About the Swahili language
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Simba, Rafiki, Pumba and of course Hakuna Matata - all these famous names and phrases come from probably the most well-known and the most widespread African language. If I told you, name one African language, you’d probably name this one. Swahili is a lingua franca in East Africa and an official language in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. Around 100 million people speak Swahili (and many more can understand it to some extent), however it only has around 5 million native speakers. How did a small language of just 5 million people become a language that people all throughout East Africa use in order to understand each other?
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Swahili ni tamu sana 🇿🇲🇹🇿.
Learn this beautiful language and feel like a real African.
Tanzania need to learn Swahili from Kenyans
corretion: Kiswahili ni kitamu sana.
@@Cowboys1998😂😂😂😂ah please thats embarrassing
@@gabrielaghanI bet you’re from tz that grammar is top tier ❤
@@Cowboys1998how could we learn from you while you can speak what is written in your books…i have a Swahili textbook from kenya its the same with ours but non of the words you speak are from those book eg ..”njoo hapa” mnasema “kuja hapa” wakati on your own books it’s written the other way around
I'm a native Swahili speaker from Tanzania and I can say it's so fascinating to hear a non-native Swahili speaker speaking and mostly teaching Swahili. Swahili is the official language of Tanzania.
You can't be a native Kiswahili speaker and fail to see the obvious lies said in this video about the language.
Natamani ningekuwa najua kuongea hicho kiswahili kwama huyu mzungu lakini daah
@@Theflexstudiotznakuona unajua mbona
The way Swahili handles verb tenses with a single infix; -na for the present, -li for the past, -ta for the future and -me for the present perfect, is a lot simpler than any other language I know of.
Chinese basically ignores the tenses altogether. You have to infer the time from the context. Thank goodness Chinese grammar is simple, everything else about the language is very difficult for an English speaker to learn.
@@DavidGBlairCan you speak Chinese?
@@adameyes moderately well
@@DavidGBlair 那真棒哦，我刚刚开始学，希望我能向学很多。
@@adameyes I live in a small city in Yunnan province. I'm surrounded by Chinese (or Yunnanhua) but still struggle with the language.
In the late 70's when I was 4-5 we lived in Tanzania (Dar es Salaam) for 2 years. My younger brother and I both picked up some Swedish from our neighbors and Swahili from everywhere else. Even after returning to the States we were able to keep up with it because when my parents didn't want us to know what they were talking about they spoke Swahili, which was like a language class in its self. After a while that strategy didn't work any more.
😂😂😂😂 Kenyan here.
That was so strategic of your parents.
This is amazing 👏🏼 🤩 🙌🏾
😂 hii imeenda
😂😂😂 I see what you did there no more Siri at the house
🤣🤣🤣
Swahili is a beautiful language and indeed very similar to other African languages especially in South, Central and East Africa. I teach these similarities alongside my mother tongue luhya-bukusu from western Kenya on mychannel. The correlation between the local languages is mind blowing: different yet similar. Thank you for bringing this to light 👏🏾👏🏾
I am very impressed to hear this from you Julie, I am a native Swahili speaker from Tanzania. Welcome to learn this wonderful Bantu Language.
My formative years 5-12 was in Congo (DRC). Swahili was then a language "invading" the local language Otetela. I was told that even though Swahili is well understood in most of east Africa the loan word came from the colonial languages. So Swahili in English territories took English words like computer and the French territories took ordinatuer etc. Swahili being a wide spread language lends to better communication. But when this means that Otetela gradually will disappear I feel sorrow. Otetela is a tonal language and as such lends it self to be transcribed" into musical drums. The Otetela have large wedge shaped drums 1 meter long and 80 cm high acustically shaped to transmit sound in a specific direction. When I lived in Congo the sound of jungle drums was a regular thing morning and evening. Of later, they are still used ceremoniously and young boys can be seen walking along the village main street morning and evening announcing the daily news for at small tip.
So with the spread of Swahili and radio and internet the old tradition of (Tarzan's) jungle drums will disappear. I couldn't find a picture of the drum on the internet, but my sister has one so I will send a picture some time in the future.
I don't think the tetela in sankuru DRC speak kiswahili. As a congolese. There are still millions of them who still speak it. Their language is still very much around.
Swahili is an evil Arabic language also eating away my native Gĩkũyũ language!
@@EstaJeanette-nk7fj Le Swahili a été introduit au Congo par les esclavagistes arabes donc c'est une langue d'esclavage; il est composé de près de 40% de mots arabes, sans compter les mots anglais et Portugais. Bref Pour nous Congolais qui aimons la souveraineté le Lingala doit rester notre langue-mère.
Worry about your own country. We do not need your sorrow or involvement in our languages. You have done enough damage by imposing European your languages on our continent
@@Zen-p6o 40% is a gross over exergeration.Swahili is still very much bantu witth a few loan words. Thats why an arabic speaker cant understand swahili and vice versa
helllo julie, love your content from Afghanistan,
please make the next video about Pashto, it's very ancient arianic (iranic) language, it's our official language here in Afghanistan and is believed to have evolved from avestan and bactrian,
tell us it's history and everything, it would be very interesting since there are not much information about it online
please please
love you
PS: Pashtun female Kochi (nomadic) dress would look amazing on you for the thumbnail
Swahili has word from your language too. Kalamu...pencil etc
I wondered when the next JuLingo video was going to drop! Thanks Julie!
It is a fascinating language, Iam from Kenya🇰🇪🇰🇪, I am quite fluent in Swahili, It is the National language in Kenya
Yes. It is mainly spoken by watchmen & barmaids. Policemen, beggars, thieves, hawkers, housemaids, matatu touts, charcoal sellers, shoe shine boys, conmen also use the language
@@jfd12gubs45xThis mentality must be from Uganda
@@nambaga NO. I GOT IT FROM YOUR NYUKWA
@@jfd12gubs45x I knew 🤷🤷
@@jfd12gubs45x What a shameless Ugandan!
Any Kenyan here
Niko
Tuko
Tuko hapa kama kawaida.. Tushatoka maandamano leo sasa twapumzika😅
Tuko wengi
Tuko hapa
I'm glad I found your channel. Educational and very cool!
Good morning from Papua New Guinea. I enjoyed watching your contents
Uganda we are just starting to adopt Swahili in schools, at the moment most of the population use English or local language
safi sanaa, hongera kwa uchambuzi mzurii. kiswahili kitaamu saana kukiongea,kukisoma na kuandika pia
Pleasant is a great way to describe Swahili: It is very pleasing to the ear. One can only hope that it will continue to be a major language in East Africa.
I hope it continues to spread
Thank you for this one. Hakuna matata kabisa. Greetings from a burundian who speaks swahili.
Swahili fiction and poetry is also very beautiful especially when the writers decide to go crazy with it 😂
But if you don't know the language that well you may get stuck with a kamusi(dictionary) and most of the style, sarcasm nd references will fly over your head anyway.
Stories like "Kusadikika", "Lila na Fila" (a poetic retelling of a Swahili ogre/trickster story) and "Siku Njema" will leave you asking for more.
Utengano, Kilio cha Haki
I think you should try book by Shaban Robert
I am a congolese from DRC. Swahili is one of our four national languages, mainly spoken in the East part.
such a beautiful language!
Unfortunately it is taken to be a measure of illiteracy in Kenya 😂😂😂
@@jfd12gubs45x Colonization mentality.😊
@@jfd12gubs45x Really? So the Kenyans prefer a foreign language (English) over their own language rooted within their culture?
@@TheRealUsername Even Swahili is foreign!! It was the language of the slave trade
It is also the language of the satanic religion called Islam.
@@jfd12gubs45xonly by Kenyans with inferiority complex and colonized mentality. Swahili, along with English and Maths were compulsory subjects in both primary and high school.
Love the sound and simplicity of Swahili, just wish it was more useful around me
Kama unakipenda jifunze tu ipo siku kitasaidia
Your videos always make my day better! Hope we can see more languages soon!
also widely spoken in Comoros and Oman
The dialect in Comoros is called Chikomori.
@@limofootballyeah true I’m Comoros island
Jambo ndugu
I am always surprised that some word from Comoros sound kiswahili, example,in chikomori," today is a happy day",if you say it in chikomori that is kiswahili,
@@kellysmith4095 leo wusiku wa furaha : i come from comoros island
As a Swahili speaker from Tanzania, I commend this message, you really know what you're communicating, very educative message. Shukrani Kwa juhudi za kuelimisha na kusambaza Lugha hii adhim ya Kiswahili Duniani kote!
Thanks for your video. Informative and motivated as usual. Having worked and visited the Comoros archipelago, with 4 islands and a geopolitical divide since 1976, I know firsthand that the Comoros languages (shi-maoré, shi-mweli, shi-ngazija and shi-zuani) are apparently Swahili dialects. Counting them in the Swahili language family would expand it geographically at least (in numbers of locutors only in a bit more than 1 million people, not counting the diaspora). But the origin of those Comoros languages may not be as simple, so they could be a great research for you!
Wonderfully accurate video. I am a native Swahili speaker. I also speak various other languages. Nothing comes close to Swahili in melody, versatility and sweetness.
You are calm. Very good videos.
Greetings from Brazil.
I have just started to follow your channel. 👏👏👏
Great video! Definitely subscribing!
So much love from Zanzibar. Shukrani
Excellent work Julie. ❤ will you next do Old Irish ....please 🎉
The suffixes of verbs in Swahili shows inflections or verb conjugations like for example: somesha, the suffix -sha changes the verb to mean read to someone
Thank you for your latest video! I love the history you include with each language. My favorite kind of language learning. Helps us care and get emotionally invested instead of just hearing a language we have no other connection to. Thank you for all your hard work!
Iloveyou
When I was a young boy I read a Tarzan book. The apes had a language and the author without out saying it used Swahili. I assumed he made up his own language like Tolkien. He even had an extensive Ape language dictionary in the back of the book. For some reason. I retained a large portion of the vocabulary and ten years later I heard the language being used on a train in Washington State. Needless to say I was quite amazed.
This is basically a racist comment. What was the title of the Tarzan book you read and how about the author and publisher? How is it connected to kiswahili/Swahili?
@@afrakanaswahilitv5520We mzee how is it racist? Have you never seen Tarzan or read the story? In the story of Tarzan is about a boy who is raised by apes. He is saying the author gave the apes their own language which turns out was Swahili
Thank you for your extensive research on Kiswahili. You left out to mention some little influence from the Portuguese language onto our beautiful language. Words like Meza, Pesa, Leso, kopo gereza, karata, pipa, mvinyo, tarumbeta, zambarau, foronya etc
She is not Swahili speaker herself to know all those details. It's obvious she just Googled most of the things she's saying in this video, a portion of which is false.
Julia, thank you for such nice content again! It's very interesting!
Please do Mandinka! I learned it living in Senegal for a few years. I'd love to help share this beautiful language, its also got rather simple grammar and melodic vowel-heavy language. A baraka, thank you!
I don't know why i'm learning my nation language, but am here anyway😂
And you're learning it from a European, on RUclips. Go think hard about it.
Vile amesema Hakuna Matata.....is that correct? Kwa sababu sidhani kuna umoja au uwingi ya matata.....
@@MichaelMutai nafikiria alikuwa anaelezea wingi (ma) lakini Kwa Jina Matata you can't separate the word
@JuLingo thank you for your video. I want to add that the influence of the Portuguese also have an impact with words like meza (Table), peremende (Candy/Sweets) and mvinyo (Wine/Alcohol) being loan words of Portuguese origin. This was during the period where the Portuguese were looking to a sea route eastward to India to cut off the Venetian Spice traders.
Also .kalamu...pen
Sounding good as always, Julie.
this is a great presentation
"A world without Lion King and Jenga is not worth living in" - JuLi, 2024
Thank you Julie
Yoruba, Ewe, Fon, Mandinga and Uolof are also amazing languages that would create entertaining videos
You must be from Nigeria or Ghana. What about Igbo?😳
@@agnettakamugisha4984 I'm Igbo and I don't mind if he's requesting Yoruba. Why would that even be an issue?
The other theory and most likely is the Bantu originated from the Great Lakes Region. It was postulated that Proto Bantu had nit only a class prefix, but a pre-prefix. This was confirmed when Lumsaba was studied, where the full prefix has been preserved, It is found as an initial vowel in the interlacustrine languages, such as Luhya in Kenya and the Nguin Languages of Southern Africa. I have seen the noun classes in Fang of Cameroon and it shows more deviation from Lumsaba, than all the other I am familiar with and the Fang area is said to be the original homeland. This would explain why class prefixes are different in many cases from the Pronominal Concords.
Asante Sana Dada Kwa somo hilo yalugha Kiswahili nibora zaidi kufundisha.
Once you know Swahili, you know the basics of around 60% of the other East African languages
You make for a good Swahili teacher better than some native swahili speakers. Kongole, kazi kuntu.
I was today thinking of julingo and how long you didn't post a new video 😅
i think the word safari that came to english from swahili originally came from arabic /safar/ سَفَرْ originally, meaning to travel as well
Safar is Arabic ..the equivalent bantu word would be "rugendo".....this word runs from east congo to Rwanda to kenya to the south northern Zambia ....."genda..".enda....is the root word meaning go....
@@bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715sahihi
@@bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715 Umenikumbusha kwa kihehe wanauliza 'Magendo?'
Je, wewe mtaalamu wa lugha?
Exactly, see Swahili has more in common with Arabic than that other thing she keep calling "Bantu." Arabic is the single biggest vocabulary contributor to Swahili.
@@bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715 So why do ya'll like to claim Swahili is a "Bantu language" when Arabic is actually the single largest vocabulary contributor to Swahili, and Arabic isn't even indigenous to Africa?
For me it is Lingala in ouest africa the linga franca. Thanks to you I discover that Matata was also swahili. A Matete (a corner of Brazzaville) pas de Matata dans les Matiti (grass) .
DRC it’s not even part of West Africa . How lingala can be the linga Franca in West Africa stop spreading misinformation.
@@ibrahimsylla1456 I was there, the other language was Munukutuba. My mistake is Congo is considered equatorial Africa but is the west of teh continent. They were lucky enough not to met any Ibrahim!
That chat is called Ngeli. For different objects and beings indicating singular and plural form. They were eleven when we learnt in school.
Bro taught me things 😂 I didn't know about my own language 🥲😭😭😭
Do you have an idea how dangerous that is, having a foreigner from Europe "teach" you about your own language in Africa?
@@tomatosoup6440languages are fascinating. And she clearly has a passion for them. There are many native speakers that don't understand the make up and structure who are learning. Just like you don't have to know how an engine works to drive efficiently and effectively, a person can speak with out knowing why things are the way they are or where they come from. Get a grip and stop making it about her ethnicity. I speak 2 dialects and 3 languages but you wouldn't know or assume from my skin colour. So quit making your senseless comments that do nothing to enrich the conversation and only devalue your own experience.
@@RainbowHeartSpirit Oh just shut up. I didn't even finish that paragraph.
8:19 In swahili those noun classes are referred to as ngeli
Ninatoka Ethiopia. Ninajifunza Kiswhali kwa sababu ninapenda Kiswahili sana! Asante sana, JuLingo- Ninakupenda!
Fun fact: people claim Swahili is spoken in Uganda but none of us does 😂 maybe just people who want to join the army learn it
😂
Am from masaka-ug but i can write and speak Swahili
@@MutebiDickson-j2b one of a kind.
@@LK-ho1dg Dont mind that fool! Like the Ytuber said most Africans prefer to speak the Oppresor European language and this fool is a perfect Example of that. I wish oneday all Africans speak Swahili but removing that Arabic in it. Cheers from Ghana 🇬🇭
Swahili is examinable by UNEB,used in the armed forces,on the currency notes etc.
Hakuna Matata everybody!
Proud Kiswahili speaker 🥰🥰🥰😍😍❤️❤️❤️
All native the African languages including ancient Egyptian have this unique feature : The adjectives AND the numerals come after the noun they qualify or quantify.
"po" could not only indicate time, but also place. Context will always guide on usage.
I've spoken kiswahili for pretty much all my life, and honestly, this sort of "foreign" insight on the language is quite fascinating. Ive always thought giving various words genders was unnecessarily comolicating it. Turns out we've been doing it for years💀
We calk them viwakilishi(loosely translates to symbol representatives) so I've always known it to be unique to the language. I'm not a linguist though, so my logic was quite flawed, but still, its very interesting.
Good job.... from a Swahili speaker :)
Nashukuru sana kwa kukienzi lugha tukufu la kiswahili. Asante sana.
Hahaha lugha tukufu nimeipenda hiyo
I liked to listen to Swahili. ❤
Cat language is very important to learn.
There are many cats around the world.
Please talk about the Breton language 😊! Lots of love from Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks for an interesting and informative video.
it sounds like kiSwahili might be quite easy to learn,
in practice.
but it seems complex.
It's easy but only when you try
The reason that loanwords end up in the one class without a prefix, is rather obvious I think.
There are some random hits like ki-tabu (book) from Arabic qitab, which luckily sounds like it features the noun class prefix for small items (ki-), so it goes into ki- class with a reanalized stem -tabu. But most borrowed words will not start with something that is a proper class prefix. So zero class it is.
Theoretically speakers might instead supply a fitting noun class prefix for loan words each. This would be more work though, so is less likely to occur.
Te felicito por tus videos. Es muy interesante aprender de la riqueza y estructura de otros idiomas. Para mí, en lo particular, tan lejano como el swahili. Como latinoamericano, no tenemos contacto con lenguajes de África, y por lo tanto es un agrado aprender más de su estructura, verbos y sonido. Todos, bastante complejos debo decir. Me imagino tratar de hilvanar una frase y al mismo tiempo intentar recordar cómo se debe estructurar cada parte y tiempo verbal en ella, es casi un desafío mayúsculo.
Mis sinceras felicitaciones (una vez más) por lo claro, muy bien estructurado y ejemplificador video que has podido lograr, como la mayor parte de los que he visto hasta ahora.
Sigue haciéndolos ya que resultan muy interesantes e instructivos, aunque me imagino que no debe ser nada fácil investigar cada tema que vas a tocar, pero logras que cada uno sea una pequeña joya en sí mismo.
¡Excelente trabajo de investigación y muchos saludos desde Chile!
¡Gracias, lo aprecio mucho!
From an European point of view, to get a handle on Swahili can I ask one question. Is Bantu like 'Indo-european' with many branches like Germanic, Celtic, Romance, etc, or is it a 'Latin' with other languages like Zulu, Bemba, Shona, Lingala etc like French, Spanish, Italian etc to Bantu? (does that make sense?!). That is, how different is, say Bemba from Lingala, Shona, Zulu and Swahili?
Several ethnic minorities in southern Somalia speak dialects of Swahili such as the Bravanese (Reer Baraawe) and the Baajuuni. It is also spoken in parts of Oman and Yemen by the descendants of Arabians living in East Africa.
Very beautiful language.
Thank you for the educational video.
Asante sana.
As a Kenyan I agree 💯🔥🇰🇪
Mogadishu was not part of the Swahili coast but some southern somali cities can technically be considered part of swahili coast such as barawa.
Funny enough, Safari comes from the arabic root. sfr.
About hakuna, it is more exact to put it that "kuna" is "there is" or "there are". The verb "to be" is "kuwa" and it is used more in a conceptual and descriptive sense, while (i)ko-mo-po is used as "to be" in a location sense and "kuna" as general existence.
Kiswahili kitukuzwe.much love from Kenya 🇰🇪
Good work ❤❤
Kiswahili is the native language of the Swahili people. The Swahili are descendants of the first intermarriages between Arab fathers(Hadhramis and Omanis) and African Bantu mothers, including tribes such as the Bajunis and Mijikendas. Sometimes, Swahili people refer to themselves as Arabs, which is also accurate since children take their father's surname. This cultural practice is why Swahili culture mirrors Arab culture, and they adopt clan names such as Al-Nabhan and Al-Hashimi. Over time, the Swahili have intermarried with inland African communities to such an extent that contemporary Swahili people are often indistinguishable from other Africans. Kiswahili has multifaceted origins, forming a linguistic tapestry woven from Arabic influence, Bantu roots, Portuguese encounter, and Indian connections.
Our forefathers, residing on the islands of Unguja, Pemba, Mombasa(Mvita), Lamu (Amu), Mafia, and along the Eastern African coast held a rich cultural legacy. Most were proficient in reciting the Quran, reading, and writing in Arabic.
Before the arrival of Roman alphabets, they even wrote Kiswahili using Arabic script.
As colonizers ventured inland to Uganda, they encountered rulers who communicated in writing using either Arabic or Kiswahili with Arabic alphabets.
The Arabic alphabet coincides perfectly in pronunciation with the eloquence of Kiswahili. When Kiswahili vocabulary is transcribed using Roman (Latin) alphabets, certain nuances can be lost. Kiswahili has distinct sounds that don’t always align perfectly with the Roman letters. As a result, some words may be mispronounced.
Very nice l love my language kiswahili🎉
Cool!! After Russian, I will either study Swahili, or Bahasa.
learning it since 2 years. Love it but its a pain
easiest way to learn swahili is by staying around kenyans
Pole! If you want help, let me know. It shouldn't be a pain, it should be fun! And the language structure is quite simple and the rules very consistent. 😊
Ohhh pole pain tena? Umeniumiza moyo wangu!
@@azmass 😂😂
@@Debubbleization Live in Tanzania for two years
In east congo suahile is widely speken. In Oman some people speak swahili, i comores they speak a language is very close to swahili,swahili is also spoken in north of mozambique.
With all due respect that news reporter is speaking a mainland dialect. It’s not considered native. The coastal speakers are the real natives. Nairobi and Tanzania speak it different to the coastal in Mombasa, Zanzibar & Pemba
❤️ YOOOO! Nice video!!! I’m a Small Struggling Travel Channel and you really inspire me to make better content 😌 Thank you! 🙏🏻
As a British traveler who has visited both Tanzania and Kenya, I've noticed a distinct difference in how Swahili is spoken in these two countries. In Tanzania, Swahili is spoken more fluently and is the primary language of communication. In contrast, Kenyans tend to mix Swahili with English and various tribal languages, which can complicate the learning process. Therefore, if you want to learn Swahili more quickly and effectively, I highly recommend visiting Tanzania.
I propose our brothers from Africa and Asia to defend your local languages instead of european ones.
It's not easy, but if I could I would try to learn and spread around to country.
We can speak european ones, but defend local ones.
I would like to speak an indigenous language called Tupi Guarani local from Brazil.
Julie what new language have you been trying to study these days?
Swahili is spoken south somali. South Ethiopia. North Mozambique. East Congo d r. Comoros Island. . Oman
Kiswahili is spoken also in northern Mozambique, northern Zambia.
It is now in school syllabus in SA schools.
Complimenti hongera sana
she said sweet to hear then proceeds to talk about an accident 😂😂 nice content tho
Thank you 👍❤
10:37 is true to most if not all bantu languages...
Swahili has lots of words of Arabic origin, making a bit easier to understand Arabic
Arabic words are less than 1% and mainly the vocabulary part that are rarely used. If you speak Spanish you will see that it has a lot of Arabic vocabulary than swahili. Iam fluent in both Spanish and Swahili. Swahili sentence structure is 100% bantu and basically is a compilation of 22 viswahili bantu languages. The total loan words (less than 8%) are from English, Persian, Arabic, Portuguese, Chinese, Hindi, Germany and a few others. Note that every language has been impacted and also impacted other global languages. The commonly used nouns classes are 12 pairs referred to as "Ngeli za kiswahili."
Stop lying! Kiswahili is made up of more than 35% Arabic. I speak both Arabic and kiswahili and it has uncountable Arabic words. And there are even entire swahili sentences that are derived from Arabic such as sabahal kheri and sabahal nur. Some words in the swahili from Arabic are: aibu, kheri, bahati, hakika, karibu, samahani, salaman, abadan, safari, tabasamu; just to mention few
As a native speaker,This is a lie
@@ashrafismail9270Bila shaka is swahili,a full Arabic sentence,na kadhalika.
@@afrakanaswahilitv5520 You are saying Swahili is "100% Bantu" as if Bantu is a language. There is no language called "Bantu" anywhere in Africa. Arabic is a real language, Bantu is NOT. Kindly note the difference.
We know all Arabic words used in Swahili, but there is no "Bantu" word in Swahili. Maybe Swahili has a few Zulu words, Kikuyu words, or Nyamwezi words, or Chagga words, but it does NOT have "Bantu" words. You cant take words and sentence structure from something that is not a language. So stop arguing that Swahili has the words or sentence structure of Bantu.
SWAHILI IS JUST DELICIOUS! JUST BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
Na waswahili wana maneno matamu pia
Im a proud Swahili native speaker
Rwandans don't speak swahili as their official language they speak kinyarwanda however you forgot to mention that Congolese speak more swahili than rwandans !
I am Congolese and i am glad to see some one talking about the language i use in my daily life though❤
SAfi sana, nimejifunza mambo mengi. Haya wabongo tujuane
Unataka wabongo tu au waswahili
Visit Tanzania especially Zanzibar for real fluent Swahili Language....
I am Ugandan. We have a lot of local words we borrowed or that were borrowed by Swahili and viceversa. Anyone can understand the basics as Ugandans especially bantu speaking people. Also the northern people too who trade extensively with Kenya and Congo❤
I used to thing this "Bantu" brainwash was just a Kenyan thing; I was wrong. I'm just stunned to learn that many Ugandans too consider themselves "Bantu people." Now this BS has crept into the heads of Tanzanians and South Africans as well --- It just seems unstoppable.
I'm sorry to break this to you but there is no such thing as "Bantu people" anywhere in Africa. Bantu is NOT a real language group; is NOT a language; and is certainly NOT a people or ethnicity in Africa. The Bantu concept wasn't even invented by an African, to begin with.
@@tomatosoup6440 Where are you from first of all, with due respect? "Bantu" is an ethnicity of people almost having the same words or when of one tribe speaks, another understands like I am a Musoga but a muganda or Munyankole and anyone from the bantu community in Uganda will get. So will a person who knows Swahili.
This is also true for the Nilotic people in northern Uganda and Kenya. Masai and Karamajongs understand each other because of same group...
@@cultist256 Let me answer your question and break down your argument while poking a few holes in it:
📌 I am *Kenyan* and comes from a tribe that's part of this imaginary "Bantu languages" group.
📌 You referred to Bantus as an "ethnicity" and you're WRONG. An ethnicity is a group of people with common culture and descent. The so-called "Bantus" have no common culture. The cultures of the Zulu (South Africa) and Basoga (Uganda) have very little in common.
If you say Bantu is an ethnicity, you're implying that you belong to two ethnic groups that are same -- *Basoga* and *Bantu*. But we all know you can't belong to two ethnicities that are same.
Furthermore, just because you heard familiar words in Lunyankole and Luganda doesn't mean you're one of them -- they're ethnicities by their own right and both of you are certainly NOT Bantu because Bantu is NOT a language/culture/ ethnicity.
📌 Let's not even talk about *Swahili* because it borrows more words from *Arabic* than any other language. It's certainly NOT a Bantu language and you're WRONG to think you can understand it just because you're Bantu yourself. Swahili is a difficult language to learn for any African. Ugandans don't even speak or understand it yet y'all claim you're mostly Bantus.
@@tomatosoup6440 why are you negative? Read about Ugandan tribes, you will be surprised to know that once was a Bunyoro Kitala dynasty where we the people from West, central and east were then it collapsed into kingdoms. A one king of Bunyoro on his trip to the east, he left his sons there who started up the Basoga people
@@tomatosoup6440 Be positive. Stop that Kenyan negativity. ☮️