Haha, yeah -- that guy was really nice and fun to talk to you. I also was glad that he helped tease out part of the gendered dynamics of teeth-sucking :-)
American here. Heard this sound all the time going through school (shorter, cheekier sound). Never thought much about it until I realized I had unconsciously adopted it. Eventually it became a pretty normal thing for me to do to express dissatisfaction (usually to myself or around my peers). For whatever reason, I got curious today as to the origin of this sound, so here I am. It's super fascinating how it came to be used in the modern day. Especially when you think about how humans have more than likely been using that sound since before spoken language was invented.
Thanks for the video! I keep reading novels out of Nigeria and other places in Africa that say things like “She sucked her teeth at him,” so I googled it and it brought me here. I loved seeing sarunchi in action, haha!
You're welcome! That's interesting that Nigerian authors also use that expression. I figured that in Anglophone Africa, they might have coined a specific verb like "tchip" in French
I am from central america and everybody does this here! I thought it was a latino thing, turns out it came from africa, this is so interesting! My version is shorter though, the african version lasts like 2 seconds, and mine is less than one second. And so is my mother's, and my aunts and uncles', etc. But it was so fun to find out about this
Hi Diana! :-) Thanks for sharing. Yes, it's very interesting to read about the various inflections of this cultural practice across the world :-) You are the first to mention it for Central America in the comments, I believe!
Yeah, USA black americans do it in a much shorter way, kind of like lip/cheek sucking, but it's really short. Some drag it out so long, it's like it draws the energy out of you 😂
That's so cool that that's the origin. It's a common thing for most people to do in the metro Detroit area which means we probably picked it up from the one of the largest black populations in America in Detroit
Thanks for chiming in, Tobi :-) Yes, it's quite the global phenomenon, but it seems to have roots that can be tied back to a (West?) African cultural practice
Thank you so much for this wonderful document, both very informative and entertaining. Learning something this subtle from cultures so different and far away without leaving the comfort of our homes is priceless. Unfortunately, I had a Nigerian girl flatmate who used to do it at me more often than I'd like to admit it. If one has never received it, they couldn't understand how much it bothers you. I definitely empathasize with the man thinking his wife is turning into a witch for doing it too often!
In the U.S. I grew up hearing Caribbean & Black Americans "suck their teeth" or "steups" (I do it, too). When I started watching Ivorian movies I realized how the West African version is a longer sound, but for the same situations. Heard it in Santiago, Cuba too! Not sure how to spell the term but it sounded something like "chuillo"
Thanks for sharing your experience and insights, MissAB :-) Yes, I agree that the US version is shorter, but that otherwise it functions much the same! Interesting to hear that there's a potential Spanish language term too!
Funny, I notice some similarities between Manding and the Ghanaian language my mum speaks to me (Twi/Akan), even though I don’t think they’re at all from the same language family. E.g. early in the video I see a guy saying something like “3 ny3” (it’s not good) which is exactly how you’d say that in Twi. Also I think I saw ka means speak in Manging? Same in Twi. I also saw online that barima means uncle in Manding; we have that exact word (spelt the same I think) but pronounced “b33ma”, but in Twi it means boy/man.
Thanks for sharing! Those are interesting observations for two languages that are in two different families. It can happen though either by chance or by borrowing and/or mutual influence. The expression for "It's not good" would be "À man ɲi". The expression for "language" is "kan".
Glad you liked it! :-) Short answer is that I did Peace Corps in Burkina Faso and then continued to study the language for years as part of my research career. Do you speak it too?
This is a sound that has lingered in black America, from West Africa. It's something that we would get into trouble for, so instead of making the "Tchip" sound, kids started eliminating the sound and just turning the lips in that direction. I'm sure you've seen it.
Thank you for chiming in with some more potential insights, Mizzobjective :-) I certainly have seen a kind of similar practice in the US! I wrote a blog post about it a long time ago with some references and videos too: speechevents.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/sucking-teeth-2/
Je suis du Mali et j'adore ta chaîne ! Le tchip ne veut pas juste dire que du mépris, ça peut aussi être de la joie, de la surprise, tout dépend du ton, de la duré, de l'intensité. bref comme toute chose ça s'apprend au fur et a mesure. pour tchiper, le.mieux c'est de coller le bou de ta langue en haut de la parois de ta bouche et d'aspirer l'air (en serait avec fauble intensité t'es dents, c'est ca la base et de là tu peu le modifier a l'infini. :) I bɛ ka bara ɲuma kɛ, I dji dja i ka to ni sira kɛn :)
I ni ce, Rocket! Merci pour l'avis sur le tchip et ses nuances, mais surtout pour les conseils sur comment bien faire :-) I ni ce i ka kuma duman na. N bɛna n jija! Ala ka barika don an bɛɛ ka baara la
My husband is from Bogota, Colombia and he sucks his teeth all the time. He does it more after eating. Also, he does it to annoy the crap out of me. I was raised by parents who believed that such noises were disgusting and poor table manners. We were hit or yelled at and we just didn't do it. Anyway, unless you have a submarine stuck between your teeth, I think it's nasty lol.
After eating? That makes me think that maybe his use of it might be slightly different as a cultural practice. The West African version covered in this video doesn't have much to do with table manners since it's not really associated with eating
Huh, I never thought there were people who couldn't such there teeth. I'm African-American, but me, my family, and folks I grew-up with have always been able to make this sound.
Yeah, I can't quite do it like people in West Africa do -- there's a few variations in my experience. It's interesting how a lot of popular Western coverage of the "tchip" totally leaves out the fact that it is a part of African-American culture too. It's normally just said to be "Afro-Caribbean" which to my ears, at first, doesn't clearly include Black Americans. Would you say that it it is done the same way and sounds the same where you grew up? :-)
Really? I’m black American and I can’t do this. No black person I know can. Never heard it. We “smack our lips” which is similar, but it doesn’t have that drawn out “chewww” sound”. I’m practicing cause I like it. I hate that I cant. I notice that all other peoples of the African diaspora can do it, and I have never hear a black American do it.
@@sashanasouth827 😅 SO much so, I've never thought about the sound but I always knew what it meant. Not until you hear others, outside of your normal (caribbeans, south americans, west africans) do it, that you know there has to be some type of connection.
Glad you like it, Emily! I let out a light suruntu from time to time but I can't get how I'd like either :-) What I really wanna learn right is the throat-click of agreement though!
It's true -- thanks Marsha! I actually wrote a little piece about this with some references to some Black American research and practices too in case it's of interest to anyone: speechevents.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/sucking-teeth-2/
Its used extensively in the Caribbean. Jamaicans call it kissing teeth. In the southern caribbean we call it steupsing. The noun is steups. It can also be used jovially like "you must be joking"
Hi Skele! Someone (maybe you?) asked this same question recently on the AKT blog and I responded there with a link, but I think the short answer is "not really" :-) Here's the post: www.ankataa.com/blog/suck-teeth-in-west-africa
🇫🇷 On l'écrit "mtchew", au lieu de "tchip" ici en Nigéria 😄 et c'est très habituel également. 🇬🇧 We write it as "mtchew" in Nigeria, not "tchip". It's also very common here 😁
Very interesting! So do people write it in text messages amidst English writing for instance? When written that way ("mtchew") is it considered to be a specific language (e.g., Yoruba, Hausa, Pidgin) or is it cross-linguistic Nigerian? :-)
@@Ankataa It's common here in Ghana as well. Yes, it's written in informal text messages, often as "mtchew" or "tsw". Is it considered to be a specific language? Not at all; it's just a sound. It's one of the sounds you hear a lot in primary school (usually made by girls as they roll their eyes at you). Back then, we (wrongly) called it "chuckling".
It's context specific. If you met someone you're at loggerheads with and did it, it would mean they disgust you, but if you tripped and did it, it'd mean you're irritated or frustrated by you tripping.
Huh, interesting! I normally choose "tsk" or just leave it be understood from the audio/visual. They could have used one of these other spellings meant to approximate the sound of sucking teeth as a "verbal gesture": ankataa.discourse.group/t/english-language-names-for-le-tchip-aka-sucking-your-teeth/444
@@monalogan Mandinka and Bambara are both varieties of Manding, but Mandinka is an outlier amongst the four major Manding varieties; it's the furthest away from the others (with only a 5-vowel system instead of 7): Bambara, Jula/dioula and Maninka/malinké. If you want to learn more check out the map and description that I wrote here: www.ankataa.com/resources
J'ai vécu deux ans dans un village au Burkina en tant que volontaire du Peace Corps et ensuite j'ai continué à étudier la langue pendant des années en tant que chercheur :-)
J'ai eu des leçons pendant le Peace Corps et ensuite j'ai acheté et étudié tous les livres que j'ai pu trouvé. Après j'ai pu étudier la linguistique et la grammaire mandingue à l'INALCO pour un an. Ensuite, pendant mon parcours doctoral j'ai eu la chance d'étudier la langue avec des maîtres N'ko aux Etats-Unis, au Burkina, Mali et en Guinée pendant quelques semaines voire mois chaque année. Et toi, tu l'étudies ou tu la parles?
This is so funny lol In my country Nigeria we suck teeth alot,it can be u are irritated my something or someone ,u aren't interested in that he/she is talking about it doing,we can also use it as a joke (like two friends talking and u just suck teeth) u can also call sucking teeth "hissing" ,it can be classified as an insult when u use it on an adult (like ur mom or an elderly person is talking to u and u just suck your teeth or hiss) they gonna whoop your ass 😅😅. in my class then we do have sucking teeth contest just to joke and annoy others because its kinda contagious lol (if someone sucks teeth at me I'll want to respond back so I'll have to suck my teeth also lol) I hope this helps if u didn't really understand the Video 😊
@@Ankataa I use it to call them! I've even have friends who have trained all their dogs to the same sound since we had lived together for a while. They still use the sound despite getting another dog and not living with me for a few years.
@@freedom_is_gold6747My parents were both born and raised in the deep southern coastlines of Mexico. Guerrero & Michoacán. I recently gained more insight on my bloodlines ancestry and I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that my family is descendent of AfroMexican peoples. I do have lots of physical traits that would support this theory. I also feel internally that I’ve always resonated with African art, music, etc. I also believe in the statement that out of darkness came light.. meaning that essentially we ALL came from darkness.. melanin.. blackness…. roots… AFRICA🖤🤎🤍
@@fabgod96 yes actuslly i have watched a couple of mwxican ancestry results here on youtube and found smaller percentages of african ancestry there! you can type mexican ancestry/ dna on youtube and see some results! ever tried a dna test to find out what part of africa you might have some origin in?
I ka ni video ɲɛna kojugu. Surunji bɛ sɔrɔ dimi de ka caya, no tɛ dolonkɛ fɛ a bɛ kɛ fana. Adama et Aleman ye, i bɛ se Mandenkan na kojugu. Mɔgɔ bɛ kan caman dɔn cogo di?
Nba! I ni ce, karamɔgɔ! N bɛ dɔɔnin dɔn kan nin na nka n ma wasa fɔlɔ 🙃 Kan-kalan ka di n ye, nka dugutaga kɛra sababu ye, n sera ka kan kelen-kelen fara anglais-kan kan :-)
Ayiwa, ne y'a faamu sisan ,I ye jija caama kɛ nka hali sa i jija. I bɛ maa caam ɲɛ yan Bamanankan na. N fana bɛ ka nafa caman sɔrɔla ni walandaw fɛ. Ni n y'a faamu, bamanankan ye Mandenkan dialɛkiti dɔ ye, o tɛ wa?
5:17 hahahaha wo le jo! farafin muso te'n di koni n'ye wo ke la waati be! mais n ba wo ke, n denyoon te jusufin la ;) comme ai ba ye toubabou muso ye wo ke la, ai di yele ou quoi ;)
I ni ke tugunin! A duman n ye ko i ka tuɲa do ye kɛ la kuma dɔ :-) I ka maninkakan lɔn ɲa di n'i ma kɛ farafinmuso di? Fɔlɔfɔlɔ n ka maninkakan karan Kankan!
@@Ankataa ah bon n te se maninka kan fo belebeleke iko ide, a I n ma kusan k'wo sebe. N ka si village kankan kerefe donin, donc n fanan ka maninka kan karan kankan. :) n bara sewa. I diallo
Errata
06:31 English tier should read "Man, I'm still in this world. Haven't died yet"
Cool
Lol, I can't believe there's a documentary on teeth sucking! Well done.
Haha, thanks Toronto :-) Maybe a full documentary will see the light someday, but for now this will have to do 🙃
😂😂😂 Had me in tears when the guy says “My wife teeth-sucked so much I thought ‘man! Is she some kinda witch?’ 😂
Haha, yeah -- that guy was really nice and fun to talk to you. I also was glad that he helped tease out part of the gendered dynamics of teeth-sucking :-)
American here. Heard this sound all the time going through school (shorter, cheekier sound). Never thought much about it until I realized I had unconsciously adopted it. Eventually it became a pretty normal thing for me to do to express dissatisfaction (usually to myself or around my peers). For whatever reason, I got curious today as to the origin of this sound, so here I am. It's super fascinating how it came to be used in the modern day. Especially when you think about how humans have more than likely been using that sound since before spoken language was invented.
Thanks for sharing, Mourningstar! Yes, it's quite amazing how different shades of this "verbal gesture" exist around in the world :-)
Thanks for the video! I keep reading novels out of Nigeria and other places in Africa that say things like “She sucked her teeth at him,” so I googled it and it brought me here. I loved seeing sarunchi in action, haha!
You're welcome! That's interesting that Nigerian authors also use that expression. I figured that in Anglophone Africa, they might have coined a specific verb like "tchip" in French
@@Ankataa Yes, ours is spelt "mtchew" and less commonly "mxw" (In Nigeria)
It's an expression of disgust, annoyance or frustration etc, depending on the context.
Thanks for adding your two cents, Brofu!
Thanks, this is very useful! I am reading a novel by Nnedi Okorafor, and I kept on wondering how on earth one is supposed to suck on one's teeth!
You're welcome! It seems like good amount of people have come here because of reading books by anglophone African authors -- very cool! :-)
I am from central america and everybody does this here! I thought it was a latino thing, turns out it came from africa, this is so interesting! My version is shorter though, the african version lasts like 2 seconds, and mine is less than one second. And so is my mother's, and my aunts and uncles', etc. But it was so fun to find out about this
Hi Diana! :-) Thanks for sharing. Yes, it's very interesting to read about the various inflections of this cultural practice across the world :-) You are the first to mention it for Central America in the comments, I believe!
Yeah, USA black americans do it in a much shorter way, kind of like lip/cheek sucking, but it's really short. Some drag it out so long, it's like it draws the energy out of you 😂
That's so cool that that's the origin. It's a common thing for most people to do in the metro Detroit area which means we probably picked it up from the one of the largest black populations in America in Detroit
Thanks for chiming in, Tobi :-) Yes, it's quite the global phenomenon, but it seems to have roots that can be tied back to a (West?) African cultural practice
i finally know how to differentiate teeth sucking and tisking
this documentary is cool
Thanks, MissAsyan! :-)
je n’arrive pas à comprendre un seul mot mais j’adore ces vidéos ...
:-) J'espère que les sous-titres aident donc!
Thank you so much for this wonderful document, both very informative and entertaining. Learning something this subtle from cultures so different and far away without leaving the comfort of our homes is priceless. Unfortunately, I had a Nigerian girl flatmate who used to do it at me more often than I'd like to admit it. If one has never received it, they couldn't understand how much it bothers you. I definitely empathasize with the man thinking his wife is turning into a witch for doing it too often!
You're welcome, Tiberio! Thanks for the kind words :-) Hope you are the flatmate were able to bury the hatchet at some point :-P
This makes me miss Mali so much. I miss the cadences of the language and of life there.
I hope that the videos bring a bit of that back to you too!
Very informative!
Glad it helped! :-)
Is the same in all africa. To the north til the south. Tchip express hanger or depreciation
Expression du mepris parfois
Colere maitrisée
En plus c'est une pratique forte dans le diaspora noir en dehors du Continent!
In the U.S. I grew up hearing Caribbean & Black Americans "suck their teeth" or "steups" (I do it, too). When I started watching Ivorian movies I realized how the West African version is a longer sound, but for the same situations. Heard it in Santiago, Cuba too! Not sure how to spell the term but it sounded something like "chuillo"
Thanks for sharing your experience and insights, MissAB :-) Yes, I agree that the US version is shorter, but that otherwise it functions much the same! Interesting to hear that there's a potential Spanish language term too!
Yeah, other than my Surinamer husband doing it, I've taken a liking to Nollywood movies (Nigerian) and hear the teeth-sucking oh-so much !
I liked their explanation of the characters that suck teeth very often. That they must be very unhappy people.
Haha, yeah, you can tell a lot about someone by how often someone sucks their teeth 🙃
Funny, I notice some similarities between Manding and the Ghanaian language my mum speaks to me (Twi/Akan), even though I don’t think they’re at all from the same language family. E.g. early in the video I see a guy saying something like “3 ny3” (it’s not good) which is exactly how you’d say that in Twi. Also I think I saw ka means speak in Manging? Same in Twi. I also saw online that barima means uncle in Manding; we have that exact word (spelt the same I think) but pronounced “b33ma”, but in Twi it means boy/man.
Thanks for sharing! Those are interesting observations for two languages that are in two different families. It can happen though either by chance or by borrowing and/or mutual influence.
The expression for "It's not good" would be "À man ɲi".
The expression for "language" is "kan".
Now I see where Haitians and other West Indians get the Tchip from. Great stuff!
p.s. How did you become fluent in Bambara?
Glad you liked it! :-) Short answer is that I did Peace Corps in Burkina Faso and then continued to study the language for years as part of my research career. Do you speak it too?
@@Ankataa Oh ok cool. No, I don't but I'd like to learn a west african language one day
This is a sound that has lingered in black America, from West Africa. It's something that we would get into trouble for, so instead of making the "Tchip" sound, kids started eliminating the sound and just turning the lips in that direction. I'm sure you've seen it.
Thank you for chiming in with some more potential insights, Mizzobjective :-) I certainly have seen a kind of similar practice in the US!
I wrote a blog post about it a long time ago with some references and videos too:
speechevents.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/sucking-teeth-2/
Je suis du Mali et j'adore ta chaîne !
Le tchip ne veut pas juste dire que du mépris, ça peut aussi être de la joie, de la surprise, tout dépend du ton, de la duré, de l'intensité. bref comme toute chose ça s'apprend au fur et a mesure.
pour tchiper, le.mieux c'est de coller le bou de ta langue en haut de la parois de ta bouche et d'aspirer l'air (en serait avec fauble intensité t'es dents, c'est ca la base et de là tu peu le modifier a l'infini. :)
I bɛ ka bara ɲuma kɛ, I dji dja i ka to ni sira kɛn :)
I ni ce, Rocket! Merci pour l'avis sur le tchip et ses nuances, mais surtout pour les conseils sur comment bien faire :-)
I ni ce i ka kuma duman na. N bɛna n jija! Ala ka barika don an bɛɛ ka baara la
Heard this all the time growing up in the UK with my caribbean (JA and T&T) parents.😂 My dad would add 'cha' at the end when really pissed off!!
Hope your dad didn't have to use "cha" too often 🙃 Did you call it "suck teeth"?
My husband is from Bogota, Colombia and he sucks his teeth all the time. He does it more after eating. Also, he does it to annoy the crap out of me. I was raised by parents who believed that such noises were disgusting and poor table manners. We were hit or yelled at and we just didn't do it. Anyway, unless you have a submarine stuck between your teeth, I think it's nasty lol.
After eating? That makes me think that maybe his use of it might be slightly different as a cultural practice. The West African version covered in this video doesn't have much to do with table manners since it's not really associated with eating
Becuse it is. its nasty and annoying as fuck!
Very good.
I ni ce! :-)
I can’t do it!! Lol! I’m Black and when we do it, it’s a very short and sharp sound.
I think mine is coming along! 🙃
Huh, I never thought there were people who couldn't such there teeth. I'm African-American, but me, my family, and folks I grew-up with have always been able to make this sound.
Yeah, I can't quite do it like people in West Africa do -- there's a few variations in my experience. It's interesting how a lot of popular Western coverage of the "tchip" totally leaves out the fact that it is a part of African-American culture too. It's normally just said to be "Afro-Caribbean" which to my ears, at first, doesn't clearly include Black Americans. Would you say that it it is done the same way and sounds the same where you grew up? :-)
Me too. Every black person I know, does this. 😂😂😂
Really? I’m black American and I can’t do this. No black person I know can. Never heard it. We “smack our lips” which is similar, but it doesn’t have that drawn out “chewww” sound”. I’m practicing cause I like it. I hate that I cant. I notice that all other peoples of the African diaspora can do it, and I have never hear a black American do it.
@@sashanasouth827 😅 SO much so, I've never thought about the sound but I always knew what it meant. Not until you hear others, outside of your normal (caribbeans, south americans, west africans) do it, that you know there has to be some type of connection.
Great topic! Always wondered about that... However, I spent the whole video trying to surutu... and still can't get it!
Glad you like it, Emily! I let out a light suruntu from time to time but I can't get how I'd like either :-) What I really wanna learn right is the throat-click of agreement though!
Oh the agreement one is my specialty!
Gah! But how?! I can fake it with a throat click of some sorts but it's not proper form! :-) Will you star in a future series?!
bon courage
I ni ce!
It even has an accent. If you hear it enough, you can tell where someone is from😂😂😂
Oh wow! I had never heard that people hear the "tchip" as having different regional variations! Can you describe or tell me more?
Black Americans do this too.
It's true -- thanks Marsha! I actually wrote a little piece about this with some references to some Black American research and practices too in case it's of interest to anyone:
speechevents.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/sucking-teeth-2/
Thanks!
You're welcome!
Its used extensively in the Caribbean. Jamaicans call it kissing teeth. In the southern caribbean we call it steupsing. The noun is steups. It can also be used jovially like "you must be joking"
Thanks so much for sharing, Haruna! I knew of "kissing teeth", but had never heard of "steups". Can it be used as a verb? Like "He steupsed me?"
@@Ankataa The pass tense is still steups. He steups me yesterday. ruclips.net/video/hsdntt3FJNU/видео.html
Is there a symbol for this sound in International Phonetic Alphabet
Hi Skele! Someone (maybe you?) asked this same question recently on the AKT blog and I responded there with a link, but I think the short answer is "not really" :-)
Here's the post:
www.ankataa.com/blog/suck-teeth-in-west-africa
@@Ankataa yes it was me, i am researching it
There needs to be a tooth sucking emoji. Trinidad and Tobago have a steups emoji?
Haha, in France, people just write "tchip" which represents the sound
🇫🇷 On l'écrit "mtchew", au lieu de "tchip" ici en Nigéria 😄 et c'est très habituel également.
🇬🇧 We write it as "mtchew" in Nigeria, not "tchip".
It's also very common here 😁
Very interesting! So do people write it in text messages amidst English writing for instance? When written that way ("mtchew") is it considered to be a specific language (e.g., Yoruba, Hausa, Pidgin) or is it cross-linguistic Nigerian? :-)
@@Ankataa It's common here in Ghana as well. Yes, it's written in informal text messages, often as "mtchew" or "tsw". Is it considered to be a specific language? Not at all; it's just a sound. It's one of the sounds you hear a lot in primary school (usually made by girls as they roll their eyes at you). Back then, we (wrongly) called it "chuckling".
@@whitekite8048 Thank you for the insights, White kite! So you would say "She chuckled at me" to mean "She sucked her teeth at me"? :-)
@@Ankataa Yes, exactly. But not anymore. :)
@@whitekite8048 Very interesting appropriation and semantic drifting :-)
I found this looking for a video compilation of ppl surunci
Haha, well, there's a fair amount of it in the video so hope it helps! :-)
It is an insult in general
What about when directed at things such as in cases where you trip or the like? :-)
@@Ankataa well sometimes in casual life we normally do it just friendly tripping, in this case, you are absolutely right.
It's context specific. If you met someone you're at loggerheads with and did it, it would mean they disgust you, but if you tripped and did it, it'd mean you're irritated or frustrated by you tripping.
Seems like every second line in Top Boy someone is sucking their teeth if you turn on subtitles.
How do they transcribe or represent it in writing?
@@Ankataa {Kisses teeth}
Huh, interesting! I normally choose "tsk" or just leave it be understood from the audio/visual. They could have used one of these other spellings meant to approximate the sound of sucking teeth as a "verbal gesture":
ankataa.discourse.group/t/english-language-names-for-le-tchip-aka-sucking-your-teeth/444
What language are you speaking? And what country you are in, in West Africa?
It's Bambara, the local variety of Manding, as spoken in Mali!
Is that the same language they speak in Gambia as well? U sd Manding as in Mandinka?
@@monalogan Mandinka and Bambara are both varieties of Manding, but Mandinka is an outlier amongst the four major Manding varieties; it's the furthest away from the others (with only a 5-vowel system instead of 7): Bambara, Jula/dioula and Maninka/malinké. If you want to learn more check out the map and description that I wrote here: www.ankataa.com/resources
comment as tu appris le dioula/bambara ?
J'ai vécu deux ans dans un village au Burkina en tant que volontaire du Peace Corps et ensuite j'ai continué à étudier la langue pendant des années en tant que chercheur :-)
An ka taa! et comment la tu étudié ?
J'ai eu des leçons pendant le Peace Corps et ensuite j'ai acheté et étudié tous les livres que j'ai pu trouvé. Après j'ai pu étudier la linguistique et la grammaire mandingue à l'INALCO pour un an. Ensuite, pendant mon parcours doctoral j'ai eu la chance d'étudier la langue avec des maîtres N'ko aux Etats-Unis, au Burkina, Mali et en Guinée pendant quelques semaines voire mois chaque année. Et toi, tu l'étudies ou tu la parles?
This is so funny lol
In my country Nigeria we suck teeth alot,it can be u are irritated my something or someone ,u aren't interested in that he/she is talking about it doing,we can also use it as a joke (like two friends talking and u just suck teeth) u can also call sucking teeth "hissing" ,it can be classified as an insult when u use it on an adult (like ur mom or an elderly person is talking to u and u just suck your teeth or hiss) they gonna whoop your ass 😅😅. in my class then we do have sucking teeth contest just to joke and annoy others because its kinda contagious lol (if someone sucks teeth at me I'll want to respond back so I'll have to suck my teeth also lol)
I hope this helps if u didn't really understand the Video 😊
Thanks for chiming in, Raheema! I had never heard anyone use the term "hissing" to refer to it -- sounds like a Nigerian thing perhaps! :-)
It's not always used negatively btw
When is it used positively?
Wait what
I can't whistle so I make this sound at my dog instead and just now 10 years later I am finding out what it's called 😂👍
Haha, so you use it to call them or to reprimand them? 🙃
@@Ankataa I use it to call them! I've even have friends who have trained all their dogs to the same sound since we had lived together for a while. They still use the sound despite getting another dog and not living with me for a few years.
En malinké on dit Sibôli
I ni ke, karamɔɔ :-)
"My momma sa' ya betta' sho' hur som' respec' an' stop suckin' yo' teef BOY!"
JK much LOVE from America!!!!
I wish we had gotten that quote/explanation in the episode :-)
My mom does this all the time and she’s Mexican. Lol
Maybe it's spreading :-) I ni ce!
perhaps you have afromexican ancestry somewhere and it got passed down?
@@freedom_is_gold6747My parents were both born and raised in the deep southern coastlines of Mexico. Guerrero & Michoacán. I recently gained more insight on my bloodlines ancestry and I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that my family is descendent of AfroMexican peoples. I do have lots of physical traits that would support this theory. I also feel internally that I’ve always resonated with African art, music, etc. I also believe in the statement that out of darkness came light.. meaning that essentially we ALL came from darkness.. melanin.. blackness…. roots… AFRICA🖤🤎🤍
@@fabgod96 yes actuslly i have watched a couple of mwxican ancestry results here on youtube and found smaller percentages of african ancestry there! you can type mexican ancestry/ dna on youtube and see some results!
ever tried a dna test to find out what part of africa you might have some origin in?
I ka ni video ɲɛna kojugu. Surunji bɛ sɔrɔ dimi de ka caya, no tɛ dolonkɛ fɛ a bɛ kɛ fana. Adama et Aleman ye, i bɛ se Mandenkan na kojugu. Mɔgɔ bɛ kan caman dɔn cogo di?
Nba! I ni ce, karamɔgɔ! N bɛ dɔɔnin dɔn kan nin na nka n ma wasa fɔlɔ 🙃 Kan-kalan ka di n ye, nka dugutaga kɛra sababu ye, n sera ka kan kelen-kelen fara anglais-kan kan :-)
Ayiwa, ne y'a faamu sisan ,I ye jija caama kɛ nka hali sa i jija. I bɛ maa caam ɲɛ yan Bamanankan na. N fana bɛ ka nafa caman sɔrɔla ni walandaw fɛ.
Ni n y'a faamu, bamanankan ye Mandenkan dialɛkiti dɔ ye, o tɛ wa?
@@moussakone3456 I ni ce! Baasi tɛ -- n bɛna n jija. Ne bolo, à bɛ ten -- bamanankan ye mandenkan walima mandenkakan "kanbolon" dɔ ye 🙂
Les Sénégalais on tchippe beaucoup😁😁😁😁😁
En tout cas! :-P
C’est quand on est déçu de quelqu’un
Tiɲɛ don! I ni ce :-)
I'm half Nigerian and suck my teeth everytime someone piss me off
Haha, that's a good time to do it :-)
Toubabouke ini timinaja
Nba! I ni ce tuguni!
😂 Some great responses in there
Haha, thanks Odhrán -- hope you're not having to put your tchip to work too often! :-)
An ka taa 😁😁😁
Ayiwa! An ka taa kɛ! :-)
😂😂 d'un coup je suis content
Haha, trop bien :-) I ni ce, Ambende!
😂😂😂
:-) I ni ce!
I think white people's lips aren't big enough to do it, no hate! Just genuinely the reason
Haha, well, that's one theory!
But it isn’t the lips, its the teeth that makes the sound for the most part.
😄😄😂
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
5:17 hahahaha wo le jo! farafin muso te'n di koni n'ye wo ke la waati be! mais n ba wo ke, n denyoon te jusufin la ;) comme ai ba ye toubabou muso ye wo ke la, ai di yele ou quoi ;)
I ni ke tugunin! A duman n ye ko i ka tuɲa do ye kɛ la kuma dɔ :-) I ka maninkakan lɔn ɲa di n'i ma kɛ farafinmuso di? Fɔlɔfɔlɔ n ka maninkakan karan Kankan!
@@Ankataa ah bon n te se maninka kan fo belebeleke iko ide, a I n ma kusan k'wo sebe. N ka si village kankan kerefe donin, donc n fanan ka maninka kan karan kankan. :) n bara sewa. I diallo
Tuɲa tɛ! I kusan kosɛbɛ :-) N fɛ fana, dɛmɛndɛmɛn ne! N'ala sɔnda n di vidéo dolu kɛ Kankan lon do. I la sɛbɛli diyada n ye kojuu! I ni baraji
@@Ankataa n se! i ye burkina faso folo? alla sona, wo di ben fewu. fulani l'i di nye? bon, senanku l'an di, donc n kakan k'i neni nye? ;) inike hun!
Baasi tɛ -- n neni dɔrɔn! N fana d'i neni :-) Ala y'i kɛ fula di! I ni ke
😂😂
Yɛlɛko! :-)
Most annoying sound ever
Depends on which end of it you are, I think ;-)
A koro ye ni mogo nigui bora gnogona
Tuman caman kɔni! :-)