Amazing, I'm Shona and I listen to Music from Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and I understand what they're singing about, Bantu people are one, our ancestors moved from.up north to Zimbabwe . One love ❤
@@kintuslounge253 I fully agree with you but how can we get Uganda music? I'm based in Sauth Africa can you give me two or more Ugandan musicians so that I can download it.
98% of the Words you’ve compared are the same in my language ..I am Rwandan, which means We really need a bantu dictionnary. Thanks for this content. Love it from France
Unfortunately u are very reluctant people to understand cultures, behaviours outside buganda. That's why u are so weak unfortunately u think it's a source of strength to ignore them and yet all bantu people got a common enemy.
Not just appearance even accent! My mums friend is from Zimbabwe her and accent sounds Ugandan im not even lying like I didn't even know she was Zimbabwen. Her accent sounds like ours its surprising
Thanks sister. I stayed on Tanzania in the the seventies.....said to some of my friends,Tanganyika as a word has more meaning in Shona language than any of East African dialects,not knowing ChiLuganda is similar as you demonstrated. Thanks for the good work
I think the similarities are not only between Shona and Luganda. I think more than 90% of words used as examples are found in most Bantu languages, like Ndebele (north and south), Zulu, nyanja, chewa and Sotho languages too. This goes to show we are one people despite the perceived animosity which are often exploited by our haters as Africans
As with Luganda, there are dialects in Shona: so Meso is also Shona for eyes, and kurya for earing, is also used in Shona. Shona then refers to face as kumeso. Etc. Interesting post, well done.
Thank you so much for the content. Am a native luganda speaker I googled and also found d out that if I compare Zulu language some words are the same such as eye, sky, water, e.t.c I had never had of shona language wow. I think East Africa now needs a WRITTING SYSTEM am personally working on that as I have to put a lot into consideration such as. That our languages are tonal, systax and so on. Insh-Allah I will do some thing for our Bantu languages.
The same here. Thanks for liking. I have also noticed similarities between Luganda and many more languagues as l will demonstrate in my other videos. Your idea is very good and l don't mind being part of it.
This is why Kiswahili will be very easy for people from southern African Country’s to Learn Kiswahili as it has their derelict already in most of the their languages
On that note, you may want to start with a reconciled Bantu Dictionary. The best way of doing it is by entering all Bantu dictionaries into an excel spreadsheet, which will help you arrange all the similar words in alphabetical order.
I know many Shona words and their English meanings which I know can relate well to many other bantu languages. E.g Mombe/Ngombe (cow) Huku (Chicken) Imba (house) Amai (Mum) Baba (Father) Famba (walk) Gogo (Grand mother) Roora (Lobola) Muroyi (witch) Mbwanana (puppy) And many others
There are also similarities with Oshiwambo of Namibia. I am Shona and came across similar words like nyama, matako, mvura, ndatumwa, watumwa etc in Oshiwambo. Words that rhyme similarly are munzira ---- monjila, kumba ------ keumbo, mumba ----- membo, imbwa ------ ombwa, nguruve ---- shingulu, mbudzi ----- ombudi, mombe ----- ongombe, ndikumirire ------ ndikutekelele, ndafa nenzara ------ ndasonjala, mari ------ shimaliwa, enda ------ inda, enda uko ------ inda kwi, tarisa ----- tala, tambira ----- tambula, rara ---- lala, yangu ----- yange, uripi ----- ulipeni. On counting; imwe, mbiri, tatu, ina ----- imwe, mbali, tatu, ne.
This is so true my mum has a friend who is from Zimbabwe and I always hear her saying these words and you notice Zimbabwe also have similar accent to Ugandans.. it's so interesting.. this why I'm proud of being bantu we are so interesting we have so many similarities.. I'm definitely subscribing ❤❤
Thank you for your comment,which Bantu are you? Myself l got interested because my husband speaks Shona, so when l was in their company l noticed the LUGANDA words in Shona eventually finding out they had same meaning.
@@kintuslounge253 well my mum can speak Luganda, Lusoga, Kinyarwanda and Kiswahili but in our family we speak swahili 🥰 my mum grew up in jinja Uganda but also was brought up in Kenya and my mums mum is Rwandanese so were pretty mixed with a lot of East African countries 😅 but swahili is our mother tounge since we was kids 🥰
We are Bantu. We are one. We are children of Shem and Japhet after the flood. One daddy, one Mwari, Sonini naNini, the Most High. We are the people. We are who we are. The white man knows it but we don't know it. And so we follow religion, Christianity, lslam, etç. Yet , yet we are Bantu, a way of living. We are a Royal Priesthood. Kings and Queens. Much respect to you Queen Susan
@@kintuslounge253 This is the greatest mystery of all time. The translators of the bible, like Josephus, hid Ham between Japhet and Shem so that you will not see the deception. Ham is Cain's great-grandchild after the flood - that is how the devil continued after the flood and you wonder how? He probably hid in the cave or in the ark. But that is what happened. Change the names on the Table of Nations between Ham and Japhet and you have the correct genealogies. Who was in the South when Abraham went into the South, Japhet's Children! Not Ham. Read the Apocrypha and you will see/hear that Noah had 2 sons, Japhet and Shem. That is one of the reasons they were removed from the bible. More to come..Peace.
Shona does not have "L" and so the word "muzukulu" in Luganda is "muzukuru" in Shona. Great to know that Luganda and Shona are languages that are very close to each other.
In Luganda we have both L and R but in speaking we only have L. R isnt pronounced as R and many Baganda have difficulties pronouncing r in english or Kinyankole . In writing, we use r only when it follows vouls e and i. e.g fire- Omuliro is pronounced as Omulilo without r but in writing we put r because there is i ( or e).
Thank you sister. This great initiative Susan. I was in Uganda a few months ago and I was shocked as I could understand the words. It's amazing how our bantu languages are so simple and similar. We need to educate ourselves more about our languages and ourselves than learning French and those European languages. Well done. Makorokoto, Amhlope Congratulations. From Down Under, Australia
@@munhu1196 l thank you for liking my work and l hope many get to think exactly like you. Language is part of our identity and we should promote our languages everywhere to drive us forward.
At least over 90% of the words here are the same as Swahili here in Kenya(Swahili being a heavily Bantu inspired language) Thanks for this, it gives us some insights into our past, which is a very important element in understanding ourselves better as Africans
Yes thanks for your input I m Ugandan and MuKenyan But l get pissed off when Ugandan people in all people of Eastern Africa would say that they don’t know Kiswahili. I can never understand to why in the world they would behave ignorantly like that towards Swahili.. but then they say that understand Zimbabwe’s language which is mills apart.from Luganda and Kiswahili
@Jessen.. I think you are wrong, I personally don't speak swahili. My mother language is luganda. And I think my brother speaks kikuyu better than Swahili.
@@apolokabali7595 okay so what you are saying is that Luganda language is more popular than Kiswahili. So is that your point…I will 100% disagree with you and that your opinion is some how wrong I want you to remember That Luganda language is only spoken in central Uganda..other parts of Ugandan people speak their own languages and Luganda is not one of them..you see the thing is lots Baganda people are extremely ignorant and they are weakest link to Baganda people not Learning and speaking Kiswahili However Kiswahili is moving forward in the world and is one of the fastest growing African language in the world So don’t be ignorant just join in and go with the Crowd maybe you will enjoy it.. 250, million Kiswahili speakers cannot be wrong. Compared with 2 1/2 million people speaking Luganda..so Swahili is the future Swahili is the best African language make your own research and you will find the answers to what I’m saying to be nothing but the fact and truth about Kiswahili …personally I’m from Uganda. And I’m not Baganda. So you can imagine from my tribe is not even Bantu but Kiswahili is the only language that I find to ease to communicate with other Ugandans within my Country
If we agree that our forefathers stayed together those old days in those lands now called sudan some moved southwards passing through Uganda, tanzania and up to Zimbabwe ad southafrica some westward and eastward but we are one family. Our mudzimu is one.
Thanks for sharing. This only makes history much alive indeed. Now I have all it takes to believe what we were taught in school about Bantu migration. For me as a person speaking Luganda gets deep rooted on how far our fore great great great great grand parents came from. I thank the almighty creator(Katonda) for the gift of life and to be able to bring people who can share such useful information.
Thank you for your support. Getting exposed to other Africans got me to dig into this because l could pick words out of their vocabulary l would understand. One time we must have been one, but time, movement and experiences influences languages. I believe that what happened.
There was an Ugandan who used to argue that the late Zimbabwean president Mugabe was Ugandan. He claimed that there are more Mugabes in Uganda than in Zimbabwe.
@@PatSenoga I referenced 'Omugabe'/"obugabe" in an earlier post. When President Mugabe ruled, I was thinking how dignified and fitting was his stature as National Leader: It was as if one of the 'Omugabe' Ancestors re-incarnated as ruler of Zimbabwe.
History tells us that all Shona comes from Guruuswa...Guru (Big) uswa ( Grass). Modern day Uganda and Tanzania somewhere there. This is way before the Berlin conference, our ancestors when they migrated , all that they remember is the geographic landscape . ( place where you find big grass ( Guruuswa).
Hi like your explanation, I'm shangan originally from Mozambique and as I listened to you calling the words, some or most of them are similar to the shangan words as well. Example: mbudzi, (mbuti) njovu(ndlopfu)kulima(kurima) Mali(male)and I can tell you that if we do more research we can discover more similarities in our languages, in short words we are one.
Susan thank you for your language similarity. Yes bantu ancestral tribe evolved from shores of East and Central Africa, but due to disagreements family segregate, and move on either for whatever reasons, such as searching for green pastures. Bantu being the African dominantly group, they moved from East and Central following the Great Lift Valley of Africa, capturing territories, ending up to bunks of Atlantic ocean. And even some went to extreme measures to crossing all Atlantic ocean and ended up in now called Australia, or plus all those small Irelands such as Fig😅😊
I once lived close to a family from Uganda in Germany, next there were 2 middle age women from my Country Zimbabwe. When the group was together I would greet the Zimbabweans with ' maswerasei' (how has been/spend your day) And the Uganda man always had a smirk. Later he told me it sounds like 'how have you fucked for him'. But in Shona it would be masvirasei. But nobody would ever ask anyone that in Zim.
Oh oh! this does not make sense to me. But who am l to say. In Uganda we have many tribes, may be in his tribe. Or else he was being a dirty old man. However there some words which are spoken in Shona and these same words have different meaning in Luganda.
Madam Susan, i gather from your Shona equivalents to Luganda to sound much more like our Lusoga in Uganda. I actually had a Musoga friend who visited Zimbabwe ans told me he spoke his Lusoga untranslated, and he also understood Shona without a word of translation for him. Could you look into that possibility of may be comparing Lusoga to Shona. I understand the Shona also dance by the waist like both Baganda and Basoga..😊
After reading your comment i had to go and listen to Lusoga language. I speak Shona and i could not understand anything but the language sounds like that of Zimbia
Enjoyed that, according to our elder Rtd Maj, Hajji Nadduli's research, it was discovered that the first king of Buganda (Kintu) fred Buganda to Zambia and while there he married a zambian woman and bore children it is said that as they multiplied in numbers some of them immigrated to all the neighbouring countries like Malawi, Zimbabwe e.t.c in otherwords all those tribes whose languages are similar to luganda are surely Buganda's grandchildren.
This is news to me, Susan. I know that the Bantu languages have many similarities in vocabularly. But I had not expected such close similarity between our Luganda and the Shona language of Zimbabwe. Kinyarwanda of Rwanda is the other language I can think of whose alphabet is the same as the Luganda one, the two differing in only one letter. Thank you very much for this tutorial. Well done.
@@kintuslounge253Nyabo webale kusiima. Kyokka erinnya lyange Kaggwa siryakika wabula lya balongo. Nga era bw'omanyi nti oli azadde abalongo n'abaana b'azadde bonna baba n'amannya, okusinziira mu nnono n'obuwangwa bwaffe Abaganda. Galaga nti bebabazadde n'abaana baabwe abalongo oba nti baazaalibwa nabo. Mu mannya ago mwemuli Nalongo nyabwe ne Salongo kitaabwe. Bbo abaana baabwe batera okutuumimwa amannya nga gano: Kigongo, Babirye, Nakato, Wasswa, Kato, Kizza, Kaggwa, Kigongo. Nze nzira ku balongo bannyinaze Babirye ne Nakato, kwe kuntuuma Kaggwa, kyokka nga neddira Mmamba (Kakoboza, omutaka ye Gabunga). Ndi mutabani w'omugenzi Salongo Luzinda.
Yes! It is not just the shared 'Bantu' language: Many other cultural behaviors are shared by the 'Bantu' people. Bantu speakers share the same fundamental Ubuntu spirit of community.
In primary they told us a story about Kintu being the first Muganda and his wife Nambi, now this channel is called Kintu's lounge isn't this so amazing? We are one family!
Iam in the US originally from Buganda, i have a workmate whom i consider as a sister because of so much that we share language wise including her name and she's from Goma eastern Congo. During my time at the university, my best friend was from Zambia and we could understand each other while communicating in our native languages.
SRSLY!? This is like regardless of where we come from I think all the NTU people can communicate or understand each other. Thanks dear SRSLY this is an amazing similarities bring us more darling
Even more interesting is the grammatical structure. For example English has 'the' for everything, French ' La and Le' categoriezed in male or female, Germany has 3' der, die, das', male, female and neutral for every object. But those bantu languages like Uganda and Shona have between 19 to 21 classes.
We also say the exact words...the only difference was elephant which they called enjovu which we, in Runyankore/Rukiga, call "enjojo".............the rest is all the same! eh, even the hippo, we call it "enjubu" which they call "envubu" in luganda, and it's almost the same. I forgot "kuyimba" singing which we call "okweshongora"......even digging, we call okuhinga not okulima. Okulima to us is to dig a hole, but not to dig a garden...otherwise, they are all the same like mukazi, kufa, kunywa, embwa, embuzi, omwana, omwijukuru, et cetera....the same!
@@mushabirenahiirwabright2207 thank you my dear, we from the same country yet we had not discovered we had similar words due to English language enforced in schools. We are just waking up to this knowledge
The San people are the original natives of southern africa. Our Bantu ancestors came from the North during the iron age and came with the bantu languages which evolved over time. Interaction with the San people in the south introduced clicks to the languages further south resulting in clicks found in ndebele, xhosa, Zulu, sotho etc. But most bantu people can understand each other if they speak slowly. Hence its easy for us to understand a Zulu song as well as a swahili song or any bantu song. We are one!!!! All bantu people share the same common ancestors before some decided to migrate south. So I can safely say southern African languages came from Northern languages
@@h.m.5724 But you have to remember for the people in South Africa, all the countries on the upper parts are in the north. Although according to history, the African map is upside down, South Africa should be the north. This was all intended, but l won't go there.
This is true most East African languages and Uganda main language sounds Shona I have Mjomba's from Uganda and I can hear most of what they say and Shona and Kinyarwanda sound very much similar. I think Zimbabwean teachers who are going to teach in Rwanda will easily embrace Kinyarwanda.
Me i think in the beginning when people was still few they used to stay together in one place. So in history if i am not mistaken people was moved from north Africa to Southern Africa in searching of hunting and looking for good grazing lands. So in a nut shell i can say our forefathers are one. We're brothers and sisters indeed.
In the holly book it says people were speaking the same language up untill when they decided to build a tower and that where tings changed when the creator demolished the tower.
Hello. Motswana here. Speaking Setswana of Botswana. How to say; Mosadi; Woman Nama; Meat (any meat) Go ja; To eat Lenyora; Thirst Ngwanawangwa; Grandchild Motlogolo; Nephew/Niece Tlou; Elephant Go anega/go kaletsa; To hang (clothes) Go khubana; To kneel Go obama; To bow Madi; Money Go felegetsa/go buledisa; To escort/to accompany Ntsa; Dog Pudi; Goat Go lema; To plough Go epa; To dig Go nwa; To drink Go botsa; To ask Ke eng; What is it Molemo; Medicine Setlhare; Tree Kubu ; Hippo Go opela; To sing Modimo; God Moya; Spirit Go swa; To die Matlho; Eyes Aswefully similar. Not anyless expected from bantu languages (puo ya batho ba Africa) MaAfrika Dipuo tse di a tshwana.
Thank you for the video but there are a few corrections. Please note that there is no letter “L” in Shona. You said money in Shona is Mali but it’s actually “mari”, farming is not kulima but “kurima”. Otherwise it’s true there are several similarities amongst all Bantu languages.🙏🏾
Even more interesting is the similar grammatical structure. For example English has only just 'the' for everything, French ' La and Le' categoriezed in male or female, Germany has 3' der, die, das', male, female and neutral for every object. But those bantu languages like Luganda and Shona have between 19 to 21 classes.
Is true , I am from North Angola , most of words expressed they are similar to my language Kikongo , myself I spook to many my friends and I show them this similarities , we have common ancestral , that is true .
Im a zimbabwean staying in SA with kenyans and ugandians and now i understand them if they speaking swahili and Luganda serious is the same language bcz many words are smiller
"responsible for separating us"? lol The dispersion of 'Bantu' speakers may well have been originally 'of Natural cause'! It would appear that there are Natural Cycles of 'Gathering together' and 'Scattering', gathering and scattering, etc, etc of the peoples. It is not much different from the Natural Process of 'children maturing and leaving home', then making their own home with the next generation of 'children again maturing and leaving home', etc, etc. This means that it could be time once again for 'Bantu' speakers (and Africans in general) to Assimilate & Integrate in the spirit of Ubuntu.
I am a Shona speaking Zimbabwean. Its important to note that the Shona language does not have (L), (x) and Q letters. Its amazing though, with the distance separating the two countries the words are the same. We are the bantu❤
The origins of the Shona people are in East Africa, around Unganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda. Nyabhingi the great female leader migrated from East Africa and settled in the area around Great Zimbabwe
Interesting that most of the Luganda words and their meaning are also similar to the Ndebele language in Zim and the Zulu language in South Africa e.g Nyama - meat Ukudla - eating Mzukulu-grandchild Ndlovu - elephant Imali - money Phelekezela - escort Ukulima - process of farming Buza - ask Umuthi - tree Imvubu - hippopotamus Ukufa - to die Iso - eye, (not sure in plural) We definitely are one people
The channel is called "Kintu's Lounge". Interestingly, in Luganda the word "Kintu" means "a thing" then in Plural it is "bintu/ ebintu". I believe it is "Zvinu" in Shona.
❤❤❤ Amazing! I can't believe it. Both languages, specifically the luganda sound like my mother's dialects known as Kaninghi and Ki tsayi ( Sub-groups belonging to the Teke ethno-linguistic people in the Congo Bassin). Indeed, in my mother's dialect, we say 1) mukasi : woman 2) gnama : meat 3) idza (kulia*): to eat 4) mwana: child 5) Ndzogho : elephant/ my father's dialect rather uses " "Nzoku" just as the Zulu unless I'm mistaken. 6) fumuna, (fukama*): to bend, to bow down 7) mva, i(mbua*): dog 8) ignua, (ku gnua*): to drink 9) fula : ask 10) tchisa ? : Are you okay ? 11) muti : a tree 12) mvubu: hippo 13) i yima : to sing 14) ikwa, ( kufua*): to die. Note : The variations into (..*) are mostly common in the kituba language of the Congos. Thank you very much for the content. Stay blessed and keep it going. Proud to be Bantu and israelite !
Therefore Shona people must stop claiming to be original inhabitants of Zimbabwe to Ndebele people otherwise they came from East Africa, and so Ndebeles came from South, so the thing is we are all Bantus,we should unite for good reason.
Both Shona and Ndebele come from East Africa. The San are the original inhabitants of modern-day Zimbabwe. Likely the Ndebeles and all those in SA would have passed by Zim of their way south
its only that Ndebeles came more than 800 years later after spending too much time south however please not shonas are not one monolith other tribes like the karanga,Ndau came much earlier others much later the only common theme amongst them is they all came at least 400 to to 800 years later than the Ndebele while at it the Tonga where the first Bantu to call Zimbabwe home longer than the Shona. However the key to the future is us all knowing the Bantu nation will be one again and God himself will select the King not before cleaning our blood.I know this is too much dont read into it otherwise you will go deeper than you want too.
Need to learn please, sentence and construction, l started to learn Swahili most are similar, like, on counting, 1 to 10, moja, motsi, mbili, piri, tatu, tatu, ine, ina, tanu, shanu, so interesting.
It's wonderful! Let's trace it from Genesis 11 and discover that the holy Bible has everything which is happening on earth according to Isaiah 34 v 16.
Had it not been for our greed leaders coupled with Western interference we should done away with these small little countries created by our former oppressors.We are truly one people . The similarities in our languages clearly illustrates that we share the same ancestors.
Some of African languages are similar South African Xhosa/Zulu umntwana a(child) mzukulwana/mzukulu (grand child)mbuzi (goat)kufa (die) like Shwahili words such as kuona to see (ukubona)kulala,wap(H)I we just put H btn p and I iphi (where)
I learnt at Africa University in Zimbabwe,Mutare. Students from Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda spoke Shona fluently 😂.
Wow. Are you Zimbabwean yourself
Mutare is my village💪👍
Mutare is a city@@BonganiMagadu
Amazing, I'm Shona and I listen to Music from Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and I understand what they're singing about, Bantu people are one, our ancestors moved from.up north to Zimbabwe . One love ❤
One love indeed, thank you
One love indeed, don't forget to add shangan: nyama is nyama, munyu, famba, huku, same meaning same spelling thank you.
Bravo, one way of learning a language better is through music .
@@kintuslounge253 I fully agree with you but how can we get Uganda music? I'm based in Sauth Africa can you give me two or more Ugandan musicians so that I can download it.
Can u send me Tanzania and Luganda hope I will enjoy it to the fullest
I have a privilege to speak both Luganda and Shona fluently. Webale nyo Mama Suzie!
Teach me please
I'm a musoga from Uganda But when I went to Zim it took me 9 months to start communicating in shona, shona is the earliest language to learn
98% of the Words you’ve compared are the same in my language ..I am Rwandan, which means We really need a bantu dictionnary. Thanks for this content. Love it from France
Thank you for the comment. That idea of a Bantu dictionary is really great.
That's very, we need to put these words together to benefit us and those who would like to know as well as our future generations
I love the Kinyarwanda dictionary, it has the meaning of some of the words including Zimbabwean names
@@kintuslounge253in uganda we have Abakiga abanyakore abatooro abanyooro they speak the same😂
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I speak Luganda, I was shocked to find out I understand most Southern African languages. Omg, we are one people ❤😊
Unfortunately u are very reluctant people to understand cultures, behaviours outside buganda. That's why u are so weak unfortunately u think it's a source of strength to ignore them and yet all bantu people got a common enemy.
Yes we are one.
Shona people migrated from the great lakes around lake Tanganyika to the southern region. You will find same surnames in Zimbabwe and Uganda
Yes, the bantu speakers of Southern Africa who are Nguni speakers came from Central Africa that's why there's a similarity of languages.
They are Bantu languages
So amazing how beautiful and connected Shona and Luganda languages, much love from the Mexican Nation! 🇲🇽💜🇿🇼🇺🇬
Thank you for appreciating.
Muy bien amigo
Am a muganda from buganda but i noticed we not only share the same words but we also have the same physical appearance
Thank you for sharing that info.
Not just appearance even accent! My mums friend is from Zimbabwe her and accent sounds Ugandan im not even lying like I didn't even know she was Zimbabwen. Her accent sounds like ours its surprising
Can we be friends for sure
Thanks sister. I stayed on Tanzania in the the seventies.....said to some of my friends,Tanganyika as a word has more meaning in Shona language than any of East African dialects,not knowing ChiLuganda is similar as you demonstrated.
Thanks for the good work
i was once in kenya and uganda .i could understand most of the words though im from zimbabwe.We are truly brothers and sisters.
Thank you for your comment. That's very true.
I think the similarities are not only between Shona and Luganda. I think more than 90% of words used as examples are found in most Bantu languages, like Ndebele (north and south), Zulu, nyanja, chewa and Sotho languages too. This goes to show we are one people despite the perceived animosity which are often exploited by our haters as Africans
I do agree with 100%
aaahhh why you lie . only shona you have common words
You are very right. I wish many could realise and we promote obuntu amongst ourselves.
Do your research before you accuse people of lying.
@@kintuslounge253 kkkkkk he is just adding comment don't mind him Just keep up good work of uniting us African bantu. Love you my sister.
As with Luganda, there are dialects in Shona: so Meso is also Shona for eyes, and kurya for earing, is also used in Shona. Shona then refers to face as kumeso. Etc. Interesting post, well done.
Thank you for liking.
Am from BUGANDA KINGDOM. But i always listen to guys from Zimbabwe n Zambia n malawi .and i understand them😊💪
Thanks for your comment.
Thank you so much for the content.
Am a native luganda speaker I googled and also found d out that if I compare Zulu language some words are the same such as eye, sky, water, e.t.c I had never had of shona language wow. I think East Africa now needs a WRITTING SYSTEM am personally working on that as I have to put a lot into consideration such as. That our languages are tonal, systax and so on. Insh-Allah I will do some thing for our Bantu languages.
The same here. Thanks for liking. I have also noticed similarities between Luganda and many more languagues as l will demonstrate in my other videos. Your idea is very good and l don't mind being part of it.
This is why Kiswahili will be very easy for people from southern African Country’s to Learn Kiswahili as it has their derelict already in most of the their languages
That's very true.
@@summerbrightbright4602 you are very right.
On that note, you may want to start with a reconciled Bantu Dictionary. The best way of doing it is by entering all Bantu dictionaries into an excel spreadsheet, which will help you arrange all the similar words in alphabetical order.
I know many Shona words and their English meanings which I know can relate well to many other bantu languages. E.g
Mombe/Ngombe (cow)
Huku (Chicken)
Imba (house)
Amai (Mum)
Baba (Father)
Famba (walk)
Gogo (Grand mother)
Roora (Lobola)
Muroyi (witch)
Mbwanana (puppy)
And many others
Thanks for that information.
Thank you for your contribution.
Where are you from ? I shona
I am Ugandan.
@successmike, Gogo is not shona though we sometimes use it, we say AMBUYA is (grandmother) and ambuya (mother in law) the key is how you stress word.
There are also similarities with Oshiwambo of Namibia. I am Shona and came across similar words like nyama, matako, mvura, ndatumwa, watumwa etc in Oshiwambo. Words that rhyme similarly are munzira ---- monjila, kumba ------ keumbo, mumba ----- membo, imbwa ------ ombwa, nguruve ---- shingulu, mbudzi ----- ombudi, mombe ----- ongombe, ndikumirire ------ ndikutekelele, ndafa nenzara ------ ndasonjala, mari ------ shimaliwa, enda ------ inda, enda uko ------ inda kwi, tarisa ----- tala, tambira ----- tambula, rara ---- lala, yangu ----- yange, uripi ----- ulipeni. On counting; imwe, mbiri, tatu, ina ----- imwe, mbali, tatu, ne.
great thanks for taking time to type I did learn
I speak Lhukonzo/Nande and I come from Western Uganda/Eastern DRC and I clearly hear the Shona language.
Most people on the chat from various countries, l notice they do understand Shona. Amazing
This is so true my mum has a friend who is from Zimbabwe and I always hear her saying these words and you notice Zimbabwe also have similar accent to Ugandans.. it's so interesting.. this why I'm proud of being bantu we are so interesting we have so many similarities.. I'm definitely subscribing ❤❤
Thank you for your comment,which Bantu are you? Myself l got interested because my husband speaks Shona, so when l was in their company l noticed the LUGANDA words in Shona eventually finding out they had same meaning.
Thank you my Dear. I do appreciate your contribution.
@@kintuslounge253 well my mum can speak Luganda, Lusoga, Kinyarwanda and Kiswahili but in our family we speak swahili 🥰 my mum grew up in jinja Uganda but also was brought up in Kenya and my mums mum is Rwandanese so were pretty mixed with a lot of East African countries 😅 but swahili is our mother tounge since we was kids 🥰
The same words are similar in kinyarwanda
@@edwardnkurunziza7137 yes as well. Shona I's similar to luganda swahili and kinyarwanda
We are Bantu. We are one. We are children of Shem and Japhet after the flood. One daddy, one Mwari, Sonini naNini, the Most High. We are the people. We are who we are. The white man knows it but we don't know it. And so we follow religion, Christianity, lslam, etç.
Yet , yet we are Bantu, a way of living. We are a Royal Priesthood. Kings and Queens.
Much respect to you Queen Susan
Just a small correction, we are descendants of Shem and Ham. Japhet gave rise to the Europeans. Thank you, much appreciated for that information.
@@kintuslounge253 This is the greatest mystery of all time. The translators of the bible, like Josephus, hid Ham between Japhet and Shem so that you will not see the deception. Ham is Cain's great-grandchild after the flood - that is how the devil continued after the flood and you wonder how? He probably hid in the cave or in the ark. But that is what happened. Change the names on the Table of Nations between Ham and Japhet and you have the correct genealogies. Who was in the South when Abraham went into the South, Japhet's Children! Not Ham. Read the Apocrypha and you will see/hear that Noah had 2 sons, Japhet and Shem. That is one of the reasons they were removed from the bible. More to come..Peace.
Shona does not have "L" and so the word "muzukulu" in Luganda is "muzukuru" in Shona. Great to know that Luganda and Shona are languages that are very close to each other.
Thanks for your comment.
Very true I always listen to Ugandan musicians but the words made me get shocked because they are the same
It's a big revelation.we are one big family
In Luganda we have both L and R but in speaking we only have L. R isnt pronounced as R and many Baganda have difficulties pronouncing r in english or Kinyankole . In writing, we use r only when it follows vouls e and i. e.g fire- Omuliro is pronounced as Omulilo without r but in writing we put r because there is i ( or e).
Nzou or ndlovu in Ndebele and ndlovu in luganda.
Thank you sister. This great initiative Susan.
I was in Uganda a few months ago and I was shocked as I could understand the words. It's amazing how our bantu languages are so simple and similar. We need to educate ourselves more about our languages and ourselves than learning French and those European languages.
Well done.
Makorokoto, Amhlope Congratulations.
From Down Under, Australia
@@munhu1196 l thank you for liking my work and l hope many get to think exactly like you. Language is part of our identity and we should promote our languages everywhere to drive us forward.
We are one people who were separated by colonialists.
At least over 90% of the words here are the same as Swahili here in Kenya(Swahili being a heavily Bantu inspired language)
Thanks for this, it gives us some insights into our past, which is a very important element in understanding ourselves better as Africans
Thank you for liking. That's what l also believe. We are one big family and we don't even know it.
Yes thanks for your input
I m Ugandan and MuKenyan But l get pissed off when Ugandan people in all people of Eastern Africa would say that they don’t know Kiswahili. I can never understand to why in the world they would behave ignorantly like that towards Swahili.. but then they say that understand Zimbabwe’s language which is mills apart.from Luganda and Kiswahili
swahili isn't bantu inspired. It's a bantu base language with vocabulary addition from arabic lol.
@Jessen..
I think you are wrong, I personally don't speak swahili. My mother language is luganda. And I think my brother speaks kikuyu better than Swahili.
@@apolokabali7595 okay so what you are saying is that Luganda language is more popular than Kiswahili.
So is that your point…I will 100% disagree with you and that your opinion is some how wrong
I want you to remember That Luganda language is only spoken in central Uganda..other parts of Ugandan people speak their own languages and Luganda is not one of them..you see the thing is lots Baganda people are extremely ignorant and they are weakest link to Baganda people not Learning and speaking Kiswahili
However Kiswahili is moving forward in the world and is one of the fastest growing African language in the world
So don’t be ignorant just join in and go with the Crowd maybe you will enjoy it..
250, million Kiswahili speakers cannot be wrong. Compared with 2 1/2 million people speaking Luganda..so Swahili is the future Swahili is the best African language make your own research and you will find the answers to what I’m saying to be nothing but the fact and truth about Kiswahili …personally
I’m from Uganda. And I’m not Baganda.
So you can imagine from my tribe is not even Bantu but Kiswahili is the only language that I find to ease to communicate with other Ugandans within my Country
I visited Unganda and I understood most of the communication around .Am Lozi speaker which is a Bantu language
We are really one people, the colonialists really broke us apart using artificial boundaries I wish for a United Africa!
I wish for the same too. We should unite in our diversity.
If we agree that our forefathers stayed together those old days in those lands now called sudan some moved southwards passing through Uganda, tanzania and up to Zimbabwe ad southafrica some westward and eastward but we are one family. Our mudzimu is one.
Thanks for sharing. This only makes history much alive indeed. Now I have all it takes to believe what we were taught in school about Bantu migration. For me as a person speaking Luganda gets deep rooted on how far our fore great great great great grand parents came from. I thank the almighty creator(Katonda) for the gift of life and to be able to bring people who can share such useful information.
Thank you for your support. Getting exposed to other Africans got me to dig into this because l could pick words out of their vocabulary l would understand. One time we must have been one, but time, movement and experiences influences languages. I believe that what happened.
We use both in Xitsonga language... Mahlo and matihlo it means eyes
That is really interesting. Thank you for informing us.
There was an Ugandan who used to argue that the late Zimbabwean president Mugabe was Ugandan. He claimed that there are more Mugabes in Uganda than in Zimbabwe.
For sure I'm Uganda & that sounds about true. We even have kingdom of ankole, traditionally known as obugabe bean ankole. Their king is Mugabe(king)
@@PatSenoga
I referenced 'Omugabe'/"obugabe" in an earlier post.
When President Mugabe ruled, I was thinking how dignified and fitting was his stature as National Leader: It was as if one of the 'Omugabe' Ancestors re-incarnated as ruler of Zimbabwe.
History tells us that all Shona comes from Guruuswa...Guru (Big) uswa ( Grass). Modern day Uganda and Tanzania somewhere there. This is way before the Berlin conference, our ancestors when they migrated , all that they remember is the geographic landscape . ( place where you find big grass ( Guruuswa).
Yes you're correct
Hi like your explanation, I'm shangan originally from Mozambique and as I listened to you calling the words, some or most of them are similar to the shangan words as well. Example: mbudzi, (mbuti) njovu(ndlopfu)kulima(kurima) Mali(male)and I can tell you that if we do more research we can discover more similarities in our languages, in short words we are one.
Thank you my sister so many people are coming out saying the same. Thank you for sharing, explanation that's will be nice.
Kirungi nnyo, nkyagadde, thanks so much mukyala Suzan.
The similarities are so striking we are indeed the same people.
WHY FIGHTING DEFINITELY WE ARE ONE.BIG UP MY SISTER.THANK YOU SO MUCH KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.
We also have those words in Kinyarwanda
Yes, you are confirming what some subscribers have said. That's interesting.
Susan thank you for your language similarity.
Yes bantu ancestral tribe evolved from shores of East and Central Africa, but due to disagreements family segregate, and move on either for whatever reasons, such as searching for green pastures. Bantu being the African dominantly group, they moved from East and Central following the Great Lift Valley of Africa, capturing territories, ending up to bunks of Atlantic ocean. And even some went to extreme measures to crossing all Atlantic ocean and ended up in now called Australia, or plus all those small Irelands such as Fig😅😊
I once lived close to a family from Uganda in Germany, next there were 2 middle age women from my Country Zimbabwe. When the group was together I would greet the Zimbabweans with ' maswerasei' (how has been/spend your day) And the Uganda man always had a smirk. Later he told me it sounds like 'how have you fucked for him'. But in Shona it would be masvirasei. But nobody would ever ask anyone that in Zim.
Oh oh! this does not make sense to me. But who am l to say. In Uganda we have many tribes, may be in his tribe. Or else he was being a dirty old man. However there some words which are spoken in Shona and these same words have different meaning in Luganda.
😂😂😂😂 that's hilarious!!
You know in Uganda we have many languages , l did not know thats what it means, perhaps its one of the languages but l have not heard it my language.
True
Im here don't know how, probably UA-cam algorithms. But i enjoyed this piece. Webale tuwereeza mukwano.
Madam Susan, i gather from your Shona equivalents to Luganda to sound much more like our Lusoga in Uganda. I actually had a Musoga friend who visited Zimbabwe ans told me he spoke his Lusoga untranslated, and he also understood Shona without a word of translation for him. Could you look into that possibility of may be comparing Lusoga to Shona. I understand the Shona also dance by the waist like both Baganda and Basoga..😊
Thank you your comment. I will try my best and bring you that content on the similarities between Basoga and Shona.
After reading your comment i had to go and listen to Lusoga language. I speak Shona and i could not understand anything but the language sounds like that of Zimbia
Enjoyed that, according to our elder Rtd Maj, Hajji Nadduli's research, it was discovered that the first king of Buganda (Kintu) fred Buganda to Zambia and while there he married a zambian woman and bore children it is said that as they multiplied in numbers some of them immigrated to all the neighbouring countries like Malawi, Zimbabwe e.t.c in otherwords all those tribes whose languages are similar to luganda are surely Buganda's grandchildren.
Just story tales. Different tribes but with similarities
Amazing, thank you for your comment.
This is news to me, Susan. I know that the Bantu languages have many similarities in vocabularly. But I had not expected such close similarity between our Luganda and the Shona language of Zimbabwe. Kinyarwanda of Rwanda is the other language I can think of whose alphabet is the same as the Luganda one, the two differing in only one letter. Thank you very much for this tutorial. Well done.
Thank you for liking Kaggwa owe ngabi.
@@kintuslounge253Nyabo webale kusiima. Kyokka erinnya lyange Kaggwa siryakika wabula lya balongo. Nga era bw'omanyi nti oli azadde abalongo n'abaana b'azadde bonna baba n'amannya, okusinziira mu nnono n'obuwangwa bwaffe Abaganda. Galaga nti bebabazadde n'abaana baabwe abalongo oba nti baazaalibwa nabo. Mu mannya ago mwemuli Nalongo nyabwe ne Salongo kitaabwe.
Bbo abaana baabwe batera okutuumimwa amannya nga gano: Kigongo, Babirye, Nakato, Wasswa, Kato, Kizza, Kaggwa, Kigongo. Nze nzira ku balongo bannyinaze Babirye ne Nakato, kwe kuntuuma Kaggwa, kyokka nga neddira Mmamba (Kakoboza, omutaka ye Gabunga). Ndi mutabani w'omugenzi Salongo Luzinda.
Thank you for teaching me that information, myself l did not know.
@@kintuslounge253 You are welcome, dear.
@@apolokaggwa6521 what is the meaning of word "NZIRA"
I believe we share the same traditions and cultures also, it is such a wonderful thing that so many countries in Africa have a lot in common.
Yes!
It is not just the shared 'Bantu' language: Many other cultural behaviors are shared by the 'Bantu' people.
Bantu speakers share the same fundamental Ubuntu spirit of community.
In primary they told us a story about Kintu being the first Muganda and his wife Nambi, now this channel is called Kintu's lounge isn't this so amazing? We are one family!
Yes being the first as that legend goes, l wanted to honour him.
Thank you very much am in Zimbabwe and have enjoyed very much.I met some Ugandans like wise so many words are similar.Thanks Susan keep it up.
I appreciate you my brother.
Iam in the US originally from Buganda, i have a workmate whom i consider as a sister because of so much that we share language wise including her name and she's from Goma eastern Congo. During my time at the university, my best friend was from Zambia and we could understand each other while communicating in our native languages.
That goes on to show we are all Bantu and variations have come as a result of time and place.
SRSLY!? This is like regardless of where we come from I think all the NTU people can communicate or understand each other. Thanks dear SRSLY this is an amazing similarities bring us more darling
Thanks for your encouraging words.
My Zimbabwean friend told me 'ndaraara mushe' means ' I slept well' which is close to Rukiga-Runyankore in western Uganda.
Israel code(NTU). House of Jacob (bantu). Truth shall prevail in last days
I am humbled by all your comments. I think we need to find ways to take this to the next level. Any suggestions are welcome.
@@kintuslounge253 True. I'm a linguist & appreciate the good job yo doing
"mushe" is a slang word in Shona meaning "well". The correct Shona statement for "I slept well" is "Ndarara zvakanaka".
I want to thank u. How do I say thank you in Shona?
Great stuff.
We say meso or maziso for eyes in shona. Interestingly very similar.
❤
Even more interesting is the grammatical structure. For example English has 'the' for everything, French ' La and Le' categoriezed in male or female, Germany has 3' der, die, das', male, female and neutral for every object. But those bantu languages like Uganda and Shona have between 19 to 21 classes.
Thank you sister, I'm Shona from Zimbabwe, had always known we are the same people with Ugandans.
Thank you yes all these words they rhyme and mean one thing. As a Zimbabwean I have my family members who are in Uganda. Thank you
You are welcome my dear
We also say the exact words...the only difference was elephant which they called enjovu which we, in Runyankore/Rukiga, call "enjojo".............the rest is all the same! eh, even the hippo, we call it "enjubu" which they call "envubu" in luganda, and it's almost the same. I forgot "kuyimba" singing which we call "okweshongora"......even digging, we call okuhinga not okulima. Okulima to us is to dig a hole, but not to dig a garden...otherwise, they are all the same like mukazi, kufa, kunywa, embwa, embuzi, omwana, omwijukuru, et cetera....the same!
@@mushabirenahiirwabright2207 thank you my dear, we from the same country yet we had not discovered we had similar words due to English language enforced in schools. We are just waking up to this knowledge
I am from Namibia an owambo tribe, bantu. I understand 97% of your words. We are the same guys.
Thank you let us know the words so that we can all know
The San people are the original natives of southern africa. Our Bantu ancestors came from the North during the iron age and came with the bantu languages which evolved over time. Interaction with the San people in the south introduced clicks to the languages further south resulting in clicks found in ndebele, xhosa, Zulu, sotho etc. But most bantu people can understand each other if they speak slowly. Hence its easy for us to understand a Zulu song as well as a swahili song or any bantu song. We are one!!!! All bantu people share the same common ancestors before some decided to migrate south. So I can safely say southern African languages came from Northern languages
Thank you for that insight.
Central and Eastern africa isn't North of Africa you meed verify your facts first
I thank you for your commentry, it is very enriching.
@@h.m.5724 But you have to remember for the people in South Africa, all the countries on the upper parts are in the north. Although according to history, the African map is upside down, South Africa should be the north. This was all intended, but l won't go there.
@@kintuslounge253 My sister you know stuff
In tsonga we say kuyaneka to hang clothes, ndlopfu is elephant... Ntukulu.. Grand child...::: nwana-child 😂 goat-mbuti "" " to eat - kudya
This is true most East African languages and Uganda main language sounds Shona I have Mjomba's from Uganda and I can hear most of what they say and Shona and Kinyarwanda sound very much similar. I think Zimbabwean teachers who are going to teach in Rwanda will easily embrace Kinyarwanda.
That's very true. Language breaks barriers
Nah kinyarwanda sounds similar to kikuyu
@@Tssharif Kikuyu Nooooo. 😄
@@morganbabu3105 bruh kikuyu sounds a bit like kinyarwanda but not fully you should listen to Kinyarwanda and Kikuyu then you will see
But the brutality of the Rwandan regime will scare them away
Me i think in the beginning when people was still few they used to stay together in one place. So in history if i am not mistaken people was moved from north Africa to Southern Africa in searching of hunting and looking for good grazing lands. So in a nut shell i can say our forefathers are one. We're brothers and sisters indeed.
In the holly book it says people were speaking the same language up untill when they decided to build a tower and that where tings changed when the creator demolished the tower.
Wonderful madam excellent work
Actually my Zimbabwean friend was surprised to understand Luganda
Appreciate your contribution.
We are so similar in many ways.Thanks
Nice video. Keep it up
Israel house.
Our bantu languages came from one source.
Thank you so much dear Suzan. Shona has similarities also with rwandan language than Luganda especially,prononciations.
Yes, many people are telling me so. That's wonderful to know.
Hello. Motswana here. Speaking Setswana of Botswana. How to say;
Mosadi;
Woman
Nama;
Meat (any meat)
Go ja;
To eat
Lenyora;
Thirst
Ngwanawangwa;
Grandchild
Motlogolo;
Nephew/Niece
Tlou;
Elephant
Go anega/go kaletsa;
To hang (clothes)
Go khubana;
To kneel
Go obama;
To bow
Madi;
Money
Go felegetsa/go buledisa;
To escort/to accompany
Ntsa;
Dog
Pudi;
Goat
Go lema;
To plough
Go epa;
To dig
Go nwa;
To drink
Go botsa;
To ask
Ke eng;
What is it
Molemo;
Medicine
Setlhare;
Tree
Kubu ;
Hippo
Go opela;
To sing
Modimo;
God
Moya;
Spirit
Go swa;
To die
Matlho;
Eyes
Aswefully similar. Not anyless expected from bantu languages (puo ya batho ba Africa) MaAfrika
Dipuo tse di a tshwana.
Thank you for the video but there are a few corrections. Please note that there is no letter “L” in Shona. You said money in Shona is Mali but it’s actually “mari”, farming is not kulima but “kurima”. Otherwise it’s true there are several similarities amongst all Bantu languages.🙏🏾
Thank you for letting me know and l am sure these interactions are educative to all those interested.
Even more interesting is the similar grammatical structure. For example English has only just 'the' for everything, French ' La and Le' categoriezed in male or female, Germany has 3' der, die, das', male, female and neutral for every object. But those bantu languages like Luganda and Shona have between 19 to 21 classes.
Is true , I am from North Angola , most of words expressed they are similar to my language Kikongo , myself I spook to many my friends and I show them this similarities , we have common ancestral , that is true .
Thats very true, let's us start appreciating one another. We should promote African tourism and celebrate our oneness.
Well done we might have originated from Uganda ❤
You speak with a lot of L s we speak with a lot of Rs
Yes that is very true, thanks for your comment.
Being the Muganda that I am, now I know where I am heading next - Zimbabwe
Hahaha
And you are welcome!
Tinokugamuchirai. We will welcome you.
Thank you for educating us . We appreciate your
Welcome Sis.
Im a zimbabwean staying in SA with kenyans and ugandians and now i understand them if they speaking swahili and Luganda serious is the same language bcz many words are smiller
Suprizing very same words are similar to quite a number of languages in South Africa
Whoever is responsible for separating us should be ashamed of themselves
"responsible for separating us"? lol
The dispersion of 'Bantu' speakers may well have been originally 'of Natural cause'!
It would appear that there are Natural Cycles of 'Gathering together' and 'Scattering', gathering and scattering, etc, etc of the peoples.
It is not much different from the Natural Process of 'children maturing and leaving home', then making their own home with the next generation of 'children again maturing and leaving home', etc, etc.
This means that it could be time once again for 'Bantu' speakers (and Africans in general) to Assimilate & Integrate in the spirit of Ubuntu.
I am a Shona speaking Zimbabwean. Its important to note that the Shona language does not have (L), (x) and Q letters. Its amazing though, with the distance separating the two countries the words are the same. We are the bantu❤
Thank you Sis.
The origins of the Shona people are in East Africa, around Unganda, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda. Nyabhingi the great female leader migrated from East Africa and settled in the area around Great Zimbabwe
I appreciate your contribution. No wonder we share some words and customs.
Very interesting. Much love from 🇿🇼 would love to learn this beautiful language.
I would like to learn this Luganda language
Interesting that most of the Luganda words and their meaning are also similar to the Ndebele language in Zim and the Zulu language in South Africa e.g
Nyama - meat
Ukudla - eating
Mzukulu-grandchild
Ndlovu - elephant
Imali - money
Phelekezela - escort
Ukulima - process of farming
Buza - ask
Umuthi - tree
Imvubu - hippopotamus
Ukufa - to die
Iso - eye, (not sure in plural)
We definitely are one people
Thanks for a such research, that is wonderful, once more I say thanks. Coster Chinhoi Zimbabwe
Thank you for liking.
Nzou, Mwana, Nzukulu, Nyama, Mbui, Kunywa, Kuya, Kuima, Muti, Metho(eyes) in Kikamba, Kenya. Woman is mundu muka
As Africans we are one. Us in the Southern part of Africa we immigrated from the central Africa only the sea stopped us from going further
We went to Madagascar too!!
My goodness. I could actually understand most of the words. Love from Kenya 🇰🇪 ❤️
You are welcome my dear.
The channel is called "Kintu's Lounge". Interestingly, in Luganda the word "Kintu" means "a thing" then in Plural it is "bintu/ ebintu". I believe it is "Zvinu" in Shona.
Yes its zvinhu in Shona
In IsiNdebele spoken in South Africa and Zimbabwe its "Izinto"
In Venda spoken in Zimbabwe and South Africa its "Zvithu"
True, chinhu when it's singular
I always hear typical baganda calling themselves baana ba kintu
@@michaelmaps2004 "Ntho" and "Dintho" in Sesotho
Ankole as well
Im a munyankore. My clan was a "mugahe" does this ring a bell for you Zimbabweans?😂😅😅
Kkkkkk sounds like like Mugabe clan
Check out 'Omugabe; see the connection? Is Omugabe title of your "clan" leader?
@@blessedmakusha7927
Long ago I noticed that 'Omugabe' was/is title from ethnic group in Uganda region.
Iam Abagusii from Western Kenya and i have seen a bigger %age of similar words to the languages ( Shona and Luganda ) to my language Ekegusii
Oh really, which words, and which part of kenya
@@kintuslounge253 thanx for the great word madam
I understood 95% of it and I speak Kiswahili
Very similar to the Kimbundu language of Angola
❤❤❤ Amazing! I can't believe it.
Both languages, specifically the luganda sound like my mother's dialects known as Kaninghi and Ki tsayi ( Sub-groups belonging to the Teke ethno-linguistic people in the Congo Bassin).
Indeed, in my mother's dialect, we say
1) mukasi : woman
2) gnama : meat
3) idza (kulia*): to eat
4) mwana: child
5) Ndzogho : elephant/ my father's dialect rather uses " "Nzoku" just as the Zulu unless I'm mistaken.
6) fumuna, (fukama*): to bend, to bow down
7) mva, i(mbua*): dog
8) ignua, (ku gnua*): to drink
9) fula : ask
10) tchisa ? : Are you okay ?
11) muti : a tree
12) mvubu: hippo
13) i yima : to sing
14) ikwa, ( kufua*): to die.
Note :
The variations into (..*) are mostly common in the kituba language of the Congos.
Thank you very much for the content. Stay blessed and keep it going.
Proud to be Bantu and israelite !
Am from Uganda, keep up the spirit maama 😘😘
Thanks for liking
Am shona, we are literally the same. We must have migrated from up there down here
Pls write the words on the screen
Therefore Shona people must stop claiming to be original inhabitants of Zimbabwe to Ndebele people otherwise they came from East Africa, and so Ndebeles came from South, so the thing is we are all Bantus,we should unite for good reason.
Both Shona and Ndebele come from East Africa. The San are the original inhabitants of modern-day Zimbabwe. Likely the Ndebeles and all those in SA would have passed by Zim of their way south
its only that Ndebeles came more than 800 years later after spending too much time south however please not shonas are not one monolith other tribes like the karanga,Ndau came much earlier others much later the only common theme amongst them is they all came at least 400 to to 800 years later than the Ndebele while at it the Tonga where the first Bantu to call Zimbabwe home longer than the Shona. However the key to the future is us all knowing the Bantu nation will be one again and God himself will select the King not before cleaning our blood.I know this is too much dont read into it otherwise you will go deeper than you want too.
Need to learn please, sentence and construction, l started to learn Swahili most are similar, like, on counting, 1 to 10, moja, motsi, mbili, piri, tatu, tatu, ine, ina, tanu, shanu, so interesting.
Mbuzi means virginity (alternative meaning) in Luganda
Africans should shun the colonialistic hangover and introduce various bantu languages in school curriculum
Thank you, l do agree for the survival of our languages.
It's wonderful! Let's trace it from Genesis 11 and discover that the holy Bible has everything which is happening on earth according to Isaiah 34 v 16.
Amen to that.
Thanks very much ❤❤❤❤
Had it not been for our greed leaders coupled with Western interference we should done away with these small little countries created by our former oppressors.We are truly one people . The similarities in our languages clearly illustrates that we share the same ancestors.
Some of African languages are similar South African Xhosa/Zulu umntwana a(child) mzukulwana/mzukulu (grand child)mbuzi (goat)kufa (die) like Shwahili words such as kuona to see (ukubona)kulala,wap(H)I we just put H btn p and I iphi (where)
On nzou and nhlovu are both used in zimbabwe
Thanks for letting us know.
Quick question, my sister. How do you spell the word child in Luganda? Thank you
Woow it's really amazing,we are one people one nation
I know.