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  • @Wikitongues
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  • @winterland122977
    @winterland122977 4 года назад +84

    I love the sound of this language.

  • @blackchild8887
    @blackchild8887 2 года назад +18

    I'm from South Africa and I can speak 5 languages from South Africa, this is amazing that I can hear 70% of what she is saying.
    It's similar to TshiVenda

  • @oolydnam
    @oolydnam 4 года назад +62

    Beautiful language, sung with a beautiful voice!

  • @danielapinto7914
    @danielapinto7914 4 года назад +41

    I got the chills! It's amazing how, even when we don't understand the words, we can feel so connected to her song. At least I do! It's so calming!

  • @angelaurelio7907
    @angelaurelio7907 4 года назад +34

    I think african language are so melodic.

  • @lwasampijjalawrence7498
    @lwasampijjalawrence7498 3 года назад +19

    Luganda is very close to kinyanja. I closely understood whatever you were saying. Love from Buganda.

    • @afrisciencetec6585
      @afrisciencetec6585 2 года назад +2

      IM FROM ZIMBABWE AND I HEARD ALMOST EVERTHING.I SPEAK SHONA

  • @Homoclassicus
    @Homoclassicus 4 года назад +32

    Bantu languages are so beautiful and elegant! I really think African countries should promote the formal education and written use of their native languages much more than most of them do nowadays. I get that they need a lingua franca that sounds "neutral", usually that being a former colonial European language, but they should strive to have at least 1 or 2 major national languages of indigenous extraction. They're really beautiful and deeply rooted in the local cultural heritage, so it'd be a shame if they didn't develop to become major formal languages, with a rich local literature and so on, in the future.

    • @loweni7460
      @loweni7460 3 месяца назад

      I highly agree I used to want to learn some foreign European language but when I began to awaken to our greatness as black people I ditched those ambitions I wanted to learn more Bantu languages

  • @tomtomtomato1
    @tomtomtomato1 4 года назад +15

    Happy she decided to sing!

  • @nangithia
    @nangithia Год назад +7

    Amazing! I am Kenyan and I understood almost all of the introduction and the song too!
    "Aka kanyimbo koyamba ni kanyimbo kotonthoza mwana ngati alira" - Chichewa.
    In colloquial Kiswahili:
    "Haka kanyimbo naimba ni kanyimbo ka kutuliza mwana wakati a(na)lia"
    We are family!

    • @bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715
      @bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715 Год назад +1

      I got everything as well …its kind of a mix of Swahili kikuyu

    • @allanmagala345
      @allanmagala345 Год назад

      Me too, I understood almost everything, the language sounds like my mother tongue, LUGANDA…..

  • @mutumbajrsulaiman9429
    @mutumbajrsulaiman9429 3 года назад +13

    Am from Uganda but I can understand what she is singing about
    She is singing about a child we who is crying cuz of hunger and wanting to sleep

    • @Zaitoon55
      @Zaitoon55 3 года назад +3

      Honestly I find this interesting. I'm from Uganda too. Sounds like Lusoga. lol. Its interesting how a dialect from South Africa can have similarities to a dialect in E.Africa. It may be that Bantu tribes have a common origin.

    • @listenup2882
      @listenup2882 3 года назад +2

      @@Zaitoon55 Of course they do that's why they are grouped into the family of languages called Bantu languages. Bantu is a language family.

  • @allanmagala345
    @allanmagala345 Год назад +2

    The language is like many Bantu languages in Uganda, including Luganda and Lusoga wow, Africans should unite, I could understand almost everything yet I have never heard the language before.. this is so amazing

  • @Morgan_Faraday_Makaka
    @Morgan_Faraday_Makaka Год назад +3

    I'm a Luhya from Kenya and this language sounds like a mixture of both Luhya and Swahili.... Proud Bantu
    Abantu bosi ni bahla/All Bantus are just one

    • @loweni7460
      @loweni7460 3 месяца назад

      Yes we are one wait til you realise we are also the 12 tribes of Israel spoken of in the bible

  • @ezekielsmith3571
    @ezekielsmith3571 4 года назад +23

    I kept thinking there was a bug on my screen

  • @ANTSEMUT1
    @ANTSEMUT1 4 года назад +11

    this is a beautiful language.

  • @Almightservant
    @Almightservant 4 года назад +6

    African people have the DNA for music! A love it!

  • @SamuelGichaga
    @SamuelGichaga 4 года назад +12

    Chi Chewa seems very close to Swahili. In Swahili we would have said, "mpelekeni kwa mamake (take the baby to the mother) aache kulia (to stop crying). Mwana kalila is transalted as mwana analia (baby is crying).

    • @Mehrunissah93
      @Mehrunissah93 4 года назад +1

      Are you able to translate the entire lullaby from Chichewa to English?

    • @SamuelGichaga
      @SamuelGichaga 4 года назад +2

      @@Mehrunissah93 No. I cannot manage to do that. I can only pick few words which are close to Swahili.

    • @Phakamani8
      @Phakamani8 3 года назад

      Good day, sir. Is the surname Mwamusse Swahili?

    • @SamuelGichaga
      @SamuelGichaga 3 года назад +1

      @@Phakamani8 not sure of the pronunciation, but 'muamushe' in swahili is "wake him/her up". 's' in swahili is pronounced as in 's'chool (i.e. school, something etc). 'sh' is pronounced as in 'sh'oe (i.e. a pair of shoe).😂😂

    • @Phakamani8
      @Phakamani8 3 года назад +1

      @@SamuelGichaga 😂thank you, I am getting somewhere with my research🙏🏿. But have you ever heard of the surname Mwamusse? I'm from South Africa and I've recently found out that my grandfather's surname was Mwamusse, now I'm trying to trace it's origins.

  • @Dawghome
    @Dawghome 4 года назад +11

    I enjoyed that, especially being sung 🤗 to! 😁💞

  • @DeadbyDaylightDUO
    @DeadbyDaylightDUO 4 года назад +12

    Beautiful singing and fantastic language! 💯

  • @DewyPeters96
    @DewyPeters96 4 года назад +74

    I think Bantu languages are the most beautiful on Earth, far more so than French or Italian

    • @eb.3764
      @eb.3764 4 года назад +2

      yesss, so much romanticism on the latin languages

    • @TnboinChi45
      @TnboinChi45 4 года назад +11

      Very true. The Xhosa language is my language

    • @catchyname5403
      @catchyname5403 4 года назад +2

      @@TnboinChi45 I absolutely love the sound of the Xhosa language💚
      I agree with OP these language are so romantic and beautiful. I follow African Xhosa on here for sleep ASMR and I drift to a lovely sleep listening to your beautiful language often.

    • @jeyjo325
      @jeyjo325 4 года назад +1

      Hahahahaha. This is your think, not universal! Italian is most beautiful

    • @feliz5919
      @feliz5919 3 года назад +4

      @@jeyjo325 “Italian is most beautiful” is also just what you personally think/your opinion, not exactly a universal opinion, either. just because you’re clearly biased to the whole “European languages are the best” thing, doesn’t mean other people can’t have different opinions than you. I personally love Bantu languages more than European languages, because the sound of Italian and many other European languages irritate me (but all languages are unique and beautiful in their own way). People have other opinions.

  • @randomvintagefilm273
    @randomvintagefilm273 4 года назад +7

    Such a pretty lady too

  • @whukriede
    @whukriede 4 года назад +5

    How lovely, I'm totally enchanted and actually in tears.

  • @Otaku2803
    @Otaku2803 3 года назад +5

    My cat really enjoyed the song in the beginning.

  • @clauza03
    @clauza03 3 года назад +3

    Wow! Both songs too me back to my childhood 🇿🇲

  • @GloriamMonarchia
    @GloriamMonarchia 4 года назад +6

    That's why her songs were so *soothing. The first one was a lullaby. Here I was calm, laying on my bed and enjoying it. Everything makes sense now :)

    • @krystingrant6292
      @krystingrant6292 2 года назад +1

      Lol I started falling asleep ♥️

    • @GloriamMonarchia
      @GloriamMonarchia 2 года назад

      @@krystingrant6292 I hope you got a wonderful rest out of it! 😊❤️
      BTW, your reply made me discover a typo in my initial comment that stayed there for a year... Thank you so much for giving me the chance to fix it! Be well, dear!

  • @dominiki7581
    @dominiki7581 Год назад +2

    Sounds alot like Gikuyu from central Kenya

  • @aasouza424
    @aasouza424 4 года назад +5

    Amazing. So beautiful.

  • @listenup2882
    @listenup2882 3 года назад +1

    This language sounds lovely. Watching from Saint Lucia 🇱🇨.

  • @AlejandroGabrielcasco
    @AlejandroGabrielcasco Год назад

    BELLISIMA VOZ Y BELLISIMA MEMORIA DE LA COMUNIDAD

  • @Almightservant
    @Almightservant 4 года назад +4

    👏👏👏👏😍😍😍😍😍 greetings from Brazil!

  • @RandomClips01070
    @RandomClips01070 4 года назад +4

    Beautiful video ! ! ~

  • @etherealmist76
    @etherealmist76 4 года назад +2

    Just gorgeous

  • @sarahssebowa7851
    @sarahssebowa7851 4 месяца назад

    I'm from Uganda🇺🇬, Buganda surprisingly understanding the song

  • @paulbeauregard2603
    @paulbeauregard2603 4 года назад +4

    Very beautiful indeed...

  • @linguaphilly
    @linguaphilly 4 года назад +3

    I would learn and sing this to this to my child if I had one :)

  • @gertvirtualtechtelecom
    @gertvirtualtechtelecom Год назад +1

    Someone said my mothertongue is quite similar to Chichewa and I totally agree am from coastal Kenya looking for a Mchewa friend 🥰

  • @AllanEddye
    @AllanEddye 4 года назад +5

    Que lindo, e que linda!

  • @africa3627
    @africa3627 3 года назад +2

    I love the bantu languages

  • @deonlionheart
    @deonlionheart 4 года назад +1

    Everything about this is so beautiful. Africa unite! ☮️❤️

  • @allanmagala345
    @allanmagala345 Год назад

    “Sounds like the baby is crying because it’s hungry, baby is crying because it’s sleepy”

  • @felixketwo440
    @felixketwo440 Год назад +1

    I speak Kiswahili from Kenya i can listen to the first song. The language is actually the same

  • @braulioteixeira116
    @braulioteixeira116 Год назад

    So lovely!

  • @BulletTheEnforcer
    @BulletTheEnforcer 2 года назад

    What a beautiful language! Thank you for sharing.

  • @marvellbgry
    @marvellbgry 2 года назад

    Beautiful! I love you Africa. I love you Yasharel! Selah

  • @havingagr8time
    @havingagr8time 4 года назад +1

    Love this video!

  • @quranreader7616
    @quranreader7616 3 года назад +1

    nice vedeo
    beatiful language

  •  4 года назад +3

    💗

  • @ISO_-
    @ISO_- 4 года назад +5

    Thanks!

    • @kristentcherneshoff8118
      @kristentcherneshoff8118 4 года назад +1

      Love your RUclips name :D

    • @ISO_-
      @ISO_- 4 года назад

      Kristen Tcherneshoff Thank you, I'd have gone for 639-6, but it doesn't quite have enough recognition, and It's withdrawn anyways. Big fan btw.

  • @chancelove5430
    @chancelove5430 2 года назад

    Wow I like that language.. just found out iam bantu but never knew the sounds...that's kool 💯

  • @lunemacabre6006
    @lunemacabre6006 3 года назад +1

    Amazing.

  • @valansley
    @valansley 2 года назад

    I come from Fort Jameson/Chipata = Know these lullabies 👍👍👍

  • @alextheuri448
    @alextheuri448 2 года назад

    I understand this and am from Kenya

  • @jacksonamaral329
    @jacksonamaral329 4 года назад +1

    cool to listen it.

  • @kumbikhanna
    @kumbikhanna 5 месяцев назад

    Wah nimeskia kikamba, kiswahili flani ka ya congo, sijui kiluhya? Lazima nifike hii mtaa!

  • @JIML0316
    @JIML0316 2 года назад

    Beautiful singing

  • @rovalin6300
    @rovalin6300 4 года назад +1

    Moving.

  • @sergiorivera3966
    @sergiorivera3966 2 года назад

    Hello. Good lessons. Thank you❤❤😍

  • @baileyryan488
    @baileyryan488 Год назад

    She should perform her song on America's got talent

  • @themostgraciousqueenmarger2015
    @themostgraciousqueenmarger2015 4 года назад +3

    Hello hello hello!!!

  • @sweetcupcake2741
    @sweetcupcake2741 4 года назад +1

    Fellow Malawian

  • @mzbuzisprout3884
    @mzbuzisprout3884 4 года назад +1

    Moni, from Scotland. Muli bwanji

  • @theophonchana5025
    @theophonchana5025 4 года назад +3

    Chewa

  • @krystingrant6292
    @krystingrant6292 2 года назад

    Beautiful

  • @charlesmcshonay5901
    @charlesmcshonay5901 Год назад

    It really sounds like Swahili

  • @crazyintention9
    @crazyintention9 3 года назад

    Zikomo!

  • @annieslife4476
    @annieslife4476 2 года назад

    My husband's native tongue is chichewa and I want to learn it so much so your young children can be fluent in their tongue and English

  • @ilshyf
    @ilshyf 4 года назад +5

    I find interesting whenever European minority language speakers speak their regional one it usually is heavily influenced by dominant langue in their home country, but when African speaks, every language sounds to me as African even though s/he speaks English lol

  • @edgardmacena2704
    @edgardmacena2704 2 года назад

    Incrivell como a pronuncia lembra o português brasileiro. Aparentemente a intercalação entre consoantes e vogais que tornam o português brasileiro tão agradável na poesia tem raízes nas linguas banto

  • @Mehrunissah93
    @Mehrunissah93 4 года назад +4

    Can anyone translate the lyrics into English or write the lyrics in Chichewa?

    • @vicariousrainyliving8045
      @vicariousrainyliving8045 4 года назад +5

      Mwana kalila ni njala (If a baby cries then he/she is hungry) Mwana kalila ni tulo (If a baby cries then he/she is sleepy) sorry I am lazy to translate the whole song lol.

    • @Mehrunissah93
      @Mehrunissah93 4 года назад +2

      @@vicariousrainyliving8045 Thank you so much! I appreciate the part that you have translated. :)

    • @vicariousrainyliving8045
      @vicariousrainyliving8045 3 года назад

      @Татьяна Губанова No sorry I don't,I can only speak the predecessor language to Chichewa called "Chinyanja".If you are looking for a good translator search for any Malawian Facebook group and you will find tons of native Chewa speakers there, I am sure someone
      will be up for the task.

  • @juliusbintu
    @juliusbintu Год назад

    Sounds like Lusoga, Luganda and Kiswahili.

  • @stephenomondimbayi1437
    @stephenomondimbayi1437 Год назад

    The language contains both Swahili and luhya Kenyan🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪 bantu languages ,am able to get the words clearly.

  • @Tr.Abdussamiy
    @Tr.Abdussamiy 2 года назад

    Very much similar to Swahili

  • @drqtgurl7
    @drqtgurl7 Год назад

    9/23 Dream
    I am Dominican and had a dream last night with a chant including Bantu language. Mind you, I only speak English, Spanish, and some Italian but this dream certainly has meaning and I want to share with anyone of the culture. How do i know it is Bantu? Well I googled the chant and it was translated from Nyanja to English. In the dream they were honoring the death of an older gentleman and they were walking down the street in the pouring rain celebrating his death. His family passed by in front to also join in the parade and as they chanted , we joined in the chant to honor and respect his life. The chant was “Akulaki chi kulala”🎶 and when i googled the translation, it said “He is still sleeping.” 🤯 I am not sure if anyone can help me interpret my dream and how I was able to learn these words of a language i’ve never spoken!

  • @mariabenjamin2618
    @mariabenjamin2618 2 года назад

    Ndimakonda mnyumba kuona mwana kulira .Tikwe tikwe

  • @chancelove5430
    @chancelove5430 2 года назад

    I wanna learn the spiritual side... witch doctor ... it's in our family so I wanna learn

  • @felixngati7584
    @felixngati7584 Год назад

    This language its similar to Kenyan swahili🇰🇪🇰🇪

  • @bodibaski4164
    @bodibaski4164 3 года назад +1

    ᱟᱹᱰᱤ ᱥᱤᱵᱤᱞ ᱟᱲᱟᱝ❤️

  • @isaackyaligonza6254
    @isaackyaligonza6254 3 года назад

    am ugandan, but i seem to understand..the child is crying bse of anger and crying bse wants to sleep (alira)..hahaha

  • @lakudalakudenstein831
    @lakudalakudenstein831 3 года назад

    Zamrock brought me here

  • @TRACTS4JESUS
    @TRACTS4JESUS Год назад

    KODI CHOFUNIKA KWAMBIRI NCHIYANI KWAMBIRI NCHIYANI PA DZIKO LAPANSI? Pakuti onse anachima naperewera pa ulemero wa Mulungu Aroma

  • @itumelengmosailane1192
    @itumelengmosailane1192 2 года назад

    O bina ha monate o tle South Africa ke tlo o nyala

  • @eb.3764
    @eb.3764 4 года назад +1

    how beautiful 😍

  • @johnnyyi9027
    @johnnyyi9027 2 года назад

    "MULUNGU ALIPO!!!"
    "CHONDE DZIONE WEWE!!!".
    NDIKULONJEZANI, SUKUKUTAYANI NTHAWI.
    PITA KU U TUBE NDIKULEMBA DZINA...
    Mtengo wa KRYON
    MULUNGU AMATIKONDA KWAMBIRI!!!

  • @mariabenjamin2618
    @mariabenjamin2618 3 месяца назад

    Mukuyimba bwino kusamba lala la amayi athu wa zambia

  • @thienta8304
    @thienta8304 Год назад

    Nhờ ơn Chúa Thánh Thần nên trong năm 2016 ở Việt Nam giống Xuất hành chương 7 câu 14 đến chương 10 câu 29:
    Số 1: Nước biến thành máu: Cả 4 tỉnh miền Trung và thế giới từ 2016 đến 2023: Nước biến thành máu
    Số 2:Ếch: Cả nước
    Số 3:Muỗi: Cả nước
    Số 4:Ruồi nhặng: Cả nước
    Số 5:Ôn dịch : Sốt xuất huyết, sốt rét
    Số 6:Ung nhọt: Bệnh Tay Chân Miệng
    Số 7:Mưa đá: ở Sapa và các vùng lân cận
    Số 8:.Châu chấu: ở Lai Châu và thế giới từ 2016 đến 2023
    Số 9:Cảnh tăm tối: Đó là 21,22,23 tháng 12 khi trái đất ở xa nhất mặt trời thì Bắc cực sẽ có ba ngày ba đêm không nhìn thấy nhau
    Rồi một đêm tôi nằm mơ thấy những nấm mồ mầu trắng ở đó có hình Thánh Giá mầu trắng chung quanh là tím than. Rồi có tiếng hét: Chết hết cả rồi ! Tôi giật mình thức giấc:12 giờ đêm ở Mỹ (1 giờ đêm). Ở Việt Nam là 15 giờ cùng ngày
    Rồi một đêm khác tôi nằm mơ thấy hai con chim nhạn bị bắn chết . Tôi nghe nó nói: Nó là anh em sinh đôi. Tôi liền nghĩ là…. và Tận thế
    Vậy …. rồi tận thế lúc 12 giờ đêm ở Mỹ (1 giờ đêm). Ở Việt Nam là 15 giờ cùng ngày
    RUclips:” Những dòng sông nước chảy như máu từ thế giới 2016 đến 2023” và “Những đàn châu chấu từ thế giới 2016 đến 2023”
    Dịch bệnh, lủ lụt, các điềm lạ, động đất , hạn han…
    Phản Kito là ĐGH
    Sắp tận thế lúc 15 giờ cùng ngày

  • @robiebag5764
    @robiebag5764 4 года назад +1

    you should've put she's singing instead of speaking cuz that was quite annoying , I wanted to hear her speaking .

  • @clivenaylor5392
    @clivenaylor5392 3 года назад

    I scratched a hole in my monitor

  • @oledshwfgk3068
    @oledshwfgk3068 3 года назад

    I thought there was a booger on my monitor.