About the Swahili language
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- Simba, Rafiki, Pumba and of course Hakuna Matata - all these famous names and phrases come from probably the most well-known and the most widespread African language. If I told you, name one African language, you’d probably name this one. Swahili is a lingua franca in East Africa and an official language in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda. Around 100 million people speak Swahili (and many more can understand it to some extent), however it only has around 5 million native speakers. How did a small language of just 5 million people become a language that people all throughout East Africa use in order to understand each other?
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Swahili ni tamu sana 🇿🇲🇹🇿.
Learn this beautiful language and feel like a real African.
Tanzania need to learn Swahili from Kenyans
corretion: Kiswahili ni kitamu sana.
The way Swahili handles verb tenses with a single infix; -na for the present, -li for the past, -ta for the future and -me for the present perfect, is a lot simpler than any other language I know of.
Chinese basically ignores the tenses altogether. You have to infer the time from the context. Thank goodness Chinese grammar is simple, everything else about the language is very difficult for an English speaker to learn.
It is a fascinating language, Iam from Kenya🇰🇪🇰🇪, I am quite fluent in Swahili, It is the National language in Kenya
Yes. It is mainly spoken by watchmen & barmaids. Policemen, beggars, thieves, hawkers, housemaids, matatu touts, charcoal sellers, shoe shine boys, conmen also use the language
@@jfd12gubs45xThis mentality must be from Uganda
@@Victornambaga NO. I GOT IT FROM YOUR NYUKWA
@@jfd12gubs45x I knew 🤷🤷
@@jfd12gubs45x What a shameless Ugandan!
I'm a native Swahili speaker from Tanzania and I can say it's so fascinating to hear a non-native Swahili speaker speaking and mostly teaching Swahili. Swahili is the official language of Tanzania.
You can't be a native Kiswahili speaker and fail to see the obvious lies said in this video about the language.
I am very impressed to hear this from you Julie, I am a native Swahili speaker from Tanzania. Welcome to learn this wonderful Bantu Language.
My formative years 5-12 was in Congo (DRC). Swahili was then a language "invading" the local language Otetela. I was told that even though Swahili is well understood in most of east Africa the loan word came from the colonial languages. So Swahili in English territories took English words like computer and the French territories took ordinatuer etc. Swahili being a wide spread language lends to better communication. But when this means that Otetela gradually will disappear I feel sorrow. Otetela is a tonal language and as such lends it self to be transcribed" into musical drums. The Otetela have large wedge shaped drums 1 meter long and 80 cm high acustically shaped to transmit sound in a specific direction. When I lived in Congo the sound of jungle drums was a regular thing morning and evening. Of later, they are still used ceremoniously and young boys can be seen walking along the village main street morning and evening announcing the daily news for at small tip.
So with the spread of Swahili and radio and internet the old tradition of (Tarzan's) jungle drums will disappear. I couldn't find a picture of the drum on the internet, but my sister has one so I will send a picture some time in the future.
I don't think the tetela in sankuru DRC speak kiswahili. As a congolese. There are still millions of them who still speak it. Their language is still very much around.
Swahili is an evil Arabic language also eating away my native Gĩkũyũ language!
@@EstaJeanette-nk7fj Le Swahili a été introduit au Congo par les esclavagistes arabes donc c'est une langue d'esclavage; il est composé de près de 40% de mots arabes, sans compter les mots anglais et Portugais. Bref Pour nous Congolais qui aimons la souveraineté le Lingala doit rester notre langue-mère.
Worry about your own country. We do not need your sorrow or involvement in our languages. You have done enough damage by imposing European your languages on our continent
@@Kolweziisiro 40% is a gross over exergeration.Swahili is still very much bantu witth a few loan words. Thats why an arabic speaker cant understand swahili and vice versa
In the late 70's when I was 4-5 we lived in Tanzania (Dar es Salaam) for 2 years. My younger brother and I both picked up some Swedish from our neighbors and Swahili from everywhere else. Even after returning to the States we were able to keep up with it because when my parents didn't want us to know what they were talking about they spoke Swahili, which was like a language class in its self. After a while that strategy didn't work any more.
😂😂😂😂 Kenyan here.
That was so strategic of your parents.
This is amazing 👏🏼 🤩 🙌🏾
😂 hii imeenda
helllo julie, love your content from Afghanistan,
please make the next video about Pashto, it's very ancient arianic (iranic) language, it's our official language here in Afghanistan and is believed to have evolved from avestan and bactrian,
tell us it's history and everything, it would be very interesting since there are not much information about it online
please please
love you
PS: Pashtun female Kochi (nomadic) dress would look amazing on you for the thumbnail
Pleasant is a great way to describe Swahili: It is very pleasing to the ear. One can only hope that it will continue to be a major language in East Africa.
also widely spoken in Comoros and Oman
The dialect in Comoros is called Chikomori.
@@limofootballyeah true I’m Comoros island
Jambo ndugu
I am always surprised that some word from Comoros sound kiswahili, example,in chikomori," today is a happy day",if you say it in chikomori that is kiswahili,
@@kellysmith4095 leo wusiku wa furaha : i come from comoros island
Swahili fiction and poetry is also very beautiful especially when the writers decide to go crazy with it 😂
But if you don't know the language that well you may get stuck with a kamusi(dictionary) and most of the style, sarcasm nd references will fly over your head anyway.
Stories like "Kusadikika", "Lila na Fila" (a poetic retelling of a Swahili ogre/trickster story) and "Siku Njema" will leave you asking for more.
Utengano, Kilio cha Haki
Any Kenyan here
Niko
Tuko
Tuko hapa kama kawaida.. Tushatoka maandamano leo sasa twapumzika😅
Tuko wengi
Tuko hapa
I wondered when the next JuLingo video was going to drop! Thanks Julie!
I'm glad I found your channel. Educational and very cool!
Love the sound and simplicity of Swahili, just wish it was more useful around me
Your videos always make my day better! Hope we can see more languages soon!
Good morning from Papua New Guinea. I enjoyed watching your contents
Julia, thank you for such nice content again! It's very interesting!
such a beautiful language!
Unfortunately it is taken to be a measure of illiteracy in Kenya 😂😂😂
@@jfd12gubs45x Colonization mentality.😊
@@jfd12gubs45x Really? So the Kenyans prefer a foreign language (English) over their own language rooted within their culture?
@@TheRealUsername Even Swahili is foreign!! It was the language of the slave trade
It is also the language of the satanic religion called Islam.
@@jfd12gubs45xonly by Kenyans with inferiority complex and colonized mentality. Swahili, along with English and Maths were compulsory subjects in both primary and high school.
Sounding good as always, Julie.
Great video! Definitely subscribing!
Thank you for your latest video! I love the history you include with each language. My favorite kind of language learning. Helps us care and get emotionally invested instead of just hearing a language we have no other connection to. Thank you for all your hard work!
Iloveyou
You are calm. Very good videos.
Greetings from Brazil.
I have just started to follow your channel. 👏👏👏
Thanks for an interesting and informative video.
safi sanaa, hongera kwa uchambuzi mzurii. kiswahili kitaamu saana kukiongea,kukisoma na kuandika pia
Excellent work Julie. ❤ will you next do Old Irish ....please 🎉
this is a great presentation
Thank you Julie
Good work ❤❤
Uganda we are just starting to adopt Swahili in schools, at the moment most of the population use English or local language
I was today thinking of julingo and how long you didn't post a new video 😅
When I was a young boy I read a Tarzan book. The apes had a language and the author without out saying it used Swahili. I assumed he made up his own language like Tolkien. He even had an extensive Ape language dictionary in the back of the book. For some reason. I retained a large portion of the vocabulary and ten years later I heard the language being used on a train in Washington State. Needless to say I was quite amazed.
This is basically a racist comment. What was the title of the Tarzan book you read and how about the author and publisher? How is it connected to kiswahili/Swahili?
@@afrakanaswahilitv5520We mzee how is it racist? Have you never seen Tarzan or read the story? In the story of Tarzan is about a boy who is raised by apes. He is saying the author gave the apes their own language which turns out was Swahili
Very beautiful language.
Thank you for the educational video.
The suffixes of verbs in Swahili shows inflections or verb conjugations like for example: somesha, the suffix -sha changes the verb to mean read to someone
i think the word safari that came to english from swahili originally came from arabic /safar/ سَفَرْ originally, meaning to travel as well
Safar is Arabic ..the equivalent bantu word would be "rugendo".....this word runs from east congo to Rwanda to kenya to the south northern Zambia ....."genda..".enda....is the root word meaning go....
@@bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715sahihi
@@bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715 Umenikumbusha kwa kihehe wanauliza 'Magendo?'
Je, wewe mtaalamu wa lugha?
Exactly, see Swahili has more in common with Arabic than that other thing she keep calling "Bantu." Arabic is the single biggest vocabulary contributor to Swahili.
@@bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715 So why do ya'll like to claim Swahili is a "Bantu language" when Arabic is actually the single largest vocabulary contributor to Swahili, and Arabic isn't even indigenous to Africa?
Thank you 👍❤
Hakuna Matata everybody!
@JuLingo thank you for your video. I want to add that the influence of the Portuguese also have an impact with words like meza (Table), peremende (Candy/Sweets) and mvinyo (Wine/Alcohol) being loan words of Portuguese origin. This was during the period where the Portuguese were looking to a sea route eastward to India to cut off the Venetian Spice traders.
Please talk about the Breton language 😊! Lots of love from Canada 🇨🇦
Proud Kiswahili speaker 🥰🥰🥰😍😍❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for the video . I have learned a lot. The 🇩🇪 gave us the Swahili grammar including some few words .
Thank you for your extensive research on Kiswahili. You left out to mention some little influence from the Portuguese language onto our beautiful language. Words like Meza, Pesa, Leso, kopo gereza, karata, pipa, mvinyo, tarumbeta, zambarau, foronya etc
She is not Swahili speaker herself to know all those details. It's obvious she just Googled most of the things she's saying in this video, a portion of which is false.
interesting, thanks for sharing
"po" could not only indicate time, but also place. Context will always guide on usage.
All native the African languages including ancient Egyptian have this unique feature : The adjectives AND the numerals come after the noun they qualify or quantify.
Te felicito por tus videos. Es muy interesante aprender de la riqueza y estructura de otros idiomas. Para mí, en lo particular, tan lejano como el swahili. Como latinoamericano, no tenemos contacto con lenguajes de África, y por lo tanto es un agrado aprender más de su estructura, verbos y sonido. Todos, bastante complejos debo decir. Me imagino tratar de hilvanar una frase y al mismo tiempo intentar recordar cómo se debe estructurar cada parte y tiempo verbal en ella, es casi un desafío mayúsculo.
Mis sinceras felicitaciones (una vez más) por lo claro, muy bien estructurado y ejemplificador video que has podido lograr, como la mayor parte de los que he visto hasta ahora.
Sigue haciéndolos ya que resultan muy interesantes e instructivos, aunque me imagino que no debe ser nada fácil investigar cada tema que vas a tocar, pero logras que cada uno sea una pequeña joya en sí mismo.
¡Excelente trabajo de investigación y muchos saludos desde Chile!
¡Gracias, lo aprecio mucho!
Very nice l love my language kiswahili🎉
Calming voice
Amazing.
Love it
Would you like to learn it?
Bro taught me things 😂 I didn't know about my own language 🥲😭😭😭
Do you have an idea how dangerous that is, having a foreigner from Europe "teach" you about your own language in Africa?
Swahili has lots of words of Arabic origin, making a bit easier to understand Arabic
Arabic words are less than 1% and mainly the vocabulary part that are rarely used. If you speak Spanish you will see that it has a lot of Arabic vocabulary than swahili. Iam fluent in both Spanish and Swahili. Swahili sentence structure is 100% bantu and basically is a compilation of 22 viswahili bantu languages. The total loan words (less than 8%) are from English, Persian, Arabic, Portuguese, Chinese, Hindi, Germany and a few others. Note that every language has been impacted and also impacted other global languages. The commonly used nouns classes are 12 pairs referred to as "Ngeli za kiswahili."
Stop lying! Kiswahili is made up of more than 35% Arabic. I speak both Arabic and kiswahili and it has uncountable Arabic words. And there are even entire swahili sentences that are derived from Arabic such as sabahal kheri and sabahal nur. Some words in the swahili from Arabic are: aibu, kheri, bahati, hakika, karibu, samahani, salaman, abadan, safari, tabasamu; just to mention few
As a native speaker,This is a lie
@@ashrafismail9270Bila shaka is swahili,a full Arabic sentence,na kadhalika.
Asante Sana Dada Kwa somo hilo yalugha Kiswahili nibora zaidi kufundisha.
So cool
Fun fact: people claim Swahili is spoken in Uganda but none of us does 😂 maybe just people who want to join the army learn it
😂
Am from masaka-ug but i can write and speak Swahili
@@user-nm6ud4zo7h one of a kind.
@@LK-ho1dg Dont mind that fool! Like the Ytuber said most Africans prefer to speak the Oppresor European language and this fool is a perfect Example of that. I wish oneday all Africans speak Swahili but removing that Arabic in it. Cheers from Ghana 🇬🇭
Swahili is examinable by UNEB,used in the armed forces,on the currency notes etc.
a very pleasant sounding language 😊
That chat is called Ngeli. For different objects and beings indicating singular and plural form. They were eleven when we learnt in school.
For me it is Lingala in ouest africa the linga franca. Thanks to you I discover that Matata was also swahili. A Matete (a corner of Brazzaville) pas de Matata dans les Matiti (grass) .
DRC it’s not even part of West Africa . How lingala can be the linga Franca in West Africa stop spreading misinformation.
@@ibrahimsylla1456 I was there, the other language was Munukutuba. My mistake is Congo is considered equatorial Africa but is the west of teh continent. They were lucky enough not to met any Ibrahim!
learning it since 2 years. Love it but its a pain
easiest way to learn swahili is by staying around kenyans
Pole! If you want help, let me know. It shouldn't be a pain, it should be fun! And the language structure is quite simple and the rules very consistent. 😊
Yoruba, Ewe, Fon, Mandinga and Uolof are also amazing languages that would create entertaining videos
You must be from Nigeria or Ghana. What about Igbo?😳
@@agnettakamugisha4984 I'm Igbo and I don't mind if he's requesting Yoruba. Why would that even be an issue?
it sounds like kiSwahili might be quite easy to learn,
in practice.
but it seems complex.
It's easy but only when you try
Asante
Beautiful language.
Cool!! After Russian, I will either study Swahili, or Bahasa.
Kiswahili is spoken also in northern Mozambique, northern Zambia.
❤️ YOOOO! Nice video!!! I’m a Small Struggling Travel Channel and you really inspire me to make better content 😌 Thank you! 🙏🏻
Do Duala next...
10:37 is true to most if not all bantu languages...
In east congo suahile is widely speken. In Oman some people speak swahili, i comores they speak a language is very close to swahili,swahili is also spoken in north of mozambique.
Im a proud Swahili native speaker
The coolest african language, I hope to stydy it some day
😍👍
I don't know why i'm learning my nation language, but am here anyway😂
Where did you find the head-ware and costume of every country? Or is it AI generated image?
Karibu Mombasa. Mombasa raha!
Visit Tanzania especially Zanzibar for real fluent Swahili Language....
please do Luganda next or Afrikaan
While listening to it I understood nothing.
Yet, as for its sounds, it reminds me a bit of Italian, a language that I'm learning presently.
Thanks a lot for sharing this interesting video, hakuna matata!
Italian? I speak Portuguese. Are you sure it sounds like Italian?
@@gato-junino I never said that. It reminds me a bit of Italian.
@@gato-junino We have Portuguese words in Swahili too. Meza is table, Mvinyo is wine
@@sologj even veranda
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Julie what new language have you been trying to study these days?
Am Tanzanian, fluently Swahili speaking Born and raised...and honestly,this is a Classroom for me... it's funny but true... especially when on ""nilipokupikia"" if this was an exam,it F(0) for me 😮💨😒😔
Unyama mwanetu DuLingo... Agiza Mbandandu nakuja kulipa kwa pusha 😎😎
she said sweet to hear then proceeds to talk about an accident 😂😂 nice content tho
This is weird, and maybe it's just me but all the speakers you played sound like they're American English speakers speaking an African language. Something about the phonotactics I guess
They're actually not. As a Kenyan who knows the difference between some Kenyan urbanites who speak American English and also Kiswahili, and people from the Kenyan Coast who speak it proper, the speakers she played sounded like coastal speakers, or mainland Tanzanian speakers, who have not been influenced by English or any other non-bantu language.
@@thedante7722 I wasn't trying to imply that they were. It simply sounded to my ears like when American English speakers speak another language. Like the consonants and vowels used tickled my brain in a weird way lol
Am kenyan , Uganda don't speak Swahili. But the rest of info is correct
UPDF do speak
I liked to listen to Swahili. ❤
Cat language is very important to learn.
There are many cats around the world.
The accent differ, you will appreciate more if you hear from Kenyan coastal people speaking the mvita accent from taita tribe, and arab descent or arabs speaking it in kijomba accent, where basically you are speaking kiswahili but the accent is Arabic
I love Swahili.
I was hoping you would talk about the Civilization 4 game title music, "Baba Yetu," which is in Swahili.
Does that mean our father?
Looked it up, and it does, odd it it's similar to the Nguni "uBaba Wethu"
@@bri1085 Yes, it's the 'the Lord's Prayer' in christianity.
@@bri1085Yup it does. Many of these basic words are similar across most of the bantu languages. In GiKuyu, it is "baba witu".
@@kim1570 the word thing is it's not that universal in SA. In Xitsonga which is one the more Northern languages in South Africa it's "tatana wa hina," while SeSotho it's "ntate oa rona"
Karibu Afrika mashariki
Ki-lima-njaro, the little hill.
The highest mountain in Africa is a little hill...
It's actuali.....kilima- njaro.the hill of njaro(njaro must have some local meaning)
All mountains in bantu region start with kilima- or mlima ....eg. kilima- mbogo...mountain of buffalos...
Kirima nyaga(mount kenya)...mountain of ostriches etc...
Unlike most Bantu languages Ki in Swahili is diminutive. In other Bantu languages Ki is superlative and Ka is diminutive. So Kilima, big mountain, Kalima, hill. Njaro, Njeru, Nzeu ... mean white in Thagichu Bantu language cluster spoken in Central Kenya and Northern Tanzania. So Kilimanjaro is simply the big white mountain.
@@kevmwenda4044 Kale kakuku kadogo kako kwako kaka?
Excellent research. Think Swahili should be the African communication language. Instead of having English french Portuguese where 2 African people cant communicate because of colonial languages.
You’re showing Mwai Kibaki in the EAC community pic 🤣. His term ended in 2013. He died in 2022.
Somali . . . but I visited East Africa with the US Army . . . .
I love my language
What do you mean 5 million people along the coast of east Africa while you just said it’s spoken mainly in Tanzania. And we are more than 60milion.
I propose our brothers from Africa and Asia to defend your local languages instead of european ones.
It's not easy, but if I could I would try to learn and spread around to country.
We can speak european ones, but defend local ones.
I would like to speak an indigenous language called Tupi Guarani local from Brazil.
Funny enough, Safari comes from the arabic root. sfr.
About hakuna, it is more exact to put it that "kuna" is "there is" or "there are". The verb "to be" is "kuwa" and it is used more in a conceptual and descriptive sense, while (i)ko-mo-po is used as "to be" in a location sense and "kuna" as general existence.
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Lts have fun learn the aqahili,Karibu sana.( you are welcome)