African roots in Latin America: Palenque (Colombia) | Armin Schwegler | TEDxUCIrvine
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- This talk illustrates how linguistics and population geneticists have recently managed to reconstruct the precise African roots of descendants of African slaves that were transshipped some 400 years ago from Black Africa to Latin America. The talk focuses on Palenque (Colombia), where special African traditions and an unusual creole language have been preserved to this day.
Professor Schwegler’s research emphasizes the study of Latin America from a linguistic, social, and historical perspective. For three decades, this has led him to explore in depth the precise African origins of Hispanic communities whose roots are found in the transatlantic slave trade. Using population genetics (DNA) research to complement humanistic investigations, his work shows that “lost history” can indeed be reconstructed with precision. To that end, he has traveled widely and afar, and published several books and over 60 research articles
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
I am congolese of the Mukongo ethnicity, i need to go there to meet my long lost cousins in Colombia
I am also Mukongo and I am going next year, I feel so excited already
I'll be joining u guys ba kongolais ya mayombe
Me too!! (Half)
You will pleasantly surprised with how much people of the Caribbean coast of Colombia love Congolese music. Soukous music rocks!
YOU NEED TO, WE OWE YOU A LOT OF OUR CULTURE, NOT ONLY THE PALENQUEROS AND THE AFROCOLOMBIAN PEOPLE, BUT THE COLOMBIAN PEOPLE , IN GENERAL, TOO. WE OWE THE AFRICAN CULTURE AT LEAST 10 RHYTHMS AND DANCES, FOOD, CLOTHES, HISTORIES AND MORE.
This video made me cry tears of joy for those people. 🙌🏾
I was born in the Caribbean and I've studied my family's history for over a decade. I've successfully traced my mother's maternal line to the early 1860s but couldn't find anything earlier than that. When the paper trail ran cold, I turned to DNA.
Through DNA, I found a distant cousin from Togo. We spoke for 4 hours where he told me that his people migrated to the coastal region of Togo in the 1500s.
His family always spoke about a distant ancestor that disappeared from the family & they never heard from her again. She was taken away in the 1800s. He told me that hearing my voice gave him reassurance that she survived the middle passage and her legacy lived on through me. I cried so hard that day because I was happy to reconnect with my long-lost family member.
My dream is to meet him and walk the path my ancestors walked. I just have to make it there one day. ❤
Alison Ryce come on over sister.
Wow Alison, what a story. Hope you find what you looking for. I feel for u man..
I'm from Cameroon. Going back there helps me to reconnect with my roots and to start my healing process. I strongly hope the same for you too. Thanks for sharing your wonderful story. Keep it up!
I pray that you do. BEAUTIFUL story.❤
This is honestly soo beautiful I am also wanting to trace back my heritage I am from Nigerian (the Yoruba tribe) I love my tribe but they did a lot of travelling. They also mixed a lot with white people and other tribes. I am am also likely to come from Togo 🇹🇬/ Benin 🇧🇯 because many west Africans have some sort of DNA tracing back to those two countries . The problem is our history is really whitewash. Can u give me any tips on researching my history? 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
I’m Mulari, we speak Lari which is broken Kikongo mainly in southern Brazzaville, Congo. I would love to visit Colombia and help out in Palenque ! We need to be united and stand strong, much love from London❤️
Right on family
Sema Kimbidima we are the Israelites that were scattered throughout the earth. Even the native Americans are our long lost brothers who migrated here thousands of years ago
Read Deuteronomy 28:15-68
Joel 3
Fasting Is Life Jesus loves you and died for you on the cross ✝️ you don’t need to believe in the Old Testatment laws. Just believe and your seat in heaven will be for sure. God bless
Sema Kimbidima Jesus is Lucifer 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
You were taught a lie. The messiah was not a Greek. Jesus is Zeus’s name.
Christianity is Satan’s religion. What did the messiah say in Matthew 24??
“Many shall come in my name saying I am Christ (Christian) and shall deceive many” 🤔🤷🏾♂️
Sema Kimbidima nobody goes to heaven, the kingdom will be right here in earth.
As a Congolese who grew up in Europe, I am planning to go to Palenque next spring to meet my people. I feel so emotional after watching this video and even more excited about my trip. thank you so much.
You will be surprised with how much we Colombian Caribbeans love Congolese music, we listen and dance to soukous since decades. We love it!
As now i decidede my brother. I want to Travels to Palengue
Beautiful
@AnadaBajan Yout I totally agree! Most of my DNA is split between Congo & Nigeria - so these are my people as well!
@AnadaBajan Yout Aww, regardless - I love all my African cousins, no matter where they are in the world!
Diaspora Africans are all over the world, and it's sad that so much has been stolen from us. We must learn from each other. Love the video.
WE WILL REGAIN DOUBLE OUR LOST. IT HAS BEEN PROMISED TO US
@@randyeduo As long as we fulfill OUR side of the deal. Our enslavement was due to our breaking of that deal.
...we have been "largely" Christianized so we reject our original culture and religion. that rejection is why many don't understand that Latin Americans and African Americans are West African cousins. The only White Spanish people were in Spain. the rest of the Spanish population have African Roots...
@@aicirtapsmmas82 yes I like how u two speaking in codes 🔥🔥
@@Monke_boi13 NO code here. Straight real talk. Time to stop blaming and take resposibility. The Descendants of Slaves had a God long before the transatlantic trade. They wanted to be like the rest of the world instead of His "Peculiar Treasure ". Hence why we pay.
I had tears in my eyes listening to the talk. I’m from Ghana in Africa and the slaves were shipped from the holding castles out of Africa from Ghana too. I salute their bravery and steadfastness and will endeavour to visit next time I’m in Colombia. Thanks for sharing
Naana Mora
It makes me almost tear up hearing how people on the continent miss us too. I am in the USA and I look forward to traveling to W. Africa to see where my ancestors come from.
Naana l also come from GHANA living in Spain, many of us did not know that slavery was very very disaster and catastrophe for we Áfricans image. Ohhh
Naana Mora you need to study the Gullah Geechee in South Carolina and Georgia in the U.S.A.
They werent slaves they were enslaved
Don’t cry man, your ancestors sell your people to white man. White man was not about to capture people in the African shores. No slavery took place in East Africa why in the west Africa. First correct your dark history and restore your dignity. Recollect the history of slavery. We don’t have any books or pieces of notes in Africa how this people happen.
Build museums and libraries and parks to memorize the dark history of slavery. Raise the subject to national level. Send research teams to follow where these Africans ended. Visit everywhere they live in the Americas. Even visit to tiny villages and collect their stories and compile books, photographs and artifacts. Bring back some of those people back to their homeland.
Twelve million people! Good Lord! Those numbers brought me to tears. What an amazing job, Mr Schwegler. As a Colombian African descendent i am, I thank you! Oh my beloved country, one day I will be back to you once and for all
Are afro colombians mostly in cartagena,cali,barraquilla or choco?
@@carlosss891 yes, in the Caribbean and Pacific Coast of Colombia mainly.
We could literally be cousins, my father is Kikongo from Angola so amazing and wonderful 💖💖
I have never heard of an African Columbian before now. I look at you and maybe your cousin here and the women in the video and I really think I need an African Columbian woman in my life now😉😍😍😍
@@Berlinquilla you are a beautiful people i feel drawn to you all
I am a African-American from America I love all my brothers and sisters all over the world from the African diaspora it's time for us to wake up and reunite and understand the power that we have we were split up and talk other languages on purpose they stole our language and made us learn other languages purposely to keep us separate we are the majority on this Earth not the minority that's more of us everyone from the African diaspora we need to wake up and reunite and understand the power that we got peace love to all of my African brothers and sisters all over the world
Those people are so beautiful, I'm glad they embrace their culture and are no longer ashamed!
@dandilyonz cassandra I thought the man said they stopped speaking their own language for a while because of ridicule from the native Columbians?
@@erichardric4795 right he said when he was there half of the population stopped speaking their language.
My Gosh African people.....our story is the greatest
and oldest
@@toddmaek5436 from the beginning . We are hard ,like the hardest weeds you can ever get rid of. We suffer. But survive . Truth.
@@toddmaek5436 and the ONLY Story
We are such a resilient people to have survived a terrible history of slavery and produce cultures that is admired and copied around the world. I notice the dances the Palenqero women were doing shows how much they influenced the larger Latin American music and culture
And most Resilient
Siyabonga Babe Schwegler ngemsebenti lomuhle loncomekako. I am moved, beyond words. Those people are our brothers and sisters.
Proud Afro-Colombian
I never knew that Columbians knew, let alone respected that African Heritage!
Love you Sis. 👑💝
@@kamalruffin258 we love our African roots, Africa is in everything within our culture. We also love Congolese music, soukous is very popular in the Caribbean coast of Colombia.
Gorgeous too!!!
Even thou you say afro Colombian in my heart your Colombian first and I know you would stand with me if we were in a room with African Americans for instance.
BTW this becomes OUR history and should be taught in school
I am Congolese, this is a great video. This profesor has a great heart. Our people were forced at gun point onto ships to the unknown , they were traumatized, killed , intimidated forced into isolation but now they can chose to travel back home .
Yet many of the descendants of the enslavers want us to believe that all of our ancestors sold us into slavery! I side eye them everytime! 😒
This is wonderful. I'm West African American. I can here tone variations in languages, especially African languages. They are definitely speaking a variation of Bantu languages, especially from Kongo regions. I grew up listening to Soukous, Ndombolo, & Rumba. I can hear the similarity in languages. Peace be unto to us all!
This was INCREDIBLE! My parents are Colombian and I am in constant awe of the deep richness of Colombian history and culture every single time I look into it! Professor Schwegler is an incredible human being!
I met Professor Schwegler some years ago, and let me tell you that he is not just a great scholar but also a great person.
I can believe it,he has a lot of passion.
Watching and listening to this, I am in tears as a Kongo native...no words to express the pain my people went through for so long to the point we have been stolen our history & identity. Truth is coming out irreversibly...
The Most High - said - your identity will soon be revealed, all will be astounded. 400+ years - freedom will ring for all his people across the 🌎.
Jo Ann Lewis tell it sis
All praises
Das Right
EARS TO HEAR is this verse I dropped look for this comment that says Lmfaoooo OWWW it’s the very last comment but DEFINITELY look for this comment by ONEKBABY Shalom QUEEN
Where did you get that quote. Your identity will soon be revealed?
Anywhere our people were they struggled against the unjust captivity of slavery in the Americas. Always wanted to know about the people of colour in Central and South America and finally felt please to see this revelation which in my mind is the beginning of a connection with mixed spirits (involving the various ethnicity) of my ancestors to reunite with the motherland Africa.
Thanks for the video and great job involved in making the connections. One love from Jamaica💖.
This is so fascinating, this should be taught in all history classrooms.
Agreed
As a Kongolese person I'm proud of my people we never give up!!
Unusual people? How about unique people instead!
He also refers to them as “different and special “ He is very respectful of these people
Exactly!!!
Antonio Perales del Hierro 😂🤣🤣😂
after this whole video that's what stood out to you? he has used many many words to show respect and love to them and to judge him by one word is not fair
@@ignatiusmaziofa2393 History has made many people severe to White people's narrativa. Overall this Is a decente White man.
Quite emotional for me from start to finish: the stigma of slavery, the stigma of not being able to tell where you came from and at last this humanely noble Professor was able to help reconstruct that lost history. Many thanks also to Nasar Pour the Iranian Geneticist, who also help to do the DNA test in tracing the origins of the Palenqueros from Africa. I really look forward to visiting these people one day soon!
OH WOW yes!!!DNA yesssss WOW a study it would be!!!
Hay un lugar en el cielo para este gran científico que también tiene un gran corazón. Como colombiana me conmueve hasta la raíz. Gracias.
There's a place in heaven for this great scientist who also has a big heart. As a colombian it moves me to the bone. Thank you.
They are definitely Bantu speakers in my Chewa/ Nyanja language snake is njoka ,Cattle - n'gombe.Thanks professor Schwegler for giving the Palenque people their pride and such a priceless history you are a hero
Wow, thats wonderful to here.l am Shona(Zimbabwe) and snake is nyoka and cattle is mombe or n'ombe. l think we should have an Inter Bantu Language
In almost all Bantu languages south of the Sahara, the words for snake : Nyoka, njoka, nioka are the same. This applies also to the word for Human: Mtu, umuntu, Bantu etc. Ngombe for cow is also found in many Bantu languages. It’s good that many countries in this region have now started teaching Swahili in schools. In 20 years from now, Africans south of the Sahara will be communicating in Swahili language with each other. A huge step towards decolonization of the mind!
Let me guess, you don't live south of the Sahara, or you would know that we like to communicate in all the African languages. Kiswahili is the national language in my country, but I don't expect South Sudanese to speak Kiswahili. Why would you want to do the white thing all over again and force people to speak one language? Africans have always been multi-lingual and will continue to do so until the end of time....
Am a Bantu of kikuyu tribe in Kenya and we snake nyoka cow ng'ombe a person Mundu
I feel so connected to this people oh I've cried my all 😭😭
This is so interesting. I'm from the Pacific, Samoa and snake in our language is gata (pronounced Ng), while people is Tagata...
Yes most Bantu languages but especially the Bakongos because they suffered from slavery a lot. Kongo Central in DR Congo was where most slaves were taken from as that was the poor people of the Kongo kingdom.
I'm afro Colombian and I've met many Bantu tribes and even those of the same ethnic group in Angola and they've told me especially Kongo Central in DR Congo.
You others may speak Bantu languages but you're not the same as the Bakongo!
Not in South Africa they not.
Good job. But mostly am happy to see these people kept their culture & language
Yesss
Carolynska S did you watch the video before commenting? These people are in Colombia 🇨🇴!
Wasn't going to watch this when I saw it but I'm grateful I left it playing. This is so touching!
I commend the speaker for taking time to research and preserve the history. Unfortunately, if the US is a model, if any wealth is found anywhere near where those people are, they will be killed, their villages will be destroyed, the Colombian government would pass laws that expropriate the property and those people will not be given a penny.
Why are these people so incapable of defending themselves?
@@henryjohnson280 you are missing the point.
I thought of this immediately after listening to this video for the first time. In fact, I said it is perhaps the beginning of the end of their 'happy hide out'. Prayers for Palenque that there is nothing underneath the land. For the first time, I have read a story from Colombia that has no narcotrafficking...
Idk there are tribes everywhere
But they do get mistreated. So u never know
What strange things do you English speakers say, you are not Colombian and you would not understand what San Basilio palenque means for Colombia, we are proud of San Basilio de palenque.
Brilliant expoé. I am from the republic of Congo, leaving now in USA. I speak Kikongo and i can see similarities between Palinke language words and Kikongo's : a word like ñoka in Palinké which is nioka meaning serpent. And i could the word Loango in their song which was a kingdom in southern Congo. Even their drum beat is the same as that of the kongo people.
Thank you very for your research and support for this tribe. I very much want to get in touch with them.
Africa is connected in a manner that can never be understood if not studied. In South Africa a Snake is "Nyoka" in the Zulu language.
And in Swahili it's the same, nyoka. Which means that as Africans we are more connected than we are able to understand.
In my first language(mothertoungue) it's called njoka...am a merian from kenya
All Bantu languages
The similarity is astounding. I'm from the Bangante ppl of Western province of Cameroon and snake in our language is called "Nyo"
Amazing....am learning something great...am joining the dots...amazing!!!
I was privileged to meet some Palenque when I visited Cartagena, Colombia, SA in 1993. Now many of my questions are answered.
We have been robbed of our history... I thank God for people like him..WE TOO HAVE A HISTORY!!!!
Eber Yahuan AND WHAT IS THAT???
I love Africa ..I love my people all over the world....Africans being all over the world tells me alot of what is in the Bible ..
Yes and when you read the Bible with that knowledge it opens up your understanding and squashes the lies being preached in shrines for centuries. THE PEOPLE are waking up!!!
We will once more powerfull again the time is coming. What goes up must come down.
Im Congolese. These people are 100% congolese. Just hear their drum and lyrics is exactly Kikongo. ” Nioka” is snake ” ngombe” is exactly Cow. In almost all the languages in Congo, the DRC, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, zambia, southafrica and all the East African countries.
Nioka (snake) touts extensive cognates in the Afro-Asiatic Super-Family of languages, including ancient Egyptian (Ang [Ankh]), Ethiopian (Nekhas, Nehas), Arabic (Hanesh) and Hebrew (Nachas), among others. The snake shaped words also denoting "biting (snake bite)," as in Nekese (Eth.) and again Nachas (Heb.).
@@sangularnamibe8572 grt
I am from Colombia; now living in the Bay Area, US. My grandmother was from Cartagena and this is the first time I hear the breakdown of the DNA so concisely.
I am getting goose pimples as I listen and and am indescribably moved; I, too, carry some of this DNA.
Thank you, Professor!
I’m Caribbean and Central American, I know just looking at my family. Some look Spanish, some look indigenous american, and some look African. And some look mixed of all of them. Me being of the mixed looking ones. I know as I have 4 tribes of West African decent in my blood plus 5 indigenous American tribes as well with some Spanish. Beautiful to see the truth being revealed
That is Bantu language. The word ng'ombe and nyoka have the same meaning in Swahili. Swahili is a well spoken language in drc
Bantu people are Israelites. FACTS!!
Elliyah lol no their not, skin of bronze like furnace. Watch a video of bronze burning in a furnace lol stop believing the hype.
@@stayalert7060 so you are afro colombian?
@@djkoz1 හචැචළෝආ. 😉😒👠👑💍💄📣🔦💡🖋️🖋️✒️🖋️✒️✒️
In grassfield Cameroon, ngombe means shepherd
All is always about us Africa. everything started here. Respect Cameroon
Ndonue Takwi we are the Israelites that were scattered throughout the earth. Even the native Americans are our long lost brothers who migrated here thousands of years ago
Read Deuteronomy 28:15-68
Joel 3
237 forever
God bless Amazonia!
Bad Reboot fake natives
We are such a resilient people to have survived a terrible history of slavery and produce cultures that is admired and copied around the world. I notice the dances the Palenqero women were doing shows how much they influenced the larger Latin American music and culture
What a beautiful TED talk about the cultural richness of my country. Colombia. Some extra data, once I was told by a Cartagenero acquiantance that Palenqueros mourn when a baby is born and have a party when someone dies. Why? they were aware of the hardships of life once it begins, they used to be slaves and life as a slave was suffering so death was welcomed as liberation. Palenqueros know a thing or two about life that we don´t.
libardolucumi that funeral ritual is called Lumbalú. In Palenque when someone dies they celebrate that ritual which consists mainly in singing and dancing because the person's suffering is over.
libardolucumi as the saying goes "Give me liberty or give me death"
@Peggy Wiley That is what my brother says Peggy!
Am Kenyan and this really broke heart but at the same time happy to know we are spiritually connected especially the Bantus
Proud Bantu🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
I have been fascinated with Palenquero since first coming in contact with it while teaching ESL in Colombia, Their festival de tambores is amazing. I am currently working towards an MA in Spanish. I would really like to learn more about the language and the people. I may have to look into UCI's PHD program to possible focus research on the topic. Amazing history, people, and language.
Palenque records best music from Palenque
I was born in DR Congo presently living in Canada 🇨🇦 for the past 12 years, I am deeply touched by this story, these are our people.
Don Oldwell where do you live in Canada???
They came from all of Africa. Africa is one and they are all children of Africa
No! Children of ISRAEL the real JEWS!!!!
@sleekz Squeeze thank you!! I'm was born in JAMAICA and now reside in Canada and I know my thru nationality, that we are the lost tribe of Judah that were scattered throughout the earth , but now there's an awakening . I leaning a few Bantu words kembo matondo Tata Yama Zulu.😂😂😂what do you think?
Instead of dehumanizing the people by referring to them as slaves, why not just say africans
Africa is a continent is it not? Why not refer to them by their true nationality? Is not Africa today comprised of 54 separate and distinct countries/nations? Is not the word "AFRICA" a Greek word? What was this so-called "African land mass called before it was renamed by the Greeks? People, please research the hidden history!
What? Are you kidding me? G🤔
@@gt8569 ??
@@dashboy007 I don't have a question l understand fully what you stated. But, the other comment, no. SMH
@@gt8569 Perhaps you are reading my questions without context. My questions are rhetorical. And they most certainly are not aimed at attacking you in any way.
I Pray that some day, the Diaspora
in 🇺🇸, will be able to know exactly where we are from in Africa. 🙏🙏🙏😢😢😢
We are from many Nations and tribes from West Africa and south west
@@seanmikaeel90s50 Thank you. Your input encourages and excites me in concerns to our future. ❤
Beautiful story, very moving indeed. Thanks for bringing your research to the Americas, North and South. This is such an incredible resource.
Ngombe ( cow) nioka (snake), is also same in swahili language.
It also means cow in kalanga language from botswana
They call a snake nioka in Botswana we call a snake noga we are the bantu people
Letlhogonolo Moirapula Indeed. The words are similar among this wide geography in Africa because these languages are in the Bantu language family. Vast majority of languages starting below Cameroon in the west and Somalia in the east all the way to tip of Africa are Bantu.
@mj-I know a little Swahili-Ngombe in Swahili is also cow,Snake in NYOKA in Swahili..wow
In zimbabwe mombe n'ombe cow, nyoka snake Bantu
In the Shona language of Zimbabwe nyoka is snake and mombe is cattle. It's all Bantu
This research and presentation was done with so much respect for the people.
i stopped everything i was during just to listen to this talk,a good one...
Wow, thank you. Knowledge is power.
Great to see this lecture from my old professor! His Spanish dialectology class was one of my favorite classes in graduate school.
The ending always makes me emotional. Such a great talk! Thank you profe.
Mayombe 😍 it's our home! In my village! I'm so happy to see and know this information. Love you my brothers.
They should implement this types of discussion to all students from K-12 😀.
Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for taking the time and the interest to answer the question.
It´s good for you to know than Colombia, as well as other American countries, such as Cuba, Peru, Brazil, etc., have made an important part of its own culture and heritage, this African influence in their food, their music, their clothes and even their way to see life...
I didn't know that Columbia had African people until I started sponsoring one through Compassion International. I knew Brazil did but I'm so glad to learn more about this.
Colombia* not Columbia!
African People are all over the world ❤
They took African people all over the world. There is even Afro-Germans, who came from Africa to Germany. What's even more surprising, is that Hilter did not bother them, during his ethnic cleansing campaign.
Anywhere Africans were taken as slaves has a population of their descendants. Every country in Latin America and the Caribbean had slaves.
Brazil is trying to erase its African heritage..
Deut. 28: 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other;
Thank you...people who know the truth
@Hansen Says Take A Seat take a seat
A Kiss From Nature Yes that is the truth
@Hansen Says Take A Seat if the bible was from Europe maybe, but it's not
@Hansen Says Take A Seat lmao.... The lies!!!
I am really impressed with this TEDTalk, it is definitely worth it and inspiring! My warmest congratulations to Dr. Armin Schwegler for showing the world the most human aspect of linguistics and for transmitting his enthusiasm and motivation!
Un discurso emocionante que permite apreciar el valor humano de proyectos interdisciplinarios y que motiva a los estudiantes a adentrarse en el camino de la investigación, ¡excelente!
This type of linguistic analysis need to take place all over Africa we use the same word for snake in south Africa(Zulu) and cow is nkomo I wander how the ngombe is pronounced, this type of research could show us how connected we are as bantu peoples
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE DOCUMENTARIES I HAVE EVER WATCH
They always knew. They know their time is up so they display themselves as saviours. God look after my people everywere.
Ameen
Totally with you there Mlungisi
Mlungisi Dlamini The god you are asking for help came from Europe to you. Maybe you can start by worshiping the right god as this Jesus or allah god does not respond to Africans, hence our current state.
I'm from Zimbabwe and we call snakes nyoka and cattle... n'ombe/ mombe
Thank you for bringing light to these people
( Ba) Yombe are part of the many ethnies that made the great Kingdom of Kongo; the same people may be found in today's Angola. The Lari tribe also are the same people in Congo Brazzalville, DRC and perhaps in Angola. The fact is that these countries have (as we know it, artificial borders ; remember Berlin 1885 !!!).
I don't have to be a scientist or some kinda anthropologist but I confirm all that you said to be true based merely upon my observation. I lived in Kinshasa, DRC (West), where I had friends from Yombe region, "Brazzavillois" (people from the City of Brazzalville) neighboring Congo and Angola.
Note: Ngombe means cow in few languages; Nioka or Nyoka (Inzoka in Rwanda!) means snake. We can easily draw some conclusions.
Thanks for sharing!!
The words like ngombe and nyoka means the same in kikuyu language of East Africa. Ngombe for cattle n nyoka for snake..
Liar... those are Swahili words!
@@lenniefei6710 -swahili is BANTU LANGUAGE..WHATS YOUR PEOBLEM?
@@ahmosethemelanite9325 Right.Then it should be referred as such and not "Kikuyu!"
@Heru Behudety Bantu is an entire ethnic group of people,kikuyu is a single ethnic group among Bantus
@@ahmosethemelanite9325
Don't mind him/her. Some people brainwashed bantus to make them believe that Swahili was arab. It couldn't be because it's spoken all over east, south and south east africa even in french speaking DRC.
They also said that the malagasy language was from Borneo until I heard people from Madagascar speaking their language. It all sounded like Swahili to me.
I have tears on my eyes now because of seeing this... I am full of joy... I love you guys from a liberian 🇱🇷 brother
Thank you Dr. Swegler for your work and the joy it has brought out of the nightmare that was slavery. I could not help but notice that out of the many "jumbo jets" from Africa, the survivors of "one village" are all that remain. So there was more than slavery taking its toll of lives. In the US where I live, Jim Crow followed slavery. What followed in Latin America? Or at least in Columbia?
@CDannyJohnson there are still millions of people with African heritage, especially in the Pacific and Caribbean regions of Colombia. But most of them speak only Spanish. Racial mixing is also common, that's completely normal in some Latin American countries. You should come and visit!
This is wonderful! 💖 I'm so happy they are learning their stories 😁
Can we have this done in North America?
Thanks sooooo much am Ugandan and this moved alot
This speaker should be a part of history
Thanks a lot for bringing this up. I am myself from Angola, born in Kongo region, and the words you mentioned really match with Kikongo which is a language I do speak.
Armin Schwegler, you are officially my hero!
Eber Yahuan facts!
I’ve heard people speak similar language in Puerto Rico, some of my great grandmothers cousins spoke a language similar. Even though it was of the Garifuna tribe. It was Amazing man ✊🏾✊🏾
I'm from the Kongo Kingdom, from the part now considered Angola. So here I am crying, while standing in the middle of a street in Lisbon - Portugal writing this comment...
I appriciate this great man, He speak about them with full of passion and Love. Such an amazing story..!!
Now, can you study those "Africans" that came before 1600 on their own?
Mwaura Kinuthia nonsense
Are u okay? Do u also believe that drinking bleach cures coronavirus.
In URUGUAY they have their own language which is a creole that no one in South America understand either it's also mix of African and Spanish mixed with indigenous words and phrases Mexico also have their own free settlement that dates around that time too
What yall faced foh. WHITES DID THIS SO CLEAN IT UP
The Palenque people never looked for you, you looked for them. They never told you they were poor though, you defined their state from your personal perspective. They chose to preserve their culture, language despite the duress out there to integrate with the rest of society..that is resilience. You did well speaking the language, it shows your heart is pure and you respect them. The importance of this study is that you are able to trace the exact spot of origin of the Palenque people. Many other race especially white race living in North America don't even know where exactly they are from.
It is hard as a Colombian to hear that a stranger went to teach our own about their origin. That is BS. Tha Palenqueros have always known their roots, their ancestry, their history. The might not have written it, but it is part of their culture, their daily lives, their pride. To imply that because he went to Palenque then suddenly they understood is insulting to a land that proclaims themselves to be a little bit of Africa outside of Africa. It almost feels like a white man is giving himself glory of a history and understanding that is not his.
Exactly 😂 many afro Colombians been saying this and told me slaves from Colombia mostly came from Congo and Angola in central Africa and it's not just Palenque that acknowledges this.
Other slaves were from the Papel people in Guinea Bissau and Jolas in Senegal/Gambia.
Every Afro Colombian knows they're mostly Bakongo even without DNA. If you've met Congolese/Angolans then you'll see the same people.
Those who were in chattel slavery in the US were forced to give up our original languages and customs...its kinda messed up
moni love The reality is that only a small percentage of enslaved Africans were shipped to the United States of America. The bulk of enslaved were shipped and dropped off throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America, of course the most enslaved Africans were in Brazil. All enslaved Africans throughout the Americas were stripped of their language, customs, ethnic origins and reduced to property. Dehumanized to the 10th degree.
@@001islandprincess no argument here
Indeed they had it worse and for longer in the U.S.
@@001islandprincess i agree that only a small percentage of enslaved Africans were shipped to the US. Some countries, Brazil in particular, enslaved Africans were allowed to hold on to some semblance of their African culture more than those in America...
Palenqueros, bala ba Kongo( Palenqueros, children of the Kongo)!!! I can't wait to travel to Palenque to merge with you. Kongo dia ntontila, Kongo diéto!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes Colombia and Venezuela the brothers and sisters came from the Congo and Lunda Kingdoms, today Congo and Angola. 40% of the African Slaves to the Americas came from Southern Africa, mainly Angola and Congo. The Portuguese were the last ones to drop slavery. Even between the 1st and the 2nd world wars the Portuguese were still bringing in slaves.
Soon as i saw the title i knew they are my Family 🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴
AMAZING WORK BROTHER 👌🏾
VERY TOUCHING 😟😔😤✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
LIVING IN EUROPE 🙏🏿
Thank for your generosity and interest in our territory
That was so inspiring, it brought tears to my eyes. I envy the Palenque people because like so many others, I am still lost with little or no hope of ever being found!!
Don't worry you will be found.God knows who you are
It's important to decolonize the language and vocabulary of the system and re-identify with appropriate language. For example, instead of calling the people "slaves" they were actually "enslaved Africans" because their identity is NOT the same as the role in which they were forced. Let us as academicians be more socially responsible with our word choices in the new age.
Well said!
Everyone interested in viewing more about their story, you must watch the TV series, "La Esclava Blanca"! It is incredible! It is about Palenque, its people, the plantation many of them worked on, the hope of escape, and of course...the extreme hatred the people had for them. You will enjoy "almost" every minute of it...it can get quite emotionally and visibly rough. It is great to see this story unfold.
I saw it and loved it at first but why make the white girl the protagonist in what is essentially a story about Palenque? I love Colombia but Afro-Colombians need more representation. Regardless good novela to start with.
I can pick up words in this language since Ngombe province is in Equateur Province, widespread along both sides of the Congo River, Mongala district and adjacent parts of Sud Ubangi and Equateur districts; possibly some in Orientale Province. and in this province it's where they speak a pure Congolese main language "Lingala" when I said pure, means not mixing with european languange. I feel crying to see my people
I’m from Angola and they are my people too, Nkongo, Di Loango( Cabinda), Di Angola 🇦🇴
Lol Loango is mostly ROC and was colonised by French but yeah same people of the kingdom. Hopefully you still speak kikongo/kiyombe or understand it at least. Angola is not Kongo peoples except NW Angola (Zaire province) rest of Angola are not Kongo peoples nor do they speak any form of the kikongo languages. Angola is Mbundus and even they'll make that clear. There are many different Kongo languages. Yombe is more in ROC compared to that of Cabinda and DRC but we still speak it in Cabinda as that's my clan. ✊
Briptz 96 Hi, hope you’re well bro Kikongo is spoken in several cities in Angola, M’banza Kongo - Translated City of Kongo, Uige, Cabinda, Loanda, Bengo and parts of Kwanza Norte - small pockets of people.... Now , the kings of the Kongo Kingdom were in today angola , hence they put the name of Angola as Angola, because N’gola means King, and in the Latin A, means without... So Angola means, without kings .... Now the 3 countries were to be called Belgium Congo, French Congo in which you later changed to Zaire and back to Congo and Portuguese Congo( Angola)... But to make a distinction of the 3 Congo’s , they kept angola as Angola... Now, Kikongo and Kimbundu are like Portuguese and Spanish, and if you study the kings of Kongo and N’dongo, you will find that they were family, and that’s how the N’dongo were formed , from the bakongo.... Now the Bakongo or N’dongo have no similarities with the people who speak Lingala, very different....
@@delcio2012 Absolutely no idea why you even mentioned Lingala when I'm talking of kiyombe which is a form of kikongo as it is of the Yombe people and has zero connections with Lingala.
Loango is ROC. Bakongos didn't start in Mbanza Kongo. Angola is actually more Ambundu. My mum is from NW Angola and if you're truly Mukongo you would know that. Lol no idea why you are talking of Lingala. Cabinda is not Angola and never have been. Lol Lingala you know. Not my language. Do more research on Kongo languages please.
Briptz 96 bro, I just told you that the N’dongo which is the correct classification and not M’bundu... Kikongo and N’dongo or Kimbundu as some call it, are the same language... You’re still attached to an European perspective, remove yourself from mental slavery... I’m trying to unify and you’re trying to be right ... No ones right .... Have a goodnight, please don’t reply again... Let’s just move on... Even better, you’re right 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 - Congratulations
@@delcio2012 Brother I know kimbundu is related to Kikongo but they will deny it. Lol I've never seen Mbundus claim they are related to Bakongos but its okay. In NW Angola it's known they despise Bakongos. Not all of them but most.
Not about being right or wrong. I was only confused as to why you mentioned Lingala cus that isn't my language.
Anhhow regarding Mbundus, I just call people as they please. Mbundus that I've come across in Angola will not admit they came from Kongo or are related to Bakongos but it's all good.
Unity in Angola is key but I respect people and call them as they please.
Stay blessed bro. 🇦🇴
11:20 And Egypt too
Snake in:
Palenquero - Ñoká
Kikongo - Nióka
Ancient Egyptian - Nahas (from which we have the letter N, which is an abstraction of a snake)
The fact that they're Afrikans is enough. It doesn't matter what part. Afrika is a huge continent. We in Afrika love them and they should not be ashamed or give up their language. It's a rich language and they should be proud of it. The word for snake is also nyoka in Swahili that's spoken in East Afrika.
This is the first time I've seen this before.. I love it too.. Stay strong My Palenquero brothers in Brazil and Colombia ✊✊
I am Namibian from Herero ethnicity, some of the words like ngombe and nioka I can understand but for us, we say ongombe and onyoka. Perhaps we have the same root as these people.
You're not related to us except we are all Bantus. Can you understand Kikongo, kiyombe etc? Please basic bantu connections don't make us related. I don't understand herero. Your roots aren't with us. Completely different language with a few basic bantu connections.
@@briptz7305 I have to disagree with you, we have the same root.
@@otjiuonga We have the same root which is bantu but can you understand Kikongo, kiyombe etc? Seriously I swear you guys just hear basic bantu connections and assume you're speaking the same language. I do not understand Herero at all. Many Bantus across Africa also have the same roots which is Bantu but then they start speaking random stuff which isn't related. There are many Bantu languages that have these connections. For you to say you share the same root as my people is ridiculous. You cannot understand my language.
@@otjiuonga Anyhow I'm not going to argue with you because I know my history as a Mukongo. We Bakongos have suffered far too long and you watch a basic story told by a white man and assume you share the same history as us? No you don't.
Palenquero also is more than just these basic bantu connections this guy has put. These people came from Loango in ROC. Loango are Bakongos.
AFRO Colombians are also from Guinea Bissau and Senegal. Herero are bantus but don't try to mix with Bakongos based on basic terms this guy has put. I won't watch a video of herero people and claim because a guy has put basic bantu connections as my roots. Ridiculous slavery isn't a joke. You people don't know anything about us. We came from South Sudan although it is true many bantu ethnic groups migrated directly from us before we got to Central Africa. Many ethnic groups even in Nigeria such as TIV say they came from bakongos and basic linguistics prove that too but their language is different. Bantu expansion is more than what whites have written. These so called 'pygmies' are originally called Twa and majority are not short. The whites then lies and said we Bakongos are a mixture of Dinka in South Sudan and pygmies. Whilst we did come from South Sudan, we are not related to the Dinka people at least not linguistics. Please learn the history of the Bakongo and you'll find it is more than what whites have written. Banda people in Central African Republic also share roots with bantu languages such as Chewa etc but banda people are not bantus.
Herero people have their own story to tell. Don't let basic connections make you think you have the same root as my people brother.
Peace ✌🏾
@@briptz7305 I don't think he meant same roots as in he understands your languages completely. It's just both are bantus so he found words similar if that makes sense. Many Africans don't know the history of Bakongos. It is believed that Nguni peoples (Zulus, xhosa, Swazi and Ndebele) came from Bakongos. Kalanga people of Shona in Zimbabwel. TIV in Nigeria as you've mentioned. Balondo in Cameroon..Kambas in Kenya.Beembe in Tanzania etc. Literally nearly every tribe in Zambia has connections to Bakongos if not all of them. Ndongo aka Mbundus in Angola neighbours also came from Bakongos directly. Many people claim Kikongo is the Bantu language that connects all Bantu languages once broken down. Sounds crazy but maybe he could have roots because Bakongos spread out as you know Bakongos have many clans in itself such as Yombe, Vili, Muzombo, Sundi etc and the history told in Angola, Congos and Gabon that the kings would move around East, West and Southern Africa to expand. Many Balubas claim Lunda people are Bakongos and the Balunda in Zambia say they came from there etc. Ibibios in Nigeria also share history with Bakongos. It's all in the languages of the Kongo peoples.
Bantu languages are not that hard to figure out especially as most are in clans and put together. Kikongo like i said people claim has many connections to most if not all Bantu languages and even non Bantu languages.
Also remember some of these Bantu tribes mixed their languages with other peoples they mixed with such as San people in southern Africa..nilotics in Kenya, Tanzania etc. Anyway Bantus we are all one. He doesn't know your peoples history but he is related to you. He's not saying his people are the Bakongos or the trans Atlantic slavery is related to Herero people. Just you are Bantu family.
Peace bro. Unity in Africa is needed.
I want to go there!! Why have I never heard of this place???
Immigration wouldn't let u enter
@@okuomose1 why not? I just want to be educated and enjoy the people and the beautiful scenery.
@@erichardric4795 Anyways goodluck
@@okuomose1 Have you ever been? I ask because I thought maybe you know something I don't. I would appreciate any information you want to give me.
@@erichardric4795 I am from Cartagena, close to Palenque... You are welcome to visit Palenque. That unknown one is not an authority.
amazing how our languages are linked ,in Sepedi (South africa) Snake is called "Noga" and in Palenquero is "Noka" 11:26
Yeah we are Bantus. Bakongos we are proud people. Many languages in southern and Eastern Africa will understand Kikongo to an extent because we are related and many ethnic groups originated from Bakongos.
AWESOME information. I want to do more research. I NEVER knew this at all.