should do a Slavic language!
The teacher seems so full of joy and enthusiasm, really nice. 😊
Seems strange that they would borrow a word for “family;” I wonder how that happened?
What about English, why did they borrow the Latin word for "family"?
Do czech next, youll have a good time with that one
I couldn't even learn how to pronounce "thank you" when I was in Prague.🙁
Knowing even the slight bit of Arabic I do, I still clearly recognised a few words, like salama as you pointed out, but also marahabaa and samaki. I do also know that they use kitabu for book, which also has the fantastic plural form vitabu.
Very cool video i would want to learn swahili since its my moms language
What if the news isn't good ? 😂
For your next video, how about a trip to the other side of the Indo-European language family? Sanskrit or Farsi perhaps
Was anyone else's only real exposure to this language in Star Trek? 😅Assuming that episode was accurate to the language of course, I've never looked into it.
Which episode was that?
Learn Zulu so you can tell us what they're singing in The Circle of Life from The Lion King
[Civ 4 intro song intensities]
I’d love to see your reaction to interlingua, it’s an artificial language created that supposed to be easily understood by speakers of Romance languages. I’m fluent in Spanish and can understand it very easily, but I’d love to see if it’s as easy for an Italian/French speaker. @Orlophe makes lots of videos speaking interlingua
Ok so arabic armenian and swahili are definitly my targeted languagues. ان شاء الله I'll live long enough...
ZULU LANGUAGE NEXT
Most pod101 videos teach a very formal variant of the language that is not used by natives normally.
Interesting, I married a Kenyan girl (British heritage) who only spoke Swahili in her early years. Around her family they always speak a Swahili/English patois which took me years to figure out lol
Nants igonyama bagathi baba
REACT to Liga Romanica.
Hi Metatron, heve you ever heard of bengali?
I Double Dog Dare You To Try Welsh
20:18 **made in africa**
Please. Would you consider Arabic?
do georgian
This is day 8 of commenting on every new video until he does Cajun French and Louisiana Creole
Metatron you need to try arabic ❤️🩹