This is more than just about South Africa. Just hearing this makes me plan to study the language and encourage my daughter here in America. This is wonderful news! One Love and Language...
@Ishmael Tv .... Real Identify..... Check the DNA trace back to the first human..... Check mitochondrial Eve . If you at all you ever check DNA for your kids.....Just know the same process traced us to the first homosapiens..
Back in the day when Chinese were building the TAZARA railway, almost all of them who lived in Keko, Magurumbasi in Dar spoke fluent Swahili. I was there, and we spoke to each other in Swahili.
Wrong, the word Swahili itself is actually Arabic. Sahil means coast, the plural form is Sawahil. Ki Swahili is Arabic for " The Language of the Coasts".
@@choppacal4899 You are so right! I've been trying to make this point, but it seems some people are bent on claiming Swahili is 100% Bantu. No it is not. It is a mixer of Bantu languages, and Arabic.
@@danieljones2048 English also has a lot of lone words borrowed from other languages but that doesn't make it any less English, (having LatinLatin words won't make it Latin and having French words won't make it French) same with Swahili having some Arabic lone words doesn't make it Arabic, it's a Bantu language. Plenty of languages around the world have borrowed words from other languages, the Japanese language has some English words in it but that doesn't make it any less Japanese.
People speaking the same language really connect beyond measure..it's true, speaking kiswahili would definitely guarantee unity to all our people from around the world...bless up!!
Yes, I saw a video of Ivan Van Sertima the other day here on YT. He said Arabic script was invented when Arabia was completely Black, and it was invented by an African. ruclips.net/video/ytwVzJXY7zE/видео.html
To a reporter: its good to report something after a thorough research, arabic form a small % of swahili, bantu language constitute the large proportion of the language plus some portuguese, english etc vocabularies borrowed. Its a disgrace to say developed from Arabic
As a Scotsman in Kirriemuir I agree. I speak Kiswahili and am delighted when I find other speakers here. I have met two so far and have not even looked.
Wrong wrong wrong...Swahili is not an Arab language at all!! Please stop spreading this falsehood. Swahili is an African language that has a minute percentage of Arabic influence as it does have others as well. Please correct this misstatement.
i have been telling people that arabs influence in kiswahili language is merely 20% but 80% is all bantu ....i cant imagine even arabs brainwashed us and made us believe that kiswahili language originated from them
Thanks for correcting me. I take back what I said that, it a mixture of Bantu and Arabic language while it only has a few borrowed Arabic words among others. It mostly a Bantu language.😱
@@Tugalukeni it's entirely Bantu. Calling it Arabic is selling every Bantu language in Africa to Arabs. A bantu can easily understand and speak Kiswahili without even going to School
@@duncanocharo5171 no arabs ever say that swahili come from them lol Thats the other african people who are too close minded and tribalist who searched excuse for not learning swahili, and a lot of non educated african people just repeated that
Swahili is essentially Bantu in grammar and structure. Derived from the Sabaki languages and Mijikenda groups. The Arab input are loanwords. They are not the only ones, Hindi, Portuguese, English and more.
No, Arabs do not speak Swahili, and they do not understand Swahili. I have tried speaking to Arabs in Swahili and they do not understand a word. Please do not derail the path of one common language for African. A common language is an extremely powerful tool for the unification of a people.
Thank you but you are wrong. Kiswahili only borrowed few loan words from Arabic it is originally a Bantu language. Kiswahili borrows even from even english for example Computer = Kompyuta. But the language is unaffected and authentically remains Bantu. So surely in the next 100 years you will not say it was originally a language from Europe lol. Thanks again.
Please Kiswahili is too old to suggest that it borrowed / loan words from Arabs and more strangely English. When Arabs came to the coast of east Africa, they couldn't understand the languages of the East Africans they were interacting with. But they had to communicate, so they had to communicate with mainly the Bantu right away from Congo to the coast of east Africa. The traces of Arabic in Kiswahili was just an unintended consequences of interacting with the mainly Bantu people. Sometimes we talk as if millions of Arabs swarmed the coast of east Africa. No, they were just few hundreds or a few thousands. But they had to communicate. Very few Africans heard about a "computer in the 70's. So, Kompyuta is just recent....but no language is immune to change. Even English is keeps changing as people continue to interact......
You are wrong. Swahili is NOT 100% Bantu. It is foolish to even say so because the name of the language itself is an Arabic word. 'Swahili' means costal region in Arabic. Your comment demonstrates an ignorance of the language.
@@danieljones2048 By saying 100% he means its grammatical structure. Of course, as one of the most widely spoken languages in the world it must have loan words in its vocabulary otherwise it would die the same way Latin died. A language grows faster by borrowing from other cultures it comes into contact with. Naturally, Swahili has loan words from Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Portuguese, English, German, French. In fact even the English language is heavily influenced by Latin and Greek to a greater extent and French and German to lesser extent.
@@Dennis_2026 Si lazima nijuwe kuzungumza Kiswahili ili nijue kwamba neno Swahili ni neno la kiarabu linamaanisha ufuo wa bahari. Kadhalika lugha (an arabic word meaning language) ya Kiswahili in maneno ya Kiarabu, Kireno, Kihindi, n.k. In short, anyone who has studied the roots of Swahili will know it is not entirely Bantu.
What impacts did english, french, portugese, spanish have in africa in a positive matters after 60 years of independance? How can we as black africans can continue to promote others races cultures & languages & neglect our own languages. I think swhahili is the way to go in order to get rid of colonial languages in africa.
Absolutely! My family and I are of the diaspora (ughaibuni) and we have begun learning on our own as of 3 months ago. We love the language and are slowly replacing our daily English in our home. (We love our Afrikan Heritage!) Tunapenda Urithi wetu wa Kiafrika! Ubuntu Ma'at Hotep Ase'🙏🏿
@@maryandrew3324 some people may have this false concern that adopting Kiswahili would most likely endanger their own native languages. This is entirely wrong as I'm Kenyan and an average East African, can and do speak at least 2 or 3 languages apart from Kiswahili... Kiswahili should be spread out to every African in order to foster our own unity or at least increase our rate of interaction...Gosh wish I would say this in Kiswahili, English is not my 'mouth'! 😂😂😂
I believe that Kiswahili is the language that will unite all of Africa in the near future. It started in the east. It is now moving south and will one day be in the west of Africa. We need to communicate with one another in a common African tongue regardless of where we are from. In the United States it doesn't matter if you live in San Diego California or Portalnd Maine. The ligua Franca is ENGLISH. If other countries can do it, we can too. Let those who are interested work to make Kiswahili the national language of all black people.
If we Inter marry whin africans ourselves then learning swahili Wil b easier b4 kids learning Frm schl already parents at home wl b teaching kids the language.Ama namna ngani?
@@uniceinjehu8557 well said my brother,am studying the language as we speak,,I must admit that I kind of drop of a bit,for two reasons1 they stole my tablet with the swaili language in all it form,and I was a member of kenyalist,but for some reason I can't seem to get the link any more,but I used study at the library and practice at home on kenyalist,too much changes I guess,
Some people even claim is the most romantic language in eastern africa, especially when spoken by coastal Tribes of Tanzania or people from Mombasa in Kenya
Kiswahili is totally an African language with a few borrowed words in German (shule, skul), Hindi(Tamasha, Chai) Portuguese (pesa, leso, Meza), English, Arabic(Salaam) and Persian(Farsi). It's such a lovely and unifying language. Let us all learn it.
If swahili is made an African language i can see by 2100 more than 1/3 of the world will be talking swahili that's making it an international lunguage ask me why because by 2100 Africa population will be about 40% of the world population that's making the swahili language spoken by most people and widely spread. Karibuni tubonge kwa kiswahili waafrika wote.
This is a great injustice to my Language Kiswahili, it never originated from any interactions with the Arabs. Kiswahili originated from from a bantu language called KINGOZI in the coastal Islands of Lamu Kenya (Kingozi is still spoken by the members of the Pokomo tribe to date). The only role that the Arabs played is in the spread of the language to the rest of the region as they adopted it as the language of trade. The first interaction between Arabs and bantu Africans was with the wangozi people by a Morrocan explorer called Ibn Battuta on his way from Mecca who named them 'Sahels' meaning - people living along the Coast. It is from that the name of Language is today called Swahili and the original speakers Swahilis. Any Kiswahili speaker will testify that there are very few Arabic borrowed words in Kiswahili and even those few ones are mostly for religious purposes by Muslims, you will also find Portuguese and Indian borrowed words being that it was the Language of trade back then. But Muslim scholars are always trying to push this narrative that somehow Kiswahili just sprouted from nowhere and insisting on Arabs being somehow natives of the language. Well, how is it that Arabs themselves can't understand even 5% of Kiswahili if at all there is any connection?? Also, why is it that nearly all the other neighboring bantu related languages e.g Mijikenda, Pokomo even Comorians and Mayotte can understand Kiswahili up to around 50%? Shouldn't the Arabic be the closest language to Kiswahili then? I mean Afrikaans can understand some Dutch right?? So, why is it any different when it comes to Kiswahili?
I support this idea, Africa unite and it shall start from small efforts as a common language,then open boarders,then eventually have Au presidential elections ,free trade ,free movement,this will bring the stolen glory from Africa
If one is a bantu then one can easily understand kiswahili although there are very few words were derived from Portuguese, hindu, even arabic language due to intermarriage but it is mainly bantu east, central and southern africa. kiswahili is an African language
Swahili is a bridge language. Upon political unification we'll have to make a comparative study of the best way to establish a national language on the Afrikan continent We're not going to allow the colonial divisions (that we are going to destroy) to interdict the smooth exchange of ideas between Afrikans. We're one people, one aim, one destiny. All forms of colonial impediments to unification must be liquidated. At the present, Cheikh Anta Diop's suggestions to this in his book, Black Africa, the basis for a federated state provides us with the best option. The future development of Afrika will depend in part on our actions toward success.
I think Africans should drop the Cfa francs and adopt the Gourde the currency of the first black Republic, also the strongest currency from a black country with the exception of South Africa's Rand. Either choice would be great.
kiswahili is an African language it just incorporates some outside words as for sheng its just a version of kiswahili thats spoken mostly by us younger people with some few changes to the conventional names given to things, money etc although the school version is standardized i can understand Tanzanians and Ugandan Kiswahili well. i think it should be adopted by all African countries as a standard version for all of them.
Kiswahili originates from recorded 13 Bantu dialects (Lahaja za Kibantu) from Bantu tribes that interacted in trade with the Indian ocean coast and came into contact with the Arabs. These "lahaja" included Kingozi (Burundi; that traded leather (ngozi) goods with the coast), Kiptang'ata, Chichifundi and many others I dont remember.these days. And Kiswahili borrowed from not only Arabic, but also German, Portuguese, English and may be Spanish and French (I think the word shamba (a farm) in Kiswahili was borrowed from French's Le champ (Field)! Shule in Kiswahili was borrowed from German's "Schule" .. etc.
Now if it claims to be originated Frm Arabs. Y are they unable to speak the language ?some of us went there really communication there is a big problem .if English language is a problem there how comes swahili language b easy there for them to claim swahili originated Frm middle east
Swahili must be the official language of Afrika no other Afrikan languages come close 2 it and its easy 2 learn and a good percentage of Afrikans already speak it.
@Heru Behudety yes very easy google will help u for translations if u have nobody right now like Habari means hello or how r u and u respond Muzuri which means am good.
@Mwaniki Mwaniki but in the past the script was written in arabic, so usishangae ukisikia sisi wacoasti tukisema twaeza badala ya tunaweza, since the the letter ط (twa) was in use back then
The Bantu population are located primarily in West and South Africa but as a lingua franca of East Africa enriched with Arabic spoken from North Africa it has good credentials to be a language for the whole continent. Though it could do with its own script!
1. Most african languages except kiswahili don't have names of things that were not there in the past. Kiswahili on the other hand has a transaltion even on google and facebook meaning even the big technology words present today have their kiswahili translation. 2. Most Bantus will find kiswahili easy as its part bantu, part arabic and part Portuguese,meaning its easy to learn and its "contagious," that is if your neighbouring country speaks it you will find that people in your country will start speaking it too since its easy simple and good on our African tongue.
It is african of course, for example of Swahili being a Bantu African language, take for example of a world used in South Africa called “Ubuntu” which literally means “humanism” in Swahili is called “utu “ , you see the commonality there?
Kiswahili is the language. Swahili are the people. I hope African Americans will be interested in learning as well... It will help in bringing them closer to their roots. Just a thought.
@@jzk2020 we have been forced through colonisation to accept foreign languages and now we are moving to control our own narrative with our own language...you come and attribute it to Arab erroneously! This is simply swapping one coloniser ideology for another.
Did you just say Kiswahili is Arabic? Research has shown that at least 70% of Kiswahili comes from Bantu languages. If you are a Bantu speaker, say a Bemba speaker in Zambia, you will easily relate Bemba to Kiswahili because most of the vocabularies you will hear in Kiswahili will be very similar to those in Bemba. Plus, the structure is also the same. For example, in Bantu languages, Kiswahili included, the adjective comes after a noun, as opposed to English, for example, where the adjective precedes the noun. The word "day" is "siku" in Kiswahili, and "good" is "nzuri". To say "good day" one would say "siku nzuri" which when directly translated into English would read "day good". If you speak a Bantu language, you will agree this is true in your language too. The only truth is, among the foreign languages Kiswahili borrows from, Arabic takes the lead. Some other languages are English, German, Portuguese and Indian. Otherwise Kiswahili was being spoken along the coast of East Africa long before Arabs came there hundreds of years ago.
Arabic has nothing to do with Swahili. Some words are lone words from other languages. Most languages borrow words. English is full of lone words from French, German, Spanish, Arabic ect.
great move dear south africans. speaking a common language is one step towards a unified africa. it is a great move towards decolonization of africa. how i wish our celebrated founding fathers would have thought of this too.nice conclusion too.
I pray Ghana to in cooperate it into our curriculum soonest. Am so sad that African's as big as we are in land size and population, we don't have a brand. Even at PAP meetings they address their brothers as francophones and Anglophone and then they begin to do their colonial masters bidding.
African's inferiority complex is epic. Why do we always have to ascribe anything positive and great to other people, even when we are the authors? HOW DID THIS WOMAN COME TO BELIEVE THAT KISWAHILI IS AN ARABIC DIALECT? Oh my gosh! Just because they say it doesn't make it true.
@@lugaritzbrown2250 THE DAY IS COMING WHEN SOMEONE NEED TO TEACH U WHO IS DELUSIONAL....RE.CHECK YOUR ANCESTORS HISTORY AND HYBRID HISTORY THEN COME BACK AND TELL ME WHO IS THE BEAST
I fully support African to have Swahili as a united language just like the Chinese have Mandarain as a united language. I am a Singaporean Overseas Chinese and can communicate with global Chinese. African should not be like the Indian with more than 50 official languages and yet need to speak Colonial English as a united language. Yes I have faith in African unity and surely one day will be more prosperous than China to present their gift to Jerusalem Temple in the coming future. Surely Africa will be blessed with Swahili as a united language and will become the next economy power.
Kiswahili ndiyo lugha na silaha iliyobaki kutuleta pamoja kama waafrika daima kiswahili kitukuzwe na niwakosoe kiswahili kina idadi ya wazungumzaji milioni 300
Maneno machache yatoka kwa lugha ya kiarabu ila ukweli kiswahili ni maneno ya bantus languages in Africa.....PAMOJA KAMA JESHI LA SIAFU. AFRICA TUSHIKAMANE KAMA KUNGUNI NA GODORO CHAFU.
No it is spoken by about 200 millions people , Kenya and Tanzania alone has more than 100 million people, Uganda Rwanda Burundi and Congo has more than 150 million so that added up including some parts of Malawi .
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This is more than just about South Africa. Just hearing this makes me plan to study the language and encourage my daughter here in America. This is wonderful news! One Love and Language...
Hey I'm curious. Have you begun to study the language?
Nzuri Sana!!! 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💯💯💯
Me too!
Swahili is of Bantu origin,if you are Bantu you can already understand 60% of Swahili without learning example Bantu -means people
In Swahili-watu
@Ishmael Tv do you have citation for your comment? I want to learn it.
I'd suppose all languages have some African origin
Yesss
@Ishmael Tv totally mistaken... Bantu is a word .....
So common in all our Bantu land
@Ishmael Tv ....
Real Identify..... Check the DNA trace back to the first human.....
Check mitochondrial Eve .
If you at all you ever check DNA for your kids.....Just know the same process traced us to the first homosapiens..
Congratulations , Africa is moving forward, Chiness must learn also Swaili once they are in Africa
True!
Yes, that's how you dominate the world by spreading your customs.
We have few who speak swahili. Swahili is also taught in American and some parts of Europe universities
We don't need Chinese to learn they can do if they wish. One thing I know is Africa will rise again
Back in the day when Chinese were building the TAZARA railway, almost all of them who lived in Keko, Magurumbasi in Dar spoke fluent Swahili. I was there, and we spoke to each other in Swahili.
Swahili has like a handful of Arabic words.. maybe like 10 or so. That doesn’t make it Arabic
Correct
Don't mind her
Wrong, the word Swahili itself is actually Arabic. Sahil means coast, the plural form is Sawahil. Ki Swahili is Arabic for " The Language of the Coasts".
@@choppacal4899 You are so right! I've been trying to make this point, but it seems some people are bent on claiming Swahili is 100% Bantu. No it is not. It is a mixer of Bantu languages, and Arabic.
@@danieljones2048 English also has a lot of lone words borrowed from other languages but that doesn't make it any less English, (having LatinLatin words won't make it Latin and having French words won't make it French) same with Swahili having some Arabic lone words doesn't make it Arabic, it's a Bantu language.
Plenty of languages around the world have borrowed words from other languages, the Japanese language has some English words in it but that doesn't make it any less Japanese.
Africans should learn Swahili around the world.
People speaking the same language really connect beyond measure..it's true, speaking kiswahili would definitely guarantee unity to all our people from around the world...bless up!!
It’s the main language that we use as a reference in the black community in the US for years so this is really good news to hear.
Agreed, Our Afro Diaspora must learn Kiswahili.
Umoja wa Afrika
@@abdulsharif6541 African unity👍🏾
Please stop just repeating what arabs claim.
Arabic comes from Africans just like all Semitic languages.
Swahili is an african language.
FACT!
Yes, I saw a video of Ivan Van Sertima the other day here on YT.
He said Arabic script was invented when Arabia was completely Black, and it was invented by an African. ruclips.net/video/ytwVzJXY7zE/видео.html
To a reporter: its good to report something after a thorough research, arabic form a small % of swahili, bantu language constitute the large proportion of the language plus some portuguese, english etc vocabularies borrowed. Its a disgrace to say developed from Arabic
its true swahili is mixed of bantu language Arabic and portugeese im from eastern africa its my language
I agree, let her look at this: ruclips.net/video/1NceCl8KPlM/видео.html
As a Scotsman in Kirriemuir I agree. I speak Kiswahili and am delighted when I find other speakers here. I have met two so far and have not even looked.
The Swahili language's spoken by many countries in Africa. Swahili's also a language of the business.
Optional, I think that's not enough it should be made compulsory
Wrong wrong wrong...Swahili is not an Arab language at all!! Please stop spreading this falsehood. Swahili is an African language that has a minute percentage of Arabic influence as it does have others as well. Please correct this misstatement.
i have been telling people that arabs influence in kiswahili language is merely 20% but 80% is all bantu ....i cant imagine even arabs brainwashed us and made us believe that kiswahili language originated from them
it came from a Kenyan Bantu called Kingozi. Arabs named the Ngozi people sawahil, meaning the Waswahili(coast people)
Thanks for correcting me. I take back what I said that, it a mixture of Bantu and Arabic language while it only has a few borrowed Arabic words among others. It mostly a Bantu language.😱
@@Tugalukeni it's entirely Bantu. Calling it Arabic is selling every Bantu language in Africa to Arabs. A bantu can easily understand and speak Kiswahili without even going to School
@@duncanocharo5171 no arabs ever say that swahili come from them lol
Thats the other african people who are too close minded and tribalist who searched excuse for not learning swahili, and a lot of non educated african people just repeated that
Malema julius for the presdent of Afrika..viva juju !
Swahili is essentially Bantu in grammar and structure. Derived from the Sabaki languages and Mijikenda groups. The Arab input are loanwords. They are not the only ones, Hindi, Portuguese, English and more.
You are correct comrade, uko Sawa kabisa rafiki
Madam... don't give those murderous Arabs more shine. It's slightly influenced by them. But its more influenced by local tribes from East Africa.
#FACT
😂😂😂
No, Arabs do not speak Swahili, and they do not understand Swahili. I have tried speaking to Arabs in Swahili and they do not understand a word. Please do not derail the path of one common language for African. A common language is an extremely powerful tool for the unification of a people.
Thank you but you are wrong. Kiswahili only borrowed few loan words from Arabic it is originally a Bantu language. Kiswahili borrows even from even english for example Computer =
Kompyuta. But the language is unaffected and authentically remains Bantu.
So surely in the next 100 years you will not say it was originally a language from Europe lol. Thanks again.
Please Kiswahili is too old to suggest that it borrowed / loan words from Arabs and more strangely English. When Arabs came to the coast of east Africa, they couldn't understand the languages of the East Africans they were interacting with. But they had to communicate, so they had to communicate with mainly the Bantu right away from Congo to the coast of east Africa. The traces of Arabic in Kiswahili was just an unintended consequences of interacting with the mainly Bantu people. Sometimes we talk as if millions of Arabs swarmed the coast of east Africa. No, they were just few hundreds or a few thousands. But they had to communicate. Very few Africans heard about a "computer in the 70's. So, Kompyuta is just recent....but no language is immune to change. Even English is keeps changing as people continue to interact......
I believe Computer in Swahili is tarakilishi.
Swahili is 100% Bantu language stop that myth from now. All the way from Congo DR kutokeya Congo
You are wrong. Swahili is NOT 100% Bantu. It is foolish to even say so because the name of the language itself is an Arabic word. 'Swahili' means costal region in Arabic. Your comment demonstrates an ignorance of the language.
@@danieljones2048 it is 💯 Bantu
Wacha kutudanganya hapa na labda hujuwi kuongea Swahili
@@danieljones2048 By saying 100% he means its grammatical structure. Of course, as one of the most widely spoken languages in the world it must have loan words in its vocabulary otherwise it would die the same way Latin died. A language grows faster by borrowing from other cultures it comes into contact with. Naturally, Swahili has loan words from Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Portuguese, English, German, French. In fact even the English language is heavily influenced by Latin and Greek to a greater extent and French and German to lesser extent.
@@danieljones2048 the Arabic language comes from Africa in the Ethiopian region from what I heard and read
@@Dennis_2026 Si lazima nijuwe kuzungumza Kiswahili ili nijue kwamba neno Swahili ni neno la kiarabu linamaanisha ufuo wa bahari. Kadhalika lugha (an arabic word meaning language) ya Kiswahili in maneno ya Kiarabu, Kireno, Kihindi, n.k. In short, anyone who has studied the roots of Swahili will know it is not entirely Bantu.
What impacts did english, french, portugese, spanish have in africa in a positive matters after 60 years of independance? How can we as black africans can continue to promote others races cultures & languages & neglect our own languages.
I think swhahili is the way to go in order to get rid of colonial languages in africa.
Absolutely! My family and I are of the diaspora (ughaibuni) and we have begun learning on our own as of 3 months ago. We love the language and are slowly replacing our daily English in our home. (We love our Afrikan Heritage!) Tunapenda Urithi wetu wa Kiafrika!
Ubuntu Ma'at Hotep Ase'🙏🏿
Ubarikiwe saana ndugu au Dada
Ngugu za Amonra ziwe nanyi na Maat iwaongoze muweze kumwona bwana hotep
Im proud of yall from America
Supported by Nigerians
Bethrand Ikechukwu you speak for all Nigerians?
For sure, I know my people and my people knows me
@@bethrandikechukwu3595 i don't know you. Who are you?
Tee eL don't mind that one
@@maryandrew3324 some people may have this false concern that adopting Kiswahili would most likely endanger their own native languages. This is entirely wrong as I'm Kenyan and an average East African, can and do speak at least 2 or 3 languages apart from Kiswahili... Kiswahili should be spread out to every African in order to foster our own unity or at least increase our rate of interaction...Gosh wish I would say this in Kiswahili, English is not my 'mouth'! 😂😂😂
100% support this.. It should adopted by all African countries
I believe that Kiswahili is the language that will unite all of Africa in the near future. It started in the east. It is now moving south and will one day be in the west of Africa. We need to communicate with one another in a common African tongue regardless of where we are from. In the United States it doesn't matter if you live in San Diego California or Portalnd Maine. The ligua Franca is ENGLISH. If other countries can do it, we can too. Let those who are interested work to make Kiswahili the national language of all black people.
Amen , we'll said
If we Inter marry whin africans ourselves then learning swahili Wil b easier b4 kids learning Frm schl already parents at home wl b teaching kids the language.Ama namna ngani?
@@uniceinjehu8557 well said my brother,am studying the language as we speak,,I must admit that I kind of drop of a bit,for two reasons1 they stole my tablet with the swaili language in all it form,and I was a member of kenyalist,but for some reason I can't seem to get the link any more,but I used study at the library and practice at home on kenyalist,too much changes I guess,
West Africa will be Hausa
Egypt just recently adopted Kiswahili as a Co-Official language, so now it's in the North! 💯
Congrats Yemi Alade,for singing in Kiswahili,teach the Nigerians the language.
Never realized it was such a lovely sounding language!
Some people even claim is the most romantic language in eastern africa, especially when spoken by coastal Tribes of Tanzania or people from Mombasa in Kenya
One Afrika! Swahili is an African language, its not influenced or taken from Arabic nor by Arabs.
Swahili is maybe 10 percent Arabic the larger part is Bantu, some tiny percent English and other language
Kiswahili is totally an African language with a few borrowed words in German (shule, skul), Hindi(Tamasha, Chai) Portuguese (pesa, leso, Meza), English, Arabic(Salaam) and Persian(Farsi). It's such a lovely and unifying language. Let us all learn it.
Swahili is an African bantu language
Nimekupenda presenter....
Ahsante sana,kutoka Lusaka Zambia
I am one proud native swahili from mombasa kenya.
Yes of course it's good we afrikan to stop learning this bested language we must do it fast
Jambo karibu tusome Kiswahili
People have no idea how importance the language is,
Kiswahili will be the American African language don't call us African American... We are not Americans we are Africans in America
Mimi ni Mzanzibari nimefurahi sana kuskia kiswahili kiwe lugha ya Taifa Africa yote asanteni
If swahili is made an African language i can see by 2100 more than 1/3 of the world will be talking swahili that's making it an international lunguage ask me why because by 2100 Africa population will be about 40% of the world population that's making the swahili language spoken by most people and widely spread. Karibuni tubonge kwa kiswahili waafrika wote.
hongera,kiswahili chako, ni sanifu.
This is a great injustice to my Language Kiswahili, it never originated from any interactions with the Arabs. Kiswahili originated from from a bantu language called KINGOZI in the coastal Islands of Lamu Kenya (Kingozi is still spoken by the members of the Pokomo tribe to date). The only role that the Arabs played is in the spread of the language to the rest of the region as they adopted it as the language of trade. The first interaction between Arabs and bantu Africans was with the wangozi people by a Morrocan explorer called Ibn Battuta on his way from Mecca who named them 'Sahels' meaning - people living along the Coast. It is from that the name of Language is today called Swahili and the original speakers Swahilis. Any Kiswahili speaker will testify that there are very few Arabic borrowed words in Kiswahili and even those few ones are mostly for religious purposes by Muslims, you will also find Portuguese and Indian borrowed words being that it was the Language of trade back then. But Muslim scholars are always trying to push this narrative that somehow Kiswahili just sprouted from nowhere and insisting on Arabs being somehow natives of the language. Well, how is it that Arabs themselves can't understand even 5% of Kiswahili if at all there is any connection?? Also, why is it that nearly all the other neighboring bantu related languages e.g Mijikenda, Pokomo even Comorians and Mayotte can understand Kiswahili up to around 50%? Shouldn't the Arabic be the closest language to Kiswahili then? I mean Afrikaans can understand some Dutch right?? So, why is it any different when it comes to Kiswahili?
True, I don't know why people keep on claiming this lie.
Your Swahili is amazing, very accurate
I'm thinking about moving to Senegal or Rwanda but I'm leaning toward Rwanda because I want my kids to learn swahili.
I support this idea, Africa unite and it shall start from small efforts as a common language,then open boarders,then eventually have Au presidential elections ,free trade ,free movement,this will bring the stolen glory from Africa
Woow u have spoke it very well Linet,keep it up all the way from Kenya
Iam not interested in Swahili,being pushed down my throat. I have been able to communicate effectively in english with the rest of the Africans.
Yes South Africa definitely needs more languages. That will surely help to unite people.
Yess yesss Mzansi put swahili in your national anthem. You know what i mean. And indeed she finished in style
Wow that's wonderful, hopefully we will finally speak 1 language. I look forward to see other countries follow.
If one is a bantu then one can easily understand kiswahili although there are very few words were derived from Portuguese, hindu, even arabic language due to intermarriage but it is mainly bantu east, central and southern africa. kiswahili is an African language
Swahili is a bridge language. Upon political unification we'll have to make a comparative study of the best way to establish a national language on the Afrikan continent We're not going to allow the colonial divisions (that we are going to destroy) to interdict the smooth exchange of ideas between Afrikans. We're one people, one aim, one destiny. All forms of colonial impediments to unification must be liquidated.
At the present, Cheikh Anta Diop's suggestions to this in his book, Black Africa, the basis for a federated state provides us with the best option.
The future development of Afrika will depend in part on our actions toward success.
I think Africans should drop the Cfa francs and adopt the Gourde the currency of the first black Republic, also the strongest currency from a black country with the exception of South Africa's Rand. Either choice would be great.
My brother is a process. Seek yee the common language first and all other thinks shall fall in their rightful places. Remember the tower of Babel.
The ending there made me so happy. Great job.
Ninampenda Afrika.
Tafadhali hebu kuja pamoja Kama moja ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
kiswahili is an African language it just incorporates some outside words as for sheng its just a version of kiswahili thats spoken mostly by us younger people with some few changes to the conventional names given to things, money etc although the school version is standardized i can understand Tanzanians and Ugandan Kiswahili well. i think it should be adopted by all African countries as a standard version for all of them.
I love the ending made my adrenaline rush
Kiswahili originates from recorded 13 Bantu dialects (Lahaja za Kibantu) from Bantu tribes that interacted in trade with the Indian ocean coast and came into contact with the Arabs. These "lahaja" included Kingozi (Burundi; that traded leather (ngozi) goods with the coast), Kiptang'ata, Chichifundi and many others I dont remember.these days. And Kiswahili borrowed from not only Arabic, but also German, Portuguese, English and may be Spanish and French (I think the word shamba (a farm) in Kiswahili was borrowed from French's Le champ (Field)! Shule in Kiswahili was borrowed from German's "Schule" .. etc.
Now if it claims to be originated Frm Arabs. Y are they unable to speak the language ?some of us went there really communication there is a big problem .if English language is a problem there how comes swahili language b easy there for them to claim swahili originated Frm middle east
The omani arabs speak swahili. However swahili is mainly bantu language with loan words from Arabic, Hindi, and portuguese.
It's time we leave the colonial languages. Bless Africa
Swahili must be the official language of Afrika no other Afrikan languages come close 2 it and its easy 2 learn and a good percentage of Afrikans already speak it.
@Heru Behudety yes very easy google will help u for translations if u have nobody right now like Habari means hello or how r u and u respond Muzuri which means am good.
asante sanaa
The ending was perfect 👌
Yes!
If you're bantu, you need 10 lessons to understand, speak, read and write Swahili.
@Mwaniki Mwaniki but in the past the script was written in arabic, so usishangae ukisikia sisi wacoasti tukisema twaeza badala ya tunaweza, since the the letter ط (twa) was in use back then
@Mwaniki Mwaniki karibu
Good indeed! Vizuri sana hongera mtangazaji
The Bantu population are located primarily in West and South Africa but as a lingua franca of East Africa enriched with Arabic spoken from North Africa it has good credentials to be a language for the whole continent. Though it could do with its own script!
Viva Africa!!! One language Is a good policy to UNITE Africa.
1. Most african languages except kiswahili don't have names of things that were not there in the past. Kiswahili on the other hand has a transaltion even on google and facebook meaning even the big technology words present today have their kiswahili translation.
2. Most Bantus will find kiswahili easy as its part bantu, part arabic and part Portuguese,meaning its easy to learn and its "contagious," that is if your neighbouring country speaks it you will find that people in your country will start speaking it too since its easy simple and good on our African tongue.
It is african of course, for example of Swahili being a Bantu African language, take for example of a world used in South Africa called “Ubuntu” which literally means “humanism” in Swahili is called “utu “ , you see the commonality there?
U even know better than some people. Ur finishing is lovely.
What a step taken by south African Government! It is a beautiful language. Karibuni tusemesane pamoja.
Kiswahili is the language.
Swahili are the people.
I hope African Americans will be interested in learning as well... It will help in bringing them closer to their roots. Just a thought.
@Le Colosse facts
Mimi ni Marekani Mfrika, Nimeanza kujifunza Kiswahili katika 2018 na bado jifunza ya... Amani! 💪🏿💯
@@demondburgess7514 HONGERA...HILO NI JAMBO LA KUFURAHIA!
This is a great idea. 💓💓💓
A wonderful suggestion!
This has far reaching implications that I don't think you realise.
Go on.... tell us more.
@@jzk2020 we have been forced through colonisation to accept foreign languages and now we are moving to control our own narrative with our own language...you come and attribute it to Arab erroneously! This is simply swapping one coloniser ideology for another.
Did you just say Kiswahili is Arabic?
Research has shown that at least 70% of Kiswahili comes from Bantu languages. If you are a Bantu speaker, say a Bemba speaker in Zambia, you will easily relate Bemba to Kiswahili because most of the vocabularies you will hear in Kiswahili will be very similar to those in Bemba.
Plus, the structure is also the same. For example, in Bantu languages, Kiswahili included, the adjective comes after a noun, as opposed to English, for example, where the adjective precedes the noun. The word "day" is "siku" in Kiswahili, and "good" is "nzuri". To say "good day" one would say "siku nzuri" which when directly translated into English would read "day good". If you speak a Bantu language, you will agree this is true in your language too.
The only truth is, among the foreign languages Kiswahili borrows from, Arabic takes the lead. Some other languages are English, German, Portuguese and Indian. Otherwise Kiswahili was being spoken along the coast of East Africa long before Arabs came there hundreds of years ago.
how similar is kiSwahali to, say isiZulu? Are there similar words? Can they understand each another?
Arabic has nothing to do with Swahili. Some words are lone words from other languages. Most languages borrow words. English is full of lone words from French, German, Spanish, Arabic ect.
A very good start for unity. Next we must build in a monetary value since most of our people only value money.
Who is selling the idea of Swahili as an African language of unification? .
great move dear south africans. speaking a common language is one step towards a unified africa. it is a great move towards decolonization of africa. how i wish our celebrated founding fathers would have thought of this too.nice conclusion too.
I pray Ghana to in cooperate it into our curriculum soonest. Am so sad that African's as big as we are in land size and population, we don't have a brand. Even at PAP meetings they address their brothers as francophones and Anglophone and then they begin to do their colonial masters bidding.
Beautiful
This is great news, Ni kweli, Umoja ni Nguvu.
Tujifunze pamoja hii lugha.let's learn together this language
Asante sana Bhati Linet nahayo ulio Tu andalia.
Closing style nimeipenda sana
How many official languages do SA really have to have?
Swahili forAfrica, one up 👆
Swahili should be taught not only in Africa but throughout the African diaspora.
Swahili is a trade language like Japonese, German and English. Dar es Salaam, Tokyo, Frankfurt and London are important trade cities.
Umenifurahisha sana,umeongea vizuri,UMOJA NI NGUVU UTENGANO NI UDHAIFU
African's inferiority complex is epic. Why do we always have to ascribe anything positive and great to other people, even when we are the authors? HOW DID THIS WOMAN COME TO BELIEVE THAT KISWAHILI IS AN ARABIC DIALECT? Oh my gosh! Just because they say it doesn't make it true.
hiyo iko sawa ...endeleeni vivyo hivyo waafrika wenzangu...MZUNGU AKEMEWE KATIKA JINA LA MAULANA
Mzungu pia ni mtoto wa mungu.
@@lugaritzbrown2250 MZUNGU IS A HYBRID..MIXER OF ORIGINAL HUMAN AND THE BEAST
@@decoloniz_afro your Simply delusional just review what your writing those kind of statements are what makes us Africans behind..... Wrong thinking.
@@lugaritzbrown2250 THE DAY IS COMING WHEN SOMEONE NEED TO TEACH U WHO IS DELUSIONAL....RE.CHECK YOUR ANCESTORS HISTORY AND HYBRID HISTORY THEN COME BACK AND TELL ME WHO IS THE BEAST
@@lugaritzbrown2250 Know your enemies. Afrika ni ya Waafrika
Since it has unite more than 140 tribes in Tanzania
I believe it will unite Africa
research more firmly before you make a statement like that about swahili!
I fully support African to have Swahili as a united language just like the Chinese have Mandarain as a united language. I am a Singaporean Overseas Chinese and can communicate with global Chinese. African should not be like the Indian with more than 50 official languages and yet need to speak Colonial English as a united language. Yes I have faith in African unity and surely one day will be more prosperous than China to present their gift to Jerusalem Temple in the coming future. Surely Africa will be blessed with Swahili as a united language and will become the next economy power.
We can make it happen by teaching it to our babies, and speaking it whenever and wherever we are without fault, shame, or a care... 💯
South Africa's Sho Madjozi is fluent in both Swahili and she got. So I think.
In cost somalia and noth eastern somalia they also speak swaahili easy and nice languages i learn with 3 month no going to school
But most Somalis deny this, I wonder why? They claim only Somali is spoken in Somalia.
Swaihili is bantu not arabic language
Kiswahili ndiyo lugha na silaha iliyobaki kutuleta pamoja kama waafrika daima kiswahili kitukuzwe na niwakosoe kiswahili kina idadi ya wazungumzaji milioni 300
Umoja Ni Nguvu
we didint mix swahili with english.....we mix it with our own indegenous languages and can still be able to speak fluent swahili not that we forgot it
Good move! Language transmits culture. Most people who speak English unknowingly are into English culture!
Maneno machache yatoka kwa lugha ya kiarabu ila ukweli kiswahili ni maneno ya bantus languages in Africa.....PAMOJA KAMA JESHI LA SIAFU.
AFRICA TUSHIKAMANE KAMA KUNGUNI NA GODORO CHAFU.
No it is spoken by about 200 millions people , Kenya and Tanzania alone has more than 100 million people, Uganda Rwanda Burundi and Congo has more than 150 million so that added up including some parts of Malawi .