The Curious History of Zanzibar and the Swahili Coast
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- Опубліковано 25 бер 2019
- The island of Zanzibar and the Swahili Coast have quite the curious history of revolutions, wars, trade and migration from all over the world that make this stretch of land one of the most culturally rich and relevant in all of Africa.
In today's video we'll discuss just what makes the Swahili coast and accompanying people so distinct from the average Bantu or Black African. Be sure to let me know your thoughts on the Swahili people and the island of Zanzibar. Thanks for watching!
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Nice bill wurtz reference
Thats just where he lives
@David Hibbs in the thumbnail
maybe the whole video is made because of the bill wurtz jingle that stuck in his head
Kenyan here. Thanks for shedding light on our part of Africa.
Hello Masaman! I've been subscribed to the channel for awhile, wonderful content, I am from Dagestan myself, it would be great if you did some videos about the Caucasus: Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia and others, many interesting things still to uncover about the region, your viewers would like it, because the region mostly is shrouded in mystery for the whole world! The video would be excellent! And thanks for the content
@Ian Miles By your comment I could conclude that people are interested in the Caucasus, if so, then Masaman will release a video, it's just a matter of time
That would be great Khabib has sparked my interest in that area.
@@joshuaotero8794 Yeah, Khabib is pride of Caucasus (Dagestan), and apparently he has put Dagestan on map for many people
Kurban Abdurakhmanov are you happy to be part of the russian federation?
I too am interested in the “Caucus region”. I am personally interested in “Armenia”
Zanzibar is a name that I remember as a kid, probably because of the British Empire connection, but it's real history is so much more fascinating than anything you might imagine at first. As always, this has been Mason, and this has been awesome. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
That's just where he lives.
Meanwhile, I can only remember it because of a quote from metal gear solid
please do a video on the island of Sakhalin.
Are you from here?
Reichshund ???
@@DegenerateSharingan I thought you are from Sakhalin.
Reichshund nope I'm an American. Just wanted Masamans perspective on Sakhalin.
That region always fascinated me the aniu people used to live there and in japan
Freddie Mercury was born on Zanzibar.
@Raees Zargar Instant down vote.
@Raees Zargar shut up
@Raees Zargar yeah, shut up
@Ray Magrey Your mom will never love.
He was a hindu
I think it's very important to recognize that having other cultures influence another doesn't dilute the culture but rather it enriches the culture and create something unique and new
Culture is only ever being snuffed out by introducing others when an active attempt is made to suppress one culture that is tied to introducing another such as with the native anericans
Thank you for acknowledging that my friend 😁
Thanks Masaman for saying "Somali" instead of "Somalian". Greetings from Mogadishu.
You insecure people. Talk about inferiority complex..The term Somalian is a perfectly acceptable word if you really put facts over feelings. Greetings from Khartoum
@Lidku Simpson Not really
@@brn3k812 Excuse me huh
@@brn3k812
The Somali vs Somalian debate is stupid imo but who are you calling insecure?
@@lt2672 It isnt a debate. One is grammatically correct and the other isnt. Its like me saying Germanian instead of German. You can say wtf you want but I think saying somalian makes you sound like an idiot. You cant just come up with ur own grammar and expect us to suck it.
This man is teaching people on what the Europeans won't teach their own about history
most history i learned in america was US history the only time i think africa was mentioned was the barbary pirates but then again the only time europe was mentioned was when it had to do with the revolutionary war. i think this shows a fundamental failing in understanding all world history something now they are phasing out entirely.
@@dosran5786 Same in Canada as well where they only teach you what they want u to learn. I thought native Americans were all dead they way they talked about them in high school. Never told us how they put them in reservations and treated them, but people's history can't be erased no matter what they do.
@@Farhan917 yes in america we barely learn about the 13 tribes or any positive things about native american culture. its always how they suffered nothing about how they lived. imo while their suffering shouldnt be ignored this does their history and culture a disservice. we should remedy to fix that help them hold onto their language and culture so we can learn about it instead of endlessly repeating its tragic end.
Yes
I love how diverse your videos are, I’ve learnt soo much that I wouldn’t have known if it wasn’t for your channel. Keep up the good work
I went to school with the Zanzibar royal family in England, whee they lived in exile after the Afro-Shirazi party took over in a coup.
Plz.. tell me more..
i think yours is the only channel i still get excited about seeing a new video pop up for in my suggestions. fascinating as always. great video.
I'm ZANZIBARIAN FROM PEMBA ❤️❤️❤️thank you 🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿
My family is from Mombasa and Mombasans have pemba accent
So interesting! Excellent research and presentation.
Thanks, Mason!
i love your videos Masa, one of the best channels on youtube!
Thanks for a very informative video.
This is insanely fascinating!!
This channel is a gift. 10/10
thanks for the video!
At the time of the coup, Zanzibar was an independent sultanate with the sulatan being half zanzibarian himself. They were no longer under Omani rule. Many zanzibarian live in Oman, for example the minister of education and the dean of my university ( the sultan Qaboos university) . We as Omanians never really colonized the coast we basically dominated it by trade and assimilatition not by military forcess which we did not have. Many migrated from the coast to Oman and brought with them their food, tradition and language. After the separation the zanzibarian here in Oman became citizens of Oman and they are our friends coworkers and neighbors. What is unfortunate is the massacre that happened where Omanies, Indian and Muslim zanzibrian were killed, many of whom were mixed race, Rather than working together to build a new indipented Zanzibar. Many Zanzibarian fled to Oman at that time and many migrate to Oman till this day. They are proud of their culture and language and are great people.
@Vaughn reed jr yes i was mistaken the coup was by a an Ugandian leader and his followers of the Afro-shirazi party, from what I have read.
The Omani sultanate never reached the Somali coast. I don't know why he put up that map at 7:03
Pretty interesting how the ethnic cleansing of 1964 complete with execution pits and death marches was glossed over You can watch footage of it here - ua-cam.com/video/4lpY8_mKvjk/v-deo.html . I also have an interesting family story on the Sultan's revenge.
@@lt2672 they did reach Somalia in 1856
@@f4x609 That was nominal. It's like saying the Somalis claimed authority over Britain or Russia but of course we wouldn't have power over it. Same thing for the Omanis. They claimed the Somali coast but a Somali Sultan sacked Zanzibar...
You thought that no one would notice the Bill Wurtz joke? Well not anymore, there’s a blanket!
Is loving Masaman legal yet?
@@PsychosisFire you could make a religion out of this
Merci beaucoup pour tes vidéos très instructifs. Je ne comprends bien anglais mais j'arrive avec effort à saisir l'essentiel. Thank i dont understhan english very good but your vidéos are very informations from Sénégal
Senegal est Magnifique! Respect from the U.S.A.,mon ami!
J'ai parler un peu de Francais parce que je suis un Canadien. Je pense que les videos est tres bonne aussi. Bonjour!
@@waynedombrowski7568 merci merci thank you god bless your
@@cooleslaw thank your god bless your
@Moussa KOITA Salutations de la Californie! Est-ce que vous parlez Wolof?
I love your videos. Keep up the good work!
I just recently discovered the history of this region and find it fascinating, so thank you for doing this!
Another unique topic 🙂👍🏼
Thanks. Very interesting. It's all new to me.
Very interesting history!
You should do a video on Zoroastrians and the Parsi community in India
Please do an episode on the UK and its ethnic and cultural transformations! From the settling of the Celts to what it is now. That would be crazy
What's great about Masaman's channel is that he does it for the sheer love of his subject. He's not here to be a UA-cam star or make a lot of money. He just loves talking about ethnicity, and being a modern knows not what else to do but share his interest on UA-cam.
Eye opening video.
Awesome MASAMAN!!
You touched on some profound issues, although much more can be said on those, but that remains to be reviewed.
The universally accepted specialist on the matter is Professor Felix A. Chami who has researched and written extensively on this subject (much of which is available online).
I'd like to say that in my opinion the Comorians are the most interesting/remarkable Swahili group!
Also if there was a "Swahili-country" I'd say completely unbiasedly that Tanzania (due to its early profound adoption of the swahili language nationally) would most closely fulfill the modern day criteria for it..
Thanks for the great video and keep it up (waiting for part 2😉)!
thats why i love age of empire most....it helps me to know about history
This is incredibly accurate and therefore interesting.
Mason, can you do a video on the Native American tribes of California? There's a huge variety of languages, physical types, and lifeways in Aboriginal California, I think you'd find the topic really interesting. I'm working on my doctorate on this topic, so if you need suggestions for resources just let me know. Love this channel!
Man... I don't know what you get out of this, but damn...this channel is so superb. Really great work dude. You're doing great work. It's so good. I just want to eat my computer!
It's like Mason lives in my head! Or, we share the same mind... It's a trip! 😎
Fascinating.
Great videos Masaman! My Dad is a Swahili from Kenya and mom Malay from Malaysia. I took a DNA test and basically the whole world map was highlighted except Australia.. I inherited a little bit of everything from everywhere.. and your videos on Swahili and Austronesia explained it beautifully. Thanks!!
The polls are great! 👌
Please do a video on northern Italy,southern Italy,Sicily and Sardinia and all the different dialects, cultures,traditions and phenotypes/ethnicitys etc
I heard of Swahili when I was 6 , watching the *OLDE* Star Treks. Lieutenant Uhura . Fascinating history. Wish I woulda had access to all this when i was young. *~;)
The harbor at Carthage was amazing.
My grandfather married a Swahili woman after my grandma’s death. My mom told me that in the old times the coasts of africa were like Dubai and Singapore of today. Arabs used to go their to get rich and many of them stayed there or brought wives or slaves back with them. That’s why there are many descendants of Zanzibari slaves in the Arabian peninsula. Especially in Yemen, Oman, and the coasts of the Persian gulf.
Btw Swahil means Coasts in Arabic
shield&sword peace the ones in Iraq were majority slaves and their revolution is a very well known incident that led to hundreds of thousands killed.
Admire Kashiri they weren’t dumb most of them were benefiting from arabs and Persians. Swahili Slaves were sold by their own people to arabs and they weren’t captured by them and Swahili families will give their daughters to arabs in exchange of money “bride price” and this happens till this day poor families will give their daughters to richer men in exchange of money and many of those girls will move to the countries of their husbands, essentially leaving their families behind.
I noticed when I visited Zanzibar, how interesting it was to see all these different looking people.
Well, it is commonly understood that Kiswahili developed as a trading language. I have often heard that the bulk of the words come from Kisambara in the mountains of North East Tanzania, but words from many other tribes have been included as well. Around 20% is claimed to have a foreign origin, mostly Arabic, some from English, and a few words from German (such as shule-school), Portugise (mesa-table), Chinese (chai-tea), and Urdu (laki-hundred thousand). I think the main effect of Kiswahili is the communication between tribes, which made Tanzania so peaceful compared to other countries and regions. The biggest cultural and political difference in Tanzania today is possibly between Zanzibar (one million) and "the mainland" (Tanganyika-meaning the wilderness beyond the coast with triangular sails (tanga is triangular sails used on dhows and nyika means wilderness) with 52 million people. I think the origins and genetic relationship between mainland tribes in Tanzania are far more interesting than the origins of Kiswahili. This is a topic (the origin of different tribes) discussed almost as much when you meet people in Tanzania as the weather is among people in Europe. Oh and - did you claim that Tipu Tip went into Congo and had a land area there? I thought the Arabs mostly went to Tabora or Ujiji and bought slaves from Congo from Wanyamwezi slave traders, but maybe I'm wrong.
Africa is full surprise
Please make a Video about Siberia before the Russian Conquest
I can tell you as a Swahili speaker that there is an incredible amount of words from Arabic in Swahili, many of which I and other Swahili speakers are unaware of.
@Admire Kashiri I'm not a Swahili, I'm ethnically a Somali, but I'm from Kenya and we speak Swahili in Kenya. But many people do claim Arab and sometimes Persian ancestry. The people claiming to be Persians are mostly in Zanzibar, but many Omanis and Yemenis live on the Swahili coast, so I'm sure intermixing happened a lot.
@Admire Kashiri Not all Arabs hated blacks. On the coast religion was what mattered more than race, it just so happened that the pagans in the area were blacks.
@@imperator692 pagans are your father mofo
there are a few i can think of sukari (sugar), sadaka (offering), hasara (loss), shukrani (gratitude), dakika (minutes), alhamisi (thursday), amina (amen), asali (honey), daudi (david), binti (daughter), kitabu (book), kalamu (pen), marahaba (hello), wakati (time), alfajiri (morning) and more i can't remember. they are the same with a slightly different spelling and pronunciation
Basicly every tanzania born after the unification speaks swahili like a first language because it's the language you speak with people from other Tribes and in school. Most people under 55 don't even know their own tribal language, so I would say that swahili is a first language for around 70% of the people. This comes from a Tanzanian.🙌
Well made video 👌
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Nicely done! I do not know if any of my suggestions were a part of this, but if they were, thank you. As usual, here are some more suggestions:
1. I second the request for a video on Sakhalin and the islands in East Russia. I was actually going to suggest the Sakha Republic, so that might give you a broader idea.
2. Nagaland in South Asia, and the deep and mysterious regions of eastern India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.
3. Manchuria and Tocharians
4. Is there a modern Moorish ethnicity in NW Africa? Elaborating on that would be helpful.
5. Urartia and Eastern Anatolia
6. Japanese Mexicans (that has interesting history)
7. Hawaii
8. World War 0 and World War 1/2 (aka. "Seven Years War" and the "Napoleonic Wars" (you can include the Neutral Moresnet in that one).
9. Uigers and East Turkistan
10. I also found recently that the Chuuk Islands in Micronesia might also be holding an independence referendum soon.
11. Anishinaabe Civilization (Algonquin and other people's around the Great Lakes); Poverty Point, Louisiana-a CITY build by hunter gatherers, Cahokia, and Native American Civilization in the USA before Columbus. The ancient history of America that's often overlooked.
12. My usual suggestions that I've stated in other videos. I still would love to see a video on Zoroastrianism and modern ethnoreligious groups with them, even beyond the Parsi's and Gabar's.
My mother was born in SA & use to speak SWAHILI fluently, I found your documentary really interesting because my parents lived in Zanzibar & 4 of my siblings were born in Tanzania, Zanzibar too, 2 were born in Malawi & after the bloody revolution & coup took place, my father had to send my mother & 7 of my siblings to India from Zanzibar, while he & my eldest brother stayed to take care of the business & property with my father, me & my sister were born in India & we came to this country UK in 1969 , while father came here before us after selling his business & house in Zanzibar before we came, we all lived in a 2 bedroom terraced house, I can’t imagine now how it must have been for my parents to have lived through that part of history, my youngest brother was born here on Christmas Day, needless to say they treated him like the special child that he is, I use to be a little jealous too, but now I just feel privileged.. lol
I really enjoyed the documentary.
Zanzibar is the Isle of Cloves. I haven't watched this yet. Freddy Mercury the singer for Queen was from Zanzibar though is family were Zoroastrians. Masaman should do a video on the Zoroastrians. I have met three Zoroastrians and I also met some Bahai who converted from Zoroastrianism. Very interesting topic, in my opinion.
Bunch of morons worshipping the fire that is it.I didn't see something so interesting about that.
@@BenjKlxer Zoroastrianism is the original religion of Iran. Twelver Shiism which is an Iranian brand of Islam is infused with Zoroastrian ideas. I find Iran to be an interesting Civilization with a long interesting history. There is more to Zoroastrianism than the fire I think Zoroastrian ideas are embedded in the customs and mindsets of a lot of people from Iran and Central Asia.
People who followed anything came from Iran was relative to Iran(Eg.Tajiks,Afghans).Turkic people of central asia and caucasia only borrowed Nowruz from Iran which was a new year celebration of ancient Iranians because it spreaded through when Turkic tribes from central Asia started to rule Iran and those turkic rulers also celebrated holidays of natives etc.Still not interesting though.
@@BenjKlxer Zoroastrianism is a sister religion of Hinduism , and don't pull them down like that.
They have contributed a lot to the world
Ternate is THE island of Cloves ;)
Top-tier thumbnail right there.
Hi Masaman please make video about kingdom of Champa and its relationship of Acehneses
Hooray! Now I know how I got my Chinese, Viet, and Andaman Island admixture into the Swahili!
you really need to do something about the Portuguese in Asia. I had understood that Swahili is a language of trade and incorporates Arabic and Portuguese among other languages. An example of an Arabic word in Swahili is Safari which comes from the Arabic verb sfr which means to travel. I think this a pretty good topic and I think you could do more with it. Since you are going to be doing videos about Tanzania would you consider a discussion of the Lemba tribe of Tanzania? They claim to be descendants of Jews and to have built great zimbabwe.
This is great to know am from zanzibar nd my dad told me that my tribe is shiraz but originated from lamu which i think is from kenya and move to pemba(zanzibar) and lamu has bantu people whic
I’m half Finnish and my father is Zanzibari Comoroian!! Love our interesting mixes ☺️👌🌸
A really good video. Thanks a lot. I met people in Kenya from Mombassa who said they were ethnic Swahili so is there a Swahili ethnicity? They seemed to identify as a separate group.
There is, yes
Asante, bwana!
Tenebrous - good word!
such a damn shame the British burned the historical evidences of civilisations in the Swahili coast. Oh, and I love the thumbnail
I love your work man and I hope you see this.
My country Zimbabwe history is so tangled up when it was Rhodesia it's history became illegal to change or to read,like an example the Zimbabwe bird is acc a hybrid of a bird and man and Zimbabwe had made the own zodiac caladnder on a plate so much more, can you please get back at.I would say I know what im talking about but everyone can be easily misled
Can you do a video on the Navajo, Hopi and Apache?
Bill Wurtz + Masaman= the greatest crossover event of the century
Thank you for this video my family is from Pemba in Zanzibar however I also have lots of family in Oman too, is it possible to do a video on Pemba history too thank you.
Comments are great too!
زنجبار عاصمه سلطنه عٌمان🇴🇲❤️..
Aside from a very comprehensive research and excellent presentation, just one point got missed: Swahili people or language originates from the word, Sahel, meaning the people or language of the Sahel, or the coast. Thank you again for your good work
*sawahil
Nope Swahili comes from “Ziwa Hili”, which means “this ocean”. This was the response the natives gave Arabs when they first made contact with them and asked who they were or from.
@@joshuaotieno4364 Good to know - thank you for sharing this with me. Be well and stay safe
Please do a video on Moravian Wallachia!
For some reason I found the Comorians the most interesting group in the video. They seem to be close to mainlanders, but I wonder if there's a Malagasy cultural and genetic substrate on the islands that was absorbed by the Bantu Comorians - that is, if a branch of the Malagasy colonized the islands before the Bantu Comorians, or vice versa. Thanks for another excellent video, Mason!
Aaron Marks Mayotte island is part malagasy
I'm comorian 👋🏽. We, comorian of different origins (bantu/persan/arbs/Indonesia or some Indian), ruled on the country for century. Some Malagasy people camed later and were absorbed by Comorian identity, but not that much camed. Except in Mayotte (one of the 4 islands) They have known a massive migration of Malagasy and are know designed as the "kibushi" in this Island, they speak Malagasy language
Dude! Please look up Hueyatlaco, Mexico. The coolest untold mystery yet. Humans from a quarter million years ago.
Bantus are not “standard black Africans”. It’s a language family. Yes I know if the Bantu migration, but there’s lots of what you would consider “standard black Africans” who are not Bantu. It’s like calling Germanic speakers “Standard white Europeans” like linguistics defines your whole ethnicity
@Devon Lewis yes there is. It’s officially known as the Niger-Congo B language family and Swahili is included
@Devon Lewis Devon, I’m sorry if this was misinformation. I’m Kenyan-American myself and my family speaks Swahili, and most of my extended family still lives in Kenya (though not from the coast) and I’ve been there every other year of my life. I’m going off of a mix of Wikipedia and what I’ve learned and experienced actually being an East African citizen.
Many of the National languages in the East African Community are related in the same language group such as Kinyarwanda and and Kiswahili being distinct languages but sharing the same roots. Even in kenya, ethnic languages like Kikuyu and Luhya are considered and referred to by actual Kenyans as Bantu languages while others like Teso and Kalenjin are referred to as Nilotic languages. Maybe it’s all misinformation from European pseudo-scientists but it is how many actual people in the real world, at least in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania, which I’m most familiar with, identify and categorize their own languages as.
There are swahili tribes/ native swahili people whom are referred as 12 Swahili tribes. 8 out of 12 are found in kenyan coast from Lamu, Malindi, Mombasa- Tanga, Bagamoyo, Zanzibar archipelago and Mafia island to southern Tanzania coast and as far as Comoros islands. The tribes are as follows amu, tangana, changamwe, wamvita, wakilindini, tumbatu, tangata, kunduchi etc
Sorry There are no Swahili tribes in Tanga and bagamoto
The Mijikenda can all be found in Kenya, what are you talking about?!
Stop lying i am Tanzanian and repeat stop lying your self
@@simonkobero3601 this name kobero is from which tribe? is it associated with Wangozi ( waswahili) tribes?
@@deepsea2141 Wangozi is not only tribe of Swahili people, there is 23 tribe of Swahili
A good Exemple of Persian Family in Zanzibar is Fred Mercury's family. Actually his real name was "Farouk Busara"
Yea I saw that, they actually fled the island because of the revolution...from my understanding...
*Masaman!* You should look into the *Udmurts* of Udmurtia, they have the highest rates of red hair in the whole world.
I love the bill wurtz reference in the thumbnail
Have you heard of the Mascogos in Mexico? They're a group of people who are descended from a group of runaway slaves who fled to the desert in Mexico to escape slavery.
Please do an episode on the Sami people's or about the pygmies
do a video on Socotra !
Like... 30-ish% is a grandfather/grandmother. Identity is not defined by strictly by percentages, but by the dynamics that create the percentages. That's significant AF.
IsiZulu (and IsiXhosa) have clicks but are Bantu languages (influenced of course by their KhoiSan neighbors). Zulu is the second most widely spoken Bantu language and has three click consonants(c,x, and q). Keep up the Good work!
bad work.
@@godofthisshit?
According to my DNA results, I'm 1.2 % Kenyan. I have no idea how that is possible given the fact that my dad is Jamaican from the West Indies but it's fascinating nonetheless
Very little but some East Africans were brought the the Caribbean.
@@arandomyorkshireman9678 that's a traced gene from their main West African ancestors, for instance, most west africans have east african Gene's in their dna.
@@arandomyorkshireman9678 there were no slaves from Kenya. Also no documented cases of slaves from east to west.
Be careful with DNA test because they lack of African samples so their interpretation is often bad. You have to migrate your result on another site who will reinterpret more precisely
Those DNA statistics are a reap off...why because there is nothing like Kenyan DNA or Nigerian DNA...there are over 42 tribes in Kenya and over 500 hundred in Nigeria ....so how are you getting a result of Kenyan or Nigeria
i'm a member of the diaspora, decended from fairly recent immigrants. i'm of nigerian paternity 🇳🇬 ghanaian maternity 🇬🇭 and some amazigh (berber) 🇲🇦 background, but...born and raised in america. 🇺🇸
Islam is poison.
Nigerian fulani
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no...ignorance is the actual poison. 🤔
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السلام عليكم ورحمة اللـه وبركاته
you're from northern nigeria then right??! 😁🇳🇬
@@sulaimaanahmad I'm Ghanaian fulani
Do Kazakhstan next!
I had drinks at Freddie Mercury's on Zanzibar.
Zanzibar coffee is great.
Can you make an Ethno-Racial map of the world in 1800s or 1900s?
Do one about Nigeria please I want to learn about it but can never find any
Type up the 4 kingdoms of West Africa.
The Khoi-sans and the Hadza with their cousins Sandawe (long relatives of the Khoi-sans) along with the pygmies are the oldest then followed by Bantu, Afroasiatic, Barbers.
The Swahili city States along with the Mali and Kongo kingdoms are the reasons I respect Africa as much as I do
It doesn't matter your reason for respecting Africa or Africans. Africans would always respect those who genuinely respect them. Period!
Well it confirms what I've been noticin' lately...East Africa is highly mixed with:
- Middle-East
- South-Asia
- Southwest Asia
- Austronesia
- China to a lesser extent...
Sounds like it's been like that for awhile...interesting...
I first give a 👍 then I watch
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You should do a video on the Eurasian union
Very interesting and informative video.
I have some Swahili (Kiswahili) speaking friends. They have taught me a little Swahili. It seems a relatively easy language to learn, and spoken Swahili can be a relatively beautiful language.
The Swahilis are the most influential bantu group in eastern Africa that is why their language became the trade language instead of Arabic along the coast. Culturally they are homogeneous people however due to constant contact with foreigners make them genetically non homogeneous group. They have many dialects that are mutually intelligible. The written swahili text use kiunguja, a zanzibari dialect. In fact Official standardised kiswahili is Kiunguja though other dialects such as kiamu may be richer.
Do a video on siddis
Nobody has talked about the great thumbnail
I am a Kenyan who had leaved among the swahili for more than ten years.
Nice Bill Wurtz reference in the thumbnail
That bill wurtz reference tho
Make a video about maldivian genetics