SIMILAR WORDS IN SWAHILI, SISWATI, ZULU, XHOSA & NDEBELE. EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICAN LANGUAGES.

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  • Опубліковано 16 тра 2020
  • This video teaches a few similar words in both Kiswahili and Siswati and their relationship. Some of the words have similar spellings and meaning.
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  • @jaffarmguwa5566
    @jaffarmguwa5566 3 роки тому +70

    I add other few words for you
    Swahili zulu English
    Makwapa amakwapa ampits
    Kupika kupeka to cook
    Maji manzi water
    Usiku ubusiku night
    Mvulana mfana Boy
    Kuona kubona to see
    Kuambaa kuhamba to go
    I'm. Watching your video from dar es salaam TANZANIA.... WELCOME TO TANZANIA

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +3

      Yes great, thanks for the additional words Jaffar. The list is endless such words like Ngoma in Siswati it's ingoma, kunona is still kunona in Siswati...and many many words

    • @daveondiekaaron2204
      @daveondiekaaron2204 3 роки тому

      Very Close 💘

    • @shalomkind4575
      @shalomkind4575 3 роки тому

      Wow this is awesome!

    • @ferdykeyz4583
      @ferdykeyz4583 3 роки тому +4

      Bantu languages are all closely related

  • @opacarophile4716
    @opacarophile4716 3 роки тому +44

    sometimes watching south african films like scandal without subtitles I'm amazed how much I can understand bantus people are really one east central to south, much love from Kenya 🇰🇪

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +4

      It's great to know you watch scandal. Try Generations they also mix most of the South African languages, you will understand some of what is being said

    • @siyabongamviko8872
      @siyabongamviko8872 3 роки тому +1

      We are not Bantus, that is a very racist term here. We speak SiNtu and aBantu = humans, thank you for your cooperation .

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      @@siyabongamviko8872 we are one Africa regardless of what anybody calls it. Simunye Siyabonga some people are still learning the meaning of all this bantu/abantu/bantfu terminologies. Ungakhubeki mabenta imistake batawufundza eventually 😊

    • @opacarophile4716
      @opacarophile4716 3 роки тому +6

      @siyabonga Mviko I understand the word Bantu was used as degrading term to black South Africans in apartheid period by colonialists but my friends its meaning and use has evolved over time and its now used all over africa to refer to a group of people with similar origins from cameroon who moved and settled east central and south of africa, besides how can I be racist when I am a Bantu from Africa trying to learn more about our connections!?Its like saying african americans are racists for calling each other niggers😂

    • @romenhome5138
      @romenhome5138 3 роки тому +1

      @@siyabongamviko8872 its racist because you live among those who hates real africans and yet had guts to call themselves afrikaaans..i am bantu just like they are flemish or aglo saxons

  • @babumrisha
    @babumrisha 3 роки тому +12

    Even your accent sounds "Swahilish"!!! thank you sister. I wish All africans would adopt Swahili as official african language

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿You are the first person to tell me my accent sounds "Swahilish" and I'm happy. Thank you 😊

  • @m.kaniki908
    @m.kaniki908 3 роки тому +18

    Zanele, my daughter, receive my encouragement in your noble endeavors to make us Africans realize how similar we are. The tragedy is that we strangely see one another through western eyes. Our european-imposed languages and borders have unfortunately suppressed the reality of our connectedness. I'm a Congolese (DRC) who speaks a few foreign languages (French, German, Portuguese) - and others not perfectly (Spanish, Italian, Japanese, etc.), - and I've had the privilege of staying in a few african countries (Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa). Being a language enthusiast, I've been struck by the similarity of the languages in those countries.
    To add to your good presentation in this video, almost any bantu language speaking person would relate when I count from 1 to 5 in my language Tshiluba (also written Ciluba), spoken by Baluba in central DRC :
    1 umwa, 2 ibidi, 3 isatu, 4 inayi, 5 itanu. From 10 to 15: 10 dikumi, 11 dikumi ni umwa, 12 dikumi ni ibidi, 13 dikumi ni isatu, 14 dikumi ni inayi, 15 dikumi ni itanu. And from 20 to 50: 20 makumi abidi, 30 makumi asatu, 40 makumi anayi, 50 makumi atanu.
    The linguistic similarity is not only in words, but even in whole expressions. I couldn't believe it when I heard South Africans say: "wafawafa, wahlalawahlala". I was shocked, because in Tshiluba, the expression, having exactly the same meaning, is: "wafwawafwa, washalawashala"!
    That told me that a few centuries and thousands of kilometers may have separated us, but culture, language and philosophy keep us together as one people.
    We just need to dare face the facts to acknowledge that.
    Well done once again!

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Oh wow😲 this has been soooo eye opening those numbers are so close to most languages. It's amazing just how similar we are without most of us knowing this. Wow I'm impressed!

    • @victormpapuluu6497
      @victormpapuluu6497 2 роки тому +2

      Even Swahili the numbers are similar.

    • @samngigi8780
      @samngigi8780 Рік тому

      In my Kikuyu language,
      1 is imwe
      2.igiri.
      3.ithatu.
      4.inya.
      5.ithano.
      ...quite very similar.
      I think you are linguistic genius like Zanele.

  • @thomassimms2884
    @thomassimms2884 3 роки тому +50

    Swahili and Siswati.....very similar to Shona! All Bantu languages! You are right, we are very similar and we need to embrace each other!

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +10

      Hi Thomas, very very true I have a friend from Zim she speaks Shona at some point we could understand each others languages. We are one my brother no need for the hate amongst us

    • @h.m.5724
      @h.m.5724 3 роки тому +9

      So why did you leave Shona out when it's 99% same as the words you wrote eg.
      Shona / Swahili
      Rara / lala
      Kurima / kulima
      Vhura / vhula
      Mbudzi / mbuzi
      Huku / kuku
      Mwaka / mwaka
      Mbiri / mbili
      Mazai / mayai
      Funda / funza
      Imbwa / mbwa (dog)
      Nguruve / nguruwe (pig)
      Miti / miti (trees)
      Imvi / mvi (white hair)
      Imba / imba (sing)
      Baba / baba (father)

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +7

      @@h.m.5724 my Shona is very very poor I know just a few words. I cannot teach a language that I am not fluent in. Thank you for sharing I'll make a video with the other languages that are similar including Shona, and other Kenyan languages

    • @uwayojeremie872
      @uwayojeremie872 3 роки тому +4

      All Bantu languages are very similar that swati are also similar to Kirundi for Burundi and kinyarwanda for Rwandans ( imilima ,.,) Even shona and Zulu many words from that two languages are also very similar to Kirundi and kinyarwanda

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +2

      @@uwayojeremie872 oh wow thanks for the information, it's amazing to know just how similar we all are

  • @idrisanaumanga6410
    @idrisanaumanga6410 3 роки тому +33

    This is STRICTLY TRUE, watching all away from Tanzania. Ahsante Dada.

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +3

      Ahsante sana kaka

    • @BenLeeBl
      @BenLeeBl 3 роки тому +2

      From Tanzania we the same but you started with I

  • @bernardjohn8788
    @bernardjohn8788 3 роки тому +5

    Asante sana dada upo sahihi kabisa 🇹🇿🇹🇿🇹🇿 if arabs did not contaminate our swahili all bantu countries would been communicating each other

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      Asante pia Bernard. It's amazing how we still have some similarities even after the contamination

    • @pharisnganga2012
      @pharisnganga2012 3 роки тому +1

      Arabic is also the same so many similar, walakini is lakini, gabla is kabla,

    • @lutufyodixon9997
      @lutufyodixon9997 3 роки тому

      It is us Africans who took kiswahili into the hands of Arabs just like South africans allow English to Influence isizulu, sixhosa and other languages

    • @bernardjohn8788
      @bernardjohn8788 3 роки тому +2

      @@pharisnganga2012 before arabs invasion to the east African coast there was no single Arabic words was similar to the indigenous bantu.What swahili you hear today was affected by arabs

    • @johnwoshi3459
      @johnwoshi3459 3 роки тому +1

      True

  • @samuelkamau3418
    @samuelkamau3418 3 роки тому +12

    Julius Malema says it right...we should not be having these boundaries that were created by the our former colonizers

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +2

      What are they for? I agree that they should be removed

    • @jeremiahwaweru894
      @jeremiahwaweru894 2 роки тому +1

      Borders deny us our rightful History.

  • @kijanahodari2080
    @kijanahodari2080 3 роки тому +28

    Im Kenyan what i learn is that in eswatini they just add letter "i" from those Swahili words

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +2

      For most words we just add one of the vowels "a e i o u"

    • @ericiraho122
      @ericiraho122 3 роки тому +3

      Kinyarwarwanda and kirundi we add also "i"

    • @vijananarutomovement7625
      @vijananarutomovement7625 Рік тому

      Kijana Hodari originally many Bantu languages are added i ,look and Luyha and Kisii,
      This Kiswahili is abit a mixture of Bantu and Arabic where there's consolidation and we adopted Zanzibar's Swahili,that's why

  • @lolanimals7206
    @lolanimals7206 3 роки тому +10

    I just love the Zulu clicks! I hear them in some Tribes too. Sending love from TZ 🇹🇿❤️ Asante! Nimejifunza kitu.

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +2

      Haha karibu sana

    • @dingalodingalo8447
      @dingalodingalo8447 3 роки тому +3

      Xhosa is one that clicks

    • @sudonym5356
      @sudonym5356 Рік тому

      @@dingalodingalo8447 Zulu also has clicks, and Siswati. It's just more prominent in Xhosa; the Nguni tribes picked them up from the Khoi they found in Southern Africa.

  • @zonko0488
    @zonko0488 3 роки тому +22

    Zanele keep going until we realize we are one!!!

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      Indeed my brother. We are one big African family

  • @wilfredmichael1909
    @wilfredmichael1909 3 роки тому +16

    I am from Tanzania... You are absolutely perfect.

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      Ahsante sana I'm humbled 😊

    • @josephchale1977
      @josephchale1977 3 роки тому +2

      She tried, expect for mayai mawili instead of mayai mbili etc..

  • @zungubarbers2809
    @zungubarbers2809 3 роки тому +28

    In lingala (spoken in both CONGOs): lala means also sleep.

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +2

      Oh great, that's good to know Zungu

    • @congoukwelimao4884
      @congoukwelimao4884 3 роки тому +5

      Ndeko @Zungu Barbers, It's not only that. There are many similarity than you think. I speak both Lingala and Kiswahili, and I can assure you that all bantou languages have many similarity to swahili.
      Ex. Kolamuka =Swah. Kulamuka; Kolia =Swah. Kula; Miso =Swah.Mecho; etc.

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +2

      @@congoukwelimao4884 oh wow I'm impressed

    • @nuruworldinsight2957
      @nuruworldinsight2957 3 роки тому

      Yap, so great

    • @nrwawanndeny7394
      @nrwawanndeny7394 3 роки тому +3

      @@swaziinkenya Hi madam
      I'm from Tanzania,I would like to learn Siswati and visit your County one day

  • @madirishasimon9692
    @madirishasimon9692 3 роки тому +11

    Iam a proud Swahili speaker from Tanzania

  • @georgekayesi2902
    @georgekayesi2902 3 роки тому +6

    My first languages are Luhya and Swahili, and they are similar to each other because they are Bantu. I enjoy listening to Southern Music because their words are very similar to what I am already familiar with. These languages really relate. Much love from Kenya 🇰🇪

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      Oh yes! Thank you so much George 😊

  • @allythabiti8150
    @allythabiti8150 3 роки тому +2

    Congratulation my sister, hongera jaman.

  • @nathanbutso1099
    @nathanbutso1099 3 роки тому +4

    My little sister I really enjoyed this I am a Congolese American living in Atlanta. I speak Swahili I was amazed by the similarity between Swahili and your language.thank you

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Hello brother. Wow I am so glad you got to see just how similar we are. I was also amazed by the similarities the first time I learnt Swahili. So I decided to share

  • @kaisarimbisso7579
    @kaisarimbisso7579 3 роки тому +4

    Spot on sister. You are a true, beautiful African woman. Mungu Ibariki Afrika

  • @ogsokwe3643
    @ogsokwe3643 3 роки тому +2

    You're the best zanele👌👏

  • @josephmalisa2987
    @josephmalisa2987 3 роки тому +1

    Great of you dada! keep on and never stop

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Thank you Joseph more Kiswahili and Siswati content is coming

  • @westonmbuba6421
    @westonmbuba6421 3 роки тому +4

    Sweet looking, nice topic, romantic voice. You're blessed young lady.

  • @molomokwena5185
    @molomokwena5185 3 роки тому +5

    Yes, it's baNtu languages, also in South African Sesotho dialects, bula monyako=open the door, pudi=goat.

  • @zakiamseka9698
    @zakiamseka9698 3 роки тому

    Wow amazing...hongera

  • @zachariahtomemba9070
    @zachariahtomemba9070 3 роки тому +1

    Excellent presentation

  • @kentech7
    @kentech7 3 роки тому +6

    Watching from mombasa kenya. I love it swahili sounds simpler though

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +2

      Hi Kenneth, thank you for watching. Yes Swahili is simple and the sweetest language

  • @giegor28
    @giegor28 3 роки тому +11

    Thank you..I've learned alot ..I found myself translating from my kikuyu and most words were similar sounding..bantus are really one people...

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +4

      Hi Giegor, I'm so glad you learnt something from the video. Yes, Kikuyu also has similarities with Siswati. Thank you for watching

    • @rashidmdoe8697
      @rashidmdoe8697 3 роки тому +2

      Same to luhya

    • @rashidmdoe8697
      @rashidmdoe8697 3 роки тому +2

      Kulima, swahili. Khulima, luhya

  • @e.jack.47
    @e.jack.47 3 роки тому

    That's amazing.

  • @celestineonditi1278
    @celestineonditi1278 3 роки тому +2

    Very good presentation, well researched. I subscribed immediately

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      Thank you for subscribing and for watching. I truly appreciate 🙏🏾

  • @martinnzori2852
    @martinnzori2852 3 роки тому +6

    I enjoy watching from Rio de Janeiro

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Thank you very much for watching Martin

  • @ReasYTchannel
    @ReasYTchannel 4 роки тому +4

    I saw you on Wode Maya's live chat and I will be coming here regularly to learn KiSwahili.

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  4 роки тому

      Thank you so much Kagisho and thanks for subscribing stay tuned for more Kiswahili lessons

  • @wambosworld
    @wambosworld 4 роки тому +1

    Very informative.. 😍😍 n fun😅😅 was nodding my head to that beat..

  • @saidikaniki1632
    @saidikaniki1632 3 роки тому +3

    One of the Best Channel to subscribe! Very Crucial Contents! I bet this channel will accelerate African Unity Movement🤣

  • @kenyainfo2251
    @kenyainfo2251 3 роки тому +4

    Love from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪.. Alot of words similar to swahili in zulu and xhosa too.

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Zulu and Xhosa are similar to Siswati so yes

  • @claudinelola3894
    @claudinelola3894 3 роки тому +7

    My prayer is to see all black people love and respect each other

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Mine too. Africa would be the greatest continent

  • @ajmwa1982
    @ajmwa1982 Рік тому

    Your very good on speaking different languages

  • @sindymbau5255
    @sindymbau5255 3 роки тому

    Interesting loving it

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Ngyabonga Sindy and thanks for watching

  • @hassanmody3005
    @hassanmody3005 3 роки тому +4

    Ahsante sana kwa somo zuri, binafsi nimejifunza kitu.

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +2

      Nashukuru sana kusikia hayo maneno. Nitaendelea na masomo mwezi ujao

    • @nuruworldinsight2957
      @nuruworldinsight2957 3 роки тому

      @@swaziinkenya kumbe Zanele, wew ni mzuri kwenye Kiswahili vile vile 😘😍😊
      Let you connect us especially me with South African languages. I real love your languages there!

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      @@nuruworldinsight2957 and we love Kiswahili so much. Thanks for watching

  • @unduireniungai...nitucokie3337
    @unduireniungai...nitucokie3337 3 роки тому +4

    i once heard a zimbambwe fellow saying his tribe migrated from south africa and they came from east africa kenya to be specific,we are one i love this channel

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +3

      Yes we are ONE indeed I do long for the day where we will put our differences away and focus on the oneness

    • @panafrican.nation
      @panafrican.nation Рік тому

      I find Shona quite similar to Mijikenda in Kenya

    • @felixmakinda7689
      @felixmakinda7689 23 дні тому

      It's very possible. I was talking to a Zimbabwean the other day. Thimlich Ohinga ruins is a historical site in Migori, Kenya, which is built exactly like Old Zimbabwe ruins. The Luo inhabitants claim that it was built by some Bantu groups, attributing it to Abagusii. However, the fact that Abagusii live not far from there and they didn't build anything similar elsewhere may suggest that those who built it actually have a connection with the people who built Old Zimbabwe.

  • @christophermachonchory4500
    @christophermachonchory4500 3 роки тому

    Welcome at Tanzania, come and learn more Swahili words. And thanks for sharing this

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Thank you very much my brother. I will visit Tanzania soon

  • @samutykuntathebantu8402
    @samutykuntathebantu8402 3 роки тому

    Nice video. video nzuri dadangu

  • @ladyama2237
    @ladyama2237 4 роки тому +9

    I’m from wode maya’s here to learn some Kiswahili. I’m a Ghanaian so take it easy on me ooo when I make mistakes 😊

  • @paulmfangavo2035
    @paulmfangavo2035 3 роки тому +3

    We are all bantu we are from one source let we love each other .asante sana Dada.

  • @davidmanyasa5848
    @davidmanyasa5848 3 роки тому +2

    Mbuzi in swahili,, Imbusi in Kilukhya
    Kuku in swahili,,, ingokho in Kilukhya
    I now know of my cousin in SA. The Swatis

  • @00zhane
    @00zhane 3 роки тому

    Nice video. Keep it up and your hair is beautiful

  • @FredyVincent951753852456
    @FredyVincent951753852456 3 роки тому +10

    Watching from Tanzania, having a language widely spoken in the continent is a step ahead towards unification of Africa.💪🖒👌❤

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      I totally agree Fredy Vincent, it's time!

    • @SGOA32178
      @SGOA32178 3 роки тому +1

      Watching from Kenya, and I love siswati, isiXhosa, isiZulu, and the ndebele languages. Most of us in East Africa find them fascinating and I think we all know why

    • @SGOA32178
      @SGOA32178 3 роки тому +1

      Freddy Vincent, why does Tanzania follow a path of language genocide? Even the largest countries have numerous tongues. I don't understand

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      @@SGOA32178 why 🤔 please enlighten me 😄

    • @SGOA32178
      @SGOA32178 3 роки тому

      @@swaziinkenya because of the click sounds. Very revolutionary sound to most of us

  • @mohameda.i.baranyikwa6551
    @mohameda.i.baranyikwa6551 3 роки тому +5

    I'm African-Canadian and so proud to learn similarities between African Languages. Africans we are ONE PEOPLE.

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      Very true we should embrace these similarities more than our differences

    • @iddykisome3126
      @iddykisome3126 3 роки тому

      Hi mo do you speak any African language

    • @mohameda.i.baranyikwa6551
      @mohameda.i.baranyikwa6551 3 роки тому

      @@iddykisome3126 Yes bro: I speak: fluent Kiswahili, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kiha, and a bit of Kisukuma and Lingala

    • @iddykisome3126
      @iddykisome3126 3 роки тому

      @@mohameda.i.baranyikwa6551 du uko vizuri dogo, mwadila baba

    • @mohameda.i.baranyikwa6551
      @mohameda.i.baranyikwa6551 3 роки тому

      @@iddykisome3126Mwadila, mli mpola baba? Kukaya kulugo?

  • @kenyanniggar357
    @kenyanniggar357 3 роки тому

    This is good ooh

  • @enockmisigaro1130
    @enockmisigaro1130 Рік тому

    Asante Dada kuwa funza lugha kiswahili,..hongera sana (much congratulation) . From Tanzania

  • @BeaRocha87
    @BeaRocha87 3 роки тому +5

    thanks very much for this content, Id like to learn a lot of siswati cause I´ll going there soon. thank u very much!!

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Hi Bea Rocha you can send me an email at cetengy@gmail.com and we could arrange for lessons. I'd love to teach you before you travel there 😊

    • @BeaRocha87
      @BeaRocha87 3 роки тому

      Perfect! I send you now email

  • @kingjoshuamhuamk2559
    @kingjoshuamhuamk2559 3 роки тому +7

    All people in southern Africa had parents from East Africa. Here in Kenya we say ciothe/yote meaning all,usiku meaning night,kana/ama meaning or,nyama meaning meat,kwitu/kwetu meaning our home,matata meaning problem,lako/yako meaning yours,we meaning you,lala meaning sleep ,and many other words the Zulu language is like the mixture of all Kenyan languages but it's bantu spoken in different tones by the way Embu is located here in Kenya near Mt Kenya.physically sothafricans look like people here in East Africa .

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +2

      I totally agree!!! thanks for the additional words and knowledge. Ahsante sana Kingjoshuam

    • @thescribe7645
      @thescribe7645 3 роки тому

      yes, the physical similarities are astounding. I am Kenyan and in Namibia they kept calling me Tswana, others would say I look like a Damara (a Namibian ethnic group)..

    • @victormpapuluu6497
      @victormpapuluu6497 2 роки тому

      Yes Soo many people in south Africa look similar to Kenyans.

  • @bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715
    @bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715 3 роки тому +2

    She said terere,....and marenge...
    Wow...
    I have been on this lingua study especially the bantu trail for the longest time....

  • @bonfacewitaba_official
    @bonfacewitaba_official 3 роки тому +2

    Great lesson Zanele. I have more Swahili / Zulu phrases that I would love to share with you as well.

  • @bosspkabambi9372
    @bosspkabambi9372 3 роки тому +3

    From congo , we say thank you. Swahili lugha yetu tangu utoto. My parents teach me french before my mother tongue swahili. Now i have regret, i Want to learn my children my best tongue: swahili first and Kikongo in second

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      I love your spirit. If all Africans can have that mentality, we will be able to reclaim everything that was lost in Africa.

    • @romenhome5138
      @romenhome5138 3 роки тому

      swahili is the language of future.. swahili speaking congolese will have a big advantage when east africa intergrate.. french speakers are just alone, speaking only to other french speakers

    • @bosspkabambi9372
      @bosspkabambi9372 3 роки тому +1

      I live un canada , when i meet someone who speaks swahili, i am happy. Speaking english is not exotic. We grew up with this ignorance. It means that we were made to believe that to be intellectual is to lear and to speak the language of the colonizer. At school in my contry Congo,when we spoke swahili or others languages, we were beaten up by the teacher. It’s nonsense

    • @romenhome5138
      @romenhome5138 3 роки тому

      @@bosspkabambi9372 as if french has benefited congo.. english nowadays is just for economic reasons, because the english speaking world controls world economy and politics..nothing exotic about it.

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      @@bosspkabambi9372 aha! That is exactly the same thing in my country and here in Kenya. Why would you beat someone for speaking their languages. Absolutely ridiculous! Unfortunately kids still get punished for speaking their languages

  • @Yes-sl7gz
    @Yes-sl7gz 3 роки тому +3

    This video made me take a different look that I had not considered before.
    While there is no doubt that the languages are related, I am now convinced that Siswati was the original language of my people in East Africa. Swahili is greatly influenced by Arabic hence the little differences. But Siswati sounds more like unaltered Bantu dialect.

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +3

      Haha we should look look into it. If its true we might have to make Siswati the unifying African language 💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿

    • @Yes-sl7gz
      @Yes-sl7gz 3 роки тому

      @@swaziinkenya I will definitely be digging into that research.

  • @bennygati3612
    @bennygati3612 3 роки тому

    Browsing through UA-cam,I saw yuo👍👏👏❤yes I'm a sabie😂now!!!Great CONTENT..keep it up,okay?Hi from New Orleans,La

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Wow thank you so much, I'm so humbled😊

  • @ajmwa1982
    @ajmwa1982 Рік тому

    Your doing a good job

  • @emilywakiochannel8325
    @emilywakiochannel8325 3 роки тому +5

    Am a Taita from Kenya and we have similar words like mlango - mnyango

  • @davidgachigo
    @davidgachigo 3 роки тому +4

    I believe the similarities are due to the fact that the speakers are all part of the bantu family which Swahili also borrows from and With the bantu migration from Central through East and then towards southern Africa.

    • @kenyainfo2251
      @kenyainfo2251 3 роки тому +1

      Kiswahili doesn't borrow from Bantu, kiswahili is a Bantu language.

    • @bustani-inn7328
      @bustani-inn7328 3 роки тому

      True, also the ngoni/nguni migration from South Africa to the the rest of the continent has had quite alot of influence on all bantu languages

    • @m.kaniki908
      @m.kaniki908 3 роки тому

      @@kenyainfo2251Very well put. Many of us do not know this, but, I'll try to suggest the following in short. Kiswahili came into being when people coming from different parts of Africa - namely, Central, Eastern and Southern - were gathered together and needed to communicate with one another.
      Who were those people?
      Long before the European slave traders came to our shores, and long after they had stopped that evil trade on the western coast of our continent, the Arabs were busy with that trade on the eastern coast. They brought people from as far in land as present-day DR Congo, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique (this country being named after Musa ben Biki), etc and gathered them on the east coast to get them on ships to the Middle East. The effort of all those bantu people to communicate lead to the formation of the beautiful language we know today to be Kiswahili. Descendents of the Swahili slaves have proven to be reluctant to denounce the atrocities of Islam and the Arabs to avoid offending the religion that their ancestors were forced to embrace to escape further harshly brutal dehumanizing treatment they received at the hands of the Arab slave traders. That's, briefly put, how Kiswahili came about. I've lived or stayed in 7 central, eastern and southern african countries and, as a language enthusiast, I've realized the contribution of all languages in those countries to lugha tukufu la Kiswahili, which we need to cherish and promote as a major unifying factor of the bantu people.
      Best regards.

  • @tfl4963
    @tfl4963 Рік тому

    Great job Zanele 👏 👍 Very similar languages and tonal variations. Swaziland 🇸🇿 Kenya 🇰🇪, East and Southern Africa 🌍

  • @luganomwaigomole8849
    @luganomwaigomole8849 3 роки тому

    Bravoooo.... Vemaaaa

  • @georgembugua1565
    @georgembugua1565 3 роки тому +3

    How i pray that we all African countries we speak one good language and it should be SWAHILI

  • @porojotele9963
    @porojotele9963 3 роки тому +5

    Thanks for your class and the similarities you made between Siswati spoken in Eswatini and Kiswahili in Tanzania. I am a Tanzania leaving in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. From the little I know is that IsiXhosa, Isiswati, IsiZulu, and Indebele have something in common. So, Kiswahili can better unite the majority of the Bantu speakers in African than any other language. Congrats to our presenter for your enlightening presentation. Keep on!!

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Hello Porojo Tele. Indeed Kiswahili stands a better chance especially because it is already widely spoken in East and Central Africa

    • @husseinkayllah9538
      @husseinkayllah9538 3 роки тому

      Hfgj

    • @fullmetaltheorist
      @fullmetaltheorist Рік тому

      Nah. Why don't you speak Zulu I stead? I don't want a foreign language being taught to future generations in my country. Better that you learn our language.

  • @josephmmoja486
    @josephmmoja486 3 роки тому

    Thank you so much, be bringing more of this, indeed we are all related, regards from Kenya

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      Thanks Joseph check out part 2 in my latest videos

  • @conrado.
    @conrado. 3 роки тому

    Nice one my sister

  • @jeanclaudedusabe3331
    @jeanclaudedusabe3331 3 роки тому +3

    I'm Rwandan, I had been thinking that Kinyarwanda is similar to Kiswahili but now it's much more similar to Kiswati.

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Oh really please share the similarities

    • @garvinbihire9676
      @garvinbihire9676 3 роки тому +1

      @@swaziinkenya In Kinyarwanda Umuryango=Door (fungura umuryango=open the door); "kurara" = sleepover; inyweri=hair braids; inkoko=chicken; Umwaka=Year; kabiri,babiri, abiri, tubiri, bibiri=two things , people,...; Imirima=farm/fields/ gardens; Umuntu=person

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      @@garvinbihire9676 oh wow umuntu is a person just like Zulu. In Siswati it's umuntfu, wow I'm impressed

    • @garvinbihire9676
      @garvinbihire9676 3 роки тому

      @@swaziinkenya maybe all the people of the World have same orgin. But how do you pronounce "Umuntfu"?

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      @@garvinbihire9676 haha how do I pronounce in writing.. I'll be sure to have it in my next video sta tuned

  • @worldwide1856743
    @worldwide1856743 3 роки тому +3

    I'd love to come across a list of the similarities with bantu languages a d where they differ as a way of understanding more of how we r all related and combine it with dna results and mapping. Brill video been searching for this all week

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      I am working on compiling as many bantu languages as I can possibly get, compare their similarities and see where they differ. Thanks for watching Kaijah d

  • @siphiwosakhemanyatsi4163
    @siphiwosakhemanyatsi4163 4 роки тому

    Awesome! Am loving this! It's very informative. Thanks dzadzewetfu!

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  4 роки тому

      Thanks Siphiwosakhe. Welcome to the family sisiwami

  • @wewehussein1085
    @wewehussein1085 3 роки тому

    Ahsante dada

  • @rashidmdoe8697
    @rashidmdoe8697 3 роки тому +3

    Mbuzi - swahili
    Imbuti - siswati
    Embusi - luhya(Kenyan tribe)
    I think if broken further down we will find that the native languages sound similar

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Yes some further research will help us understand

    • @zazaland
      @zazaland 2 роки тому +1

      swahili .......... luhya ....... . english description
      mbuzi............. imbusi ..........(normal size goat)
      kambuzi ........... akhabusi ...... (small/tiny or beloved goat)
      kimbuzi .............okubusi ......... (gigantic/big/bad or annoying goat

    • @rashidmdoe8697
      @rashidmdoe8697 2 роки тому

      @@zazaland 🤣🤣🤣 This is so accurate it sounds so similar

  • @patrickshikolishikoli940
    @patrickshikolishikoli940 3 роки тому +4

    Am a Kenyan in my tribe Luhya mbuzi is imbuli, chicken ingoko etc we are one

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      Oh wow that's sooo similar, Patrick. Thank you for educating me 😊

    • @patrickshikolishikoli940
      @patrickshikolishikoli940 3 роки тому

      @@swaziinkenya I've been trying to find similarities of my language and other Bantu languages especially Congo and southern part of Africa where I find many things quite similar

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      @@patrickshikolishikoli940 we should share some words and compare I won't be surprised if we have a lot of similar words

    • @patrickshikolishikoli940
      @patrickshikolishikoli940 3 роки тому

      @@swaziinkenya am gonna give you some words that I think have not changed with time
      Fire wood....... Tsinguni tsio mulilu
      Water... Matsi
      House..... Indzu
      Down..... Hasi

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      @@patrickshikolishikoli940 wow that is so similar in fact when I read the words they sound zulu

  • @kenyainfo2251
    @kenyainfo2251 3 роки тому +2

    Kenyan nilotic tribes such as masai and Kalenjin call grandmother Gogo/koko.. I heard a xhosa call his grandmother Gogo and i was so surprised. Also south African have a little Ancient south nilotic (Kalenjin - datooga) DNA according to geneticists. But Majority of South Africans share majority of their DNA with Bantu Kenyans.

  • @kensimiyu5926
    @kensimiyu5926 Рік тому

    Great girl u have blessed me.and opened my eyes to new meanings of words and how similar we Re as africans

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  Рік тому

      I'm glad you have found this useful my brother

  • @RepentJesusisComing
    @RepentJesusisComing 3 роки тому +4

    We were one you moved South and we remained

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      Yes! In fact in Siswati we have a song that traces us back to Embo. I totally agree

    • @ntoshnxt6950
      @ntoshnxt6950 3 роки тому

      @@swaziinkenya EMBO

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      @@ntoshnxt6950 indeed!

    • @yusuphsasamalo504
      @yusuphsasamalo504 3 роки тому

      What embo mean sis?

    • @KingOfAfrica90
      @KingOfAfrica90 3 роки тому

      @@yusuphsasamalo504 embo Is a Nguni tribe comprising of Dlamini and Ngwane nations

  • @tumpaleluhanga1396
    @tumpaleluhanga1396 3 роки тому +5

    The languages are very similar. It seems I need just a month to learn siswati. But in Swahili the word "two eggs" we say "mayai mawili"

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Yes thanks for the correction. I hope others will see it. It is very easy to learn any of the languages and quite interesting once you realize the similarities

    • @nrwawanndeny7394
      @nrwawanndeny7394 3 роки тому

      @@swaziinkenya You motivate me to learn siswati and I would like to have a for friend to exchange with kiswahili.I'm from Tanzania ,the home of Kiswahili.

    • @kenyainfo2251
      @kenyainfo2251 3 роки тому

      Kenyans say mayai mbili tho

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +2

      @@kenyainfo2251 😂😂😂that is where I got the wrong word from. But I've noted the correction when I go to buy eggs, no more asking for mayai mbili 😅

    • @nrwawanndeny7394
      @nrwawanndeny7394 3 роки тому +1

      @@kenyainfo2251 Yeah! Kenyans who don't know their national language they say so but it is mayai mawili

  • @iddijumaali7192
    @iddijumaali7192 3 роки тому

    Welcome to tanzania zanzibar nakupenda

  • @chogoraaiddy6417
    @chogoraaiddy6417 3 роки тому +2

    U made my day my beloved sister for teaching me and the way you pronounce swahili word karibu Kigoma Tanzania

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      Hehe some are saying I should work on my Swahili accent. Thank you my brother 😊

    • @chogoraaiddy6417
      @chogoraaiddy6417 3 роки тому

      @@swaziinkenya I will try to watch every video of you to your Chanel because I have commented to many Chanel without any replay from the owner but you Did it thanks 😘😘😘 🙏

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      @@chogoraaiddy6417 oh thank you. I am so humbled

  • @pudensianabren2336
    @pudensianabren2336 3 роки тому +8

    Where were you Zenele? I love this lovely. Karibu Tanzania

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      😂 😂 I'm here now. Ahsante sana Pudensiana.

  • @prothodommy
    @prothodommy 3 роки тому +3

    So can we re-unite our Bantu nation.. imagine having one big Bantu nation

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      That is my wish and I'm working towards that

  • @kalamustudio
    @kalamustudio 3 роки тому

    Safi sana...

  • @dhakomodherooherokoko6037
    @dhakomodherooherokoko6037 3 роки тому +1

    Good work, kazi nzuri sana mrembo.You are also beautiful

  • @bonfacewitaba_official
    @bonfacewitaba_official 3 роки тому +5

    Swahili Luhya (Kenya) iSiZulu
    Maji Matsi Amanzi
    Iba Khwiba Ukweba
    Njia Injila Indlela
    Mvua Imbula Imvula
    Kula Khulya Ukudla
    Usiku Butukhu Busuku
    Kumi Likhumi Ishumi
    Nyoka Inzukha Inyoka
    Amka Vukha Vuka
    NB: Are you on Twitter by any chance?

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      Oh this is beautiful! And wow the similarities are amazing I've learnt some Luhya also. Thank you 😊

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      I'm on Twitter @teezee_zanele and also on Instagram same handle

    • @bonfacewitaba_official
      @bonfacewitaba_official 3 роки тому +2

      Sharp Zanele. I am an African languages aficionado. Would be great to work on something with you - say a Swahili / Swati / Zulu phrasebook 😇

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      @@bonfacewitaba_official I would be very honored we will discuss further. My email is zanele05@yahoo.com

    • @zonko0488
      @zonko0488 3 роки тому

      @@swaziinkenya Zanele hii email ndio ya mawasiliano?

  • @ismailyusuph740
    @ismailyusuph740 3 роки тому +5

    It’s good ‘ and very interesting.....but why these people the kill brother’s and Sisters from Africa...was very badly...!

  • @Lifeisgoodkitty
    @Lifeisgoodkitty 3 роки тому

    Great lesson! During the lockdown I found an SA show Muvhango on UA-cam..I was pleasantly surprised that I could understand it a lot- they mix languages, but it’s mostly in Venda..😀. I’m from EA.

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      😂 😂 😂 I was actually telling a brother that Venda is actually close to some Kenyan languages. I'm glad you like Muvhango you will learn a lot of it

  • @notmeatall70s
    @notmeatall70s 3 роки тому +1

    You should do a video where you just do that intro dance. I love it.

  • @kenyainfo2251
    @kenyainfo2251 3 роки тому +4

    Swahili - Nguni languages
    Mbuzi(goat) - imbuzi
    Dada wetu(our sister) - dada wethu
    Matata(trouble) - Matata
    Moyo(heart) - moyo
    Wetu(ours) - wethu
    Etc

    • @snownfire
      @snownfire Рік тому

      🇰🇪🇰🇪🇿🇦🇿🇦

  • @fredypastoryutd4864
    @fredypastoryutd4864 3 роки тому +1

    I like the way you dance😂😂 beaurriful

  • @afrakanaswahilitv5520
    @afrakanaswahilitv5520 Рік тому

    Pamoja milele! Kiswahili kitukuzwe!

  • @vickomen3697
    @vickomen3697 3 роки тому +1

    Your Kiswahili is on point💯

  • @nuruworldinsight2957
    @nuruworldinsight2957 3 роки тому +2

    I didn't aware of these close similarities of these beautiful languages. Thank you so much for educating me about. I will be on touch with your channel to learn mor.
    💓❤💓

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      Karibu sana and thanks for watching

    • @nuruworldinsight2957
      @nuruworldinsight2957 3 роки тому

      @@swaziinkenya Umh Zanele , i have been listening to these words from your local languages and found have similarities with SWAHILI in pronouncing but i am not sure if have the same meaning in your languages too.
      These words are :-
      1. Yetu / wetu in English ours - - in your language _ _ _ ?
      2. Nawe (au na wewe) in English and /with you - - in your language _ _ _ ?
      3. Wako /yako - - in English your / yours - - - in your language _ _ _ ?

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому +1

      @@nuruworldinsight2957 we have yetfu is Siswati... in Zulu it's yethu and swahili yetu which means ours... yakhe Siswati (indlu yakhe)/ yake Swahili (nyumba yake) meaning his/her house and a whole lot of them. I can do a video with these other similar words

    • @nuruworldinsight2957
      @nuruworldinsight2957 3 роки тому

      @@swaziinkenya Thanx for the info. Am eagerly waiting for the video, Zanele

  • @yvekay5139
    @yvekay5139 3 роки тому

    Interesting in deed

  • @kamande012
    @kamande012 2 роки тому

    Waaah....Kikuyu is always like direct Kiswahili.....like...ng'ombe-ng'ombe
    Mbuzi- mburi, kuku-nguku,. Kiti-giti,. Mlima- kirima.....

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  2 роки тому

      Very true, stay tuned for my Kikuyu video it's coming out soon

  • @angolile
    @angolile 3 роки тому +3

    Am from Tanzania 🇹🇿👍 you are absolutely right .........

  • @mako331
    @mako331 3 роки тому +1

    This is good Ahasante kutujuza hili sisi wote ni wabantu wish Kiswahili ingekuwa lugha ya Afrika

  • @richardsaimon6325
    @richardsaimon6325 3 роки тому +1

    Safi sana

  • @nangithia
    @nangithia Рік тому

    Lovely! I had asked you to teach us some Swati words on another post. I'd not seen this! We share so much! I like!

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  Рік тому

      Oh great, yes there is just too much in common and it's time everyone knows this so we can all embrace each other

  • @wambosworld
    @wambosworld 4 роки тому +2

    Your hair is looking good..

  • @t1910j
    @t1910j 3 роки тому

    Absolutely true. I’m a Swahili speaker and I couldn’t agree more.

  • @davenjogu7890
    @davenjogu7890 3 роки тому

    Good content. Angalia kamera

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  3 роки тому

      Ahsante sana nimeimprove check my latest videos

  • @esimahlenimkhize3700
    @esimahlenimkhize3700 3 роки тому +2

    Love Africa

  • @Morgan_Faraday_Makaka
    @Morgan_Faraday_Makaka 2 роки тому +2

    Great lesson...from KE🇰🇪
    When you take Zulu+Swahili+Xhosa=Luhya

    • @swaziinkenya
      @swaziinkenya  2 роки тому

      I have been told many times that Luhya is similar to these languages I will have to visit western Kenya soon

    • @Morgan_Faraday_Makaka
      @Morgan_Faraday_Makaka 2 роки тому

      @@swaziinkenya Welcome