Can African Countries Understand Each Other? (Egypt, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda)
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- Опубліковано 27 лют 2023
- Can African countries understand Each other's language?
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Nubia started well but said a few wrong things, people in Nigeria don't speak other languages because of poor access to education, it is true not everybody has access to education but a vast majority do. We Nigerians speak other languages because leaving in this one country are over 250 tribes with over 250 languages who are proud to speak their language. And pidgin english is us twisting the English language to what suits *ALL* of us best. Even the pidgin english has different slangs across the country. I hope this explains things better.
True
Naturally, we have some many tribes and languages, so with or without education you don't expect everyone or people from different tribes to understand themselves.....so that why, we speak English or piggin.
525 languages
The languages are over 500 but you're very right!
Exactly, the pidgin English we speak in my Benue here is different for sure from what they speak in warri and lagos and other parts of the country... and since not everybody in the north is hausa and want to speak hausa, pidgin English is more common in towns especially and I'm sure that's the case in other zones with mixed tribes
Nigeria: English is the official general language. The three languages he mentioned are actually the main languages that were picked to unify and ease communication within parts of the country, realistically there are over 300 languages in Nigeria, even the Hausa he mentioned for the north, there are different variations of it. pidgin probably was as a result of trade as he mentioned.
God bless you for this jare.
Plateau state has over 40 languages , Kano has over 7, most of the states have nothing less than 3 languages , the north and the middle belt seem to have a lot more languages than the rest west south and east
@@lighttalefilmz come to south south, you'll know that the next village doesn't speak nor understand my language. It's in multiple. Pidgen is what we used
@@emmanuelokon1172 i was in abia recently ,I got to know that there are Igbo speaking folks whose identity is more specific, that is the are a kind of Igbo , am told that the most universal Igbo to speak when you want to lean the tribe is the one from imo state but that most states do have distinctions
And yes you The right about the south , the middle belt the south south seem to have the most collection of small tribes if am not mistaken
@@lighttalefilmz I'm from Anambra but I be Lagos boy. oboy I travel go Nsukka, I hear Nsukka Igbo I was like wetin be this 😂
I'm Congolese and I'm happy to see someone representing us
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So real🇨🇩
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Yes 🇨🇩❤️
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I like how the Nigeria guy 🇳🇬 describes how he communicates in his country , especially talking about different languages in the country and tribes
That's how a country with different tribes communicate. Just like China and also my country Indonesia. Each tribe has their own local language, so we created a national language.
My immediate thought was that such languages had to come about as a result of trading, as well. Creating a common trade-language between nations when they first started trading with one another.
@@MattHunX languages that result from trading are called pidgins. To make it more complicated - Nigerian Pidgin is not a pidgin, it's a creole, as it is not used specifically for trading anymore, and it is the native language of many.
@@insansiregar6158 it's different for China. Instead of mixing a bunch of local languages together with a former colonizer language (like in the case of Nigerian Pidgin), the Chinese standardized ONE of the local languages - Mandarin Chinese (more specifically, the Beijing dialect). As other Sinitic languages are not recognized by the government, they are slowly dying out, being slowly replaced by Mandarin Chinese.
@@insansiregar6158 its the same for comgolese. Different tribes but lingala is what units us
The "too much" from the Nigerian is actually so interesting, we have something basically identical in New Zealand and I could understand it right away. When somebody does something super kind for you or unselfish etc you can go "Ahhh bro too much!" as like a thank you.
Same in Ireland. I get what the Egyptian woman was saying about it being "you're annoying", but I understood the phrase more naturally as a form of appreciation.
I feel like in the USA it can depend on the context. Sometimes I hear it said to someone who is cracking jokes and making everyone die laughing. Other times it’s a negative meaning a person is being extra outlandish in an annoying way.
Wow that's surprising
Too Mickey bras
Good to hear that ! 👍
I would like to see a Nigerian pidin, Jamaican patwa and Singlish version. I am certain this would be hilarious.
I'll love this too
Oh Lord! Communication would not happen.
Also Sierra Leone Krio
Don't forget our brothers in Ghana
Love this idea ❤😊
I'm congolese 🇨🇩. The ways he explained the slang "Nazo faze" is correct. It's a way for us to explain that we are tired and we couldn't do something like helping people or whatever
Yeah right! Congolese are just not representing us properly…. who in earth says nazo faze? There are so many words he could have showed them instead he showed them slangs 😂😂😂 tokoss😂 booo
He looks Muluba. He should've taught them some Tshiluba instead.
@@marlo512 Congolese we do say nazo faze, it is a slang that is very used. I will agree that he only used slangs but I don't see what his tribe and his choice has to do with that
@@Kolesha lingala is the most spoken and Congolese recognized language outside of the Congo. Why bring negativity in something positive like this.
@@Krisexcellence
How is what I said negative? It looks like you're projecting...
The egyptian girl is cute.
Simp
Her makeup is not
Pretty average.
@@benbewa Kill your abnormal beauty standards. Remember cameras tend to distort people's faces. Remember how normal human beings look. She is beautiful.
Well, Egypt has much better looking girls!
am a Ugandan lady. I like Egyptians so much I also understand their language well.
We love you too ❤️❤️
thanks sweetheart , love you ❤
You mean Arabic. It isn't an African language.
I'm from Egypt 🇪🇬and I laughed a lot lol, words mean very bad words in Egypt 😂😂
ماقالت شي ليه تقول كلام من جيبك؟
@@GDED222
مو هيا يا حماره ، اقصد الناس الي معها بيقولو كلام اذا واحد عربي سمع. بيفكرو سبه
What do they mean?
Finally !including countries like Congo and Rwanda not just the same African countries all the time
Well done
Full time naija 🇳🇬 boy from the Igbo tribe, we don't speak our languages 🇳🇬 or pidgin because we didn't go to school but because we love speaking our languages more though English is our many language
Finally someone put Congo on a video proud to be a Congolese 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩
na rwandais, bazo lukela biso makambu!
@@RDCFemmes vraiment ça c’est chercher les problèmes
@@RDCFemmes moi aussi j’ai été surprise 😮bon ba meki 🤷🏾♀️
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I’m ivorian and it made me so happy to see Congo represented!! I love your people 🇨🇩❤️🇨🇮
You should do a video comparing WAPE (Camer Pidgin 🇨🇲, Naija Pidgin 🇳🇬, Ghanaian Pidgin 🇬🇭, Liberian Koloqua 🇱🇷, and Salone Krio 🇸🇱) 😁. I know there are a lot of similarities but there are differences too.
I agree with u
That would be interesting.
Don't forget our brothers from Jamaica
yesss
The existence of different languages in Nigeria has nothing to do with access to education. It is due to the numerous ethnic (tribal) groups in the country. Access to education can only explain English proficiency or illiteracy. Take Ghana for instance, education is free and every child basically has access to basic education. There are still numerous languages in the country.
Wow! Menna, unexpected and awesome to see an Egyptian, Love from Egypt 🇪🇬
She doesn't look Egyptian ...
She shouldn't represent Egypt
It needed more an Egyptian looking
@@meralEdwtDawlatly You haven't visited Egypt before, looks like that, well We're in the north of Africa , in the North like (Alexandria and port Said and what so ever ) they have a light skin, the more u go south , people get darker, luxor and Aswan have a dark skin, but the middle of Egypt we have a very light dark skin, personally my Dad comes from El-Sharkiya, The east branch of the Nile cross it, the majority are so White especially women , bc men work in the field so the sun affect them but Dad doesn't work as farmer, he's a doctor, so he's still white as u define it . One more thing, I didn't see Racism growing up bc of the color as dark skin Egyptian girls have a beautiful features, we say "السمار نص الجمال" which means (Darkness is half of the beauty" for instance, if we see a girl with a light dark or dark skin we say"Oh, She got half of the beauty 😍 " Hope that was beneficial 🙂👍❤️
She’s Egyptian, get over it
She’s Egyptian, get over it
She’s Egyptian, get over it
An amazing afrikan mix!! i love how egypt was also included,
We're you from ?❤
@@moustfa8527 i’m half egyptian and half tunisian 🤗
I'm not a Nigerian but I know there are more than 3 local languages in Nigeria, but the dominant ones are Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa.
Over 500 languages, actually.
@@oladayoolanipekun3327 500 bawo. Èró ra Na
@@diranvr4465 You can google it. About 250 ethnic groups and 500 languages.
@@diranvr4465 🤣
@@diranvr4465 dey dere dey play 😂💔
i love rwanda and kinyarwanda how they pronounce it so sweet 🇷🇼
Nyarwanda is sweet? Lol...
@@tujiwara9216 sana
Fk
@@ommyw3063 lol... And then?
Kinyarwanda's some words are simillar to kiswahili , that's y it sounds beautifuly
I am from Egypt .. she is right, two words you said guys are so close to be insult in our language 😄
what they mean
You are connecting Africa guys i love it 🇨🇩
We really need more of these. Especially with northern and subsaharan parts of the continent.
I found this interesting! I feel that the African continent tends to get overlooked so it would be great to learn about their language, culture and how they live compared to the US and Europe.
Everything he said is wrong.
I just find it "weird" being eager to compare Africa/African countries and the western world, like we're just good by ourselves and it's enough.
We are arabs nothing to do with black ppl
Africa has languages not a language 🤦🏿♀️
@@adam_the_second okay 👍
I like this program. Very interesting as it bringing Africans together as I learned Mfesh haga in Egypt, mwaramutse in Rwanda and my favorite EZA TOKOSS from Congo
The Egyptian girl is too cute
Africa, as expected of a continent, is so diverse!!! Very fun video!
Another excellent video, thank you World Friends .
I’m Egyptian that lived in Nigeria as a toddler. My first words were in Hausa, but it’s all gone now 😢
in northern africa arabic is very common language, but the dialects make it almost impossible to understand each other, like morrocan arabic is much different from egyptian arabic.
"The country is hard enough, so we just make things easy" 😅
The Hakuna Matata is the Swahili language , in fact , the words that I know are from The Lion King , Simba means Lion 🦁
Lion it’s not nkosi in swahili
I have research you’are right simba in swahili means « lion » or « courageous Warrior »
@@atahglow Simba only means lion. It can be used as courageous warrior because you mean they're as courageous as a lion
@@Isabelle-zm8ee okay thanks ☺️
This is the first time I’m checking this page and it doesn’t have the words “America” or “American” in the video titles for at least a handful of videos. Well done for branching out and getting out of the click bait realm. 👏🏼
Congolese here🇨🇩 I wish Sam, the Congolese guy would have used actual expressions in proper Lingala (or any other National language for that matter) instead of only using slangs. Both nazo faze and eza tokos are slangs.
Also, in Congo we have a similar communication problem as Nigeria as we have hundreds of dialects. But unlike Nigeria we don’t have one single unifying language such as Pigin. We have 4 national languages (Lingala - mostly spoken in the west and northwest, Swahili- mostly spoken in the East, Kikongo- mostly spoken in the southwest, and Tshiluba- mostly spoken in the center) and French is the official language spoken in schools, offices, etc. Lingala and Swahili are the most spoken national languages in DRC, so if you meet a Congolese, they are very likely to speak one of these two even if they do speak other languages /dialects as well.
Lingala is also spoken in parts of Congo-Brazzaville 🇨🇬 and parts of Central African Republic. I’ve heard Cameroonians 🇨🇲 have a dialect that’s close to Lingala as well. Swahili is spoken in many countries in Eastern Africa such as Kenya, Tanzania and I believe part of Uganda too. But I’ve heard different countries have different variations of the language and the farther apart the regions, the harder communication will be although they’re all speaking Swahili.
Lingala was spread by being the regional trade language language that made it possible to communicate between tribes. It has some Bobangi and Kikongo in there. The Ngala language was also easier to digest for Europeans, so when they occupied our country in the late 1800s the language was spread all over and more and more french was introduced to it. The Congo is huge and divided by the forests so Lingala never took over. But same as Lingala there’s a bunch of local umbrella languages that bridge the hundreds of languages our tribes speak
This was very interesting to me as I've worked with several men who were from different countries in Africa. Nigerian's, Somalians, Ghana and the Congo. All were very kind and open individuals who loved sharing about their country and culture.
I really hope this group is going to have more and more videos.
Am proud to be an African 🥰🥰🥰🥰 Africa makes the world yummy and excellent 👌😋♥frm🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
I hate to be that guy but my OCD would not allow me, it's I'm proud to be an African
@@Ben360net 😆 🤣 😂
@@Ben360net lolzzz🤣🤣😆😆
Africa makes the world yummy🤣❤️
@@Ben360net 😂😂 we keep correcting this "I'm" and "am" problem in my country, we even use it to create memes and jokes now lmao
This was perfection ❤.
Moses my love from Rwanda 🇷🇼 🥰😍😍😍 your handsome love 🇷🇼❤️❤️✅❤️ keep making us proud 🥹 🇷🇼🇷🇼🇷🇼🇷🇼🇷🇼🇷🇼
Yesuuu Sha biragushimishije nkange 😂inyandiko yawe yuzuyemo ibyishimo pe
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Yes keep killing ppl in Congo too !!
Wow my brother from Rwanda 🇷🇼
I'm from Tanzania 🇹🇿 ,we speak Swahili as a national language,lingua franca and most of us is our first language,I like how they exchange languages and explain to each other 👏🏾
We also speak Swahili in Eastern Congo as a national language
@@Isabelle-zm8ee ohh!!I know Congo can speak Swahili but it's today that I know it's also your national language
@@doricemichelle3614
Kiswahili is not Congolese National language & we speak Swahili different to Tanzania
@@rehema2018 ohh okay
@@rehema2018 of it is 1 of Congolesenational languages 😊
Egyptian girl laughing beautiful and be careful when visit in Egypt LOL
Just don't say the word "Koss" as in Eza Tokoss when you visit Egypt🤣
Congolese and Nigerian have practically the same hand's gesture, body language, face expressions they are very similar..
This is a good mix of people from different regions.
This was cool! I’d love to see more of this
great video from these guys!
This was good. Thanks Nubia for representing us. I want more of this 🤩
As a Rwandan, I am always surprised by how Rwandans are so formal even when they want to be informal. Rwandan vibes are cool but not too exciting... I hate that but at the same time really like it as I find it to be a sign of power in our character and way of life. We don't stray even in our relaxed speech, we just slide meaning it's always CONTROLLED🤟🤟🤟
what's funny was that all I long I was looking out for the time the congolese guy would jump at him lol
Moses numuhanga
@@animenation5324 hahahaa
This is a normal African trait
@@momongamomo7825 Cyane kabisa
Well done guys, I love the idea 😍😍😍
I am Congolese 🇨🇩
I subscribed so as not to miss anything 👌🏾
Really enjoyed the video, nice one guys. 1 Africa 🌍
You should have made this group to include countries from all all corners of Africa (from North, South, East, West and central) to make it more interesting. Finally I did like to say we the young people of African need to force our governments to unite Africa, with a single currency, the ability to travel, live and work in any African country and for everyone to have their rights protected under the same law!! We need to achieve this in our life time!! Greetings from your African brother from the State of Eritrea!!
This group represents east Africa , west Africa , central Africa and North Africa .. maybe they should have added South Africa .. but they can’t put every county in Africa.. but I still get your point
@@alicenyatome8138 DRC is central African country and Rwanda is greater lake region! Not often classed as East African.
@@redseayouth9119 I believe now Rwanda is classified as East Africa .. in fact Rwandans carry an East African passport. And yes DRC is in central Africa .
They did!😂 Nigeria is west ; Egypt is north ; Congo is central ; Rwanda is east.
Ability to travel and work in any African Country, yes I agree but having a single currency? no i disagree
I’m congolese but i like how Nigerian he introduces to us and how he describes his communicates in his country with different languages
Come to Nigeria
@@sundayroast4785 lol why? Congo is more beautiful and fine🇨🇩😍 no need to go to nigeria
@@shalbec3232 lmao no need for such comparisons... it's all love.
@@shalbec3232praise your country without bringing other countries down okay? It’s that simple 👍🏾
@@sundayroast4785 oga you wicked 😂
The guy from Nigeria is so hoooooot 🔥🔥
All three guys are 🔥
Different types but all are beautiful
Congo*
Enjoyed every minute of this. I represent Nigeria. I also think you should do an episode where you compare Nigerian pidgin English and Jamaican patois. I have a feeling there are going to be major similarities
My brother you are right oo. The country is hard enough we don't need more stress. Shout-out to my Nigeria 🇳🇬
Yeaah. Us, Rwandans, have to be careful with our Language. Once we went to this church in Uganda and they asked us to sing a song in Kinyarwanda. So, we were singing this song and the congregation kept laughing. When we got to our seats, we asked why people were laughing and they told us it was because we were saying “Imana” apparently it means/sounds like “vagina” in their language but in our language it means “God”. 😂😂😂
Vagina is God. Since we are all birthed by it.
@@lolaispure4296 I respectfully disagree.
Hahahahah man that's happened to me!!!! Ohhh my God🤦🏾♂️
🫣😂😂😂
Which make sens in a way , if from a vigina comes life then sure it can also be called God 😊
I enjoyed this video! I love it. Pls do more videos like this ❤️🇳🇬
I love this! ❤️ very interesting!
Right but in Nigeria there are many languages not just Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo, they’re IJaw, Edo etc
You know he won’t be able to mention the whole 250, that’s why he just said the major 3
@@Tife_inspires doesn't take effort to clarify that. Like what you just did. He's given people the impression Nigeria has only 3 tribes which does our diversity a huge disservice
His correct, those are the three major language's in Nigeria..
@@joyebere951But he didn't specify. Could have said something like "many languages, but these are are the main".
@@Tife_inspires you mean 500
Omo...loving this nigerian guy🤣🤣Its deep...really explaining it well...true nigerian👍
Thanks for this education.
well am a rwandan, I fall in love with this guyz and what made me happy is how a this guyz are pronouncing words it's so interesting and even the meanings behind it as for Rwanda yeah me i don't leave in rwanda but when am using my mother language here people always laugh because they think that this language is similar to a Chinese language which is totally different it's just that our language is somehow difficult to understand
rwanda and chinese hahaha those pipo are funny
this show is super exciting
I am Congolese, our brother only gave them slang sentences ... 😀
I'm from Egypt...I'm proud man😂😂...this girl is so nice btw she is a good representer 🫠
She doesn't look Egyptian to be presenting Egypt
It needed someone else
She looks asian or Mediterranean ancestry
And she's nice
What does Tokoss mean?
@@meralEdwtDawlatly She looks very Egyptian. Egyptians are North African so they don’t look the same as sub Saharan Africans.
@@meralEdwtDawlatly She looks super Egyptian. Actually it looks like a girl from the ancient Egyptian sculptures and artworks
Mena is so pretty 🥺
Well that's makes me confused about my own language!!
Never heard of the words the girl said it's bad words in Egypt before 😭😂
😄i was desperately trying to find this comment
This was so interesting to me. You all seem really chill. African's are not well represented in the west, It's such a massive continent, we don't get to know the subtle differences in African cultures. UA-cam is much better for getting to know you than our own media.
Great videos …include South Africa .. love from Nigeria 🇳🇬
Good to see everyone together ❤
Egypt girl looking gorgeous
that girl is not egyptian
@@FewToast jealous much?
@@HT-xt4cn im not jealous im just saying that shes not egyptian
@@FewToast And you know this because?
@@FewToast
First of all, who are you to tell her if she's Egyptian or not? It's none of your business.
Greetings from Rwanda
That was super nice!
Love this !
Nigerian English is so specific 😁 But "too much" with this guy😂
I'm Kenyan 🇰🇪 and we speak Swahili similar to all East African countries
Swahili Arabs invented it to communicate with you. did you know that 😂😂
@@Azoz-bu7ck 😂😂💀
Interesting I like the many cultures sharing 1 continent
More videos from África pleassse
I'll use " you too much " from now
as an african from Zambia, this was so sweet an fun to watch😄
Wow, this is really nice 🔥
Interesting discussion and people.
The way Moses explains our language I amazing 👏 🇷🇼
And the name moses had me thinking that he ain't doing it right but he managed to do it well hhhh
@umwirabura Hahaha, he is the one genius Moses 🤣 , I actually know him from his channel, and seeing his face is what made me watch the video
@@choosesweet16 hhhh please share the link
@@choosesweet16 damn i also checked your stories
Damnnn i am in love
People should deff check u out
@@umwirabura7209 oh! Really? Thank you 🥰
Yoruba in Nigeria also has words that are spelt but pronounced differently with different means.
Ogún, ògùn, ogun, ógùn, ogùún, ògún, ógún, etc.
This is why as an East Afrikan learning West Afrikan languages is hard.
Akinyemi! This example is spot on!
This is a feature of most Niger-Congo languages. They're tonal.
You should have add the meanings of those words for better clarity, Just saying. You try sha
Wow thanks for the Nigerian guy I now understand history of pidgin I used to see Nigerians speak it in their movies thinking it for a specific tribe.
What a great video🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩
That guy said Nigeria is already hard enough. Man your right especially in this cashless policy 😂
Am proud of you mena
Aww my cutie ❤️
This is so nice.❤
nice info!
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I love nigerian language
We have over 200😁😁!
Haha over 250 brooo how
@@tobbsbrown50 over 500
Languages are beautiful.
Wonderful video! I like the fact that they included people from all over Africa to really show off the diversity of the countries and the continent in general.
Tower of babel must have been fun for the angels to watch. The laughter would have been great
🇨🇩 Nazo faze is a Word that A lot of Congolese people like to use and of course tokoss ☺️ our favourite word ❤
what it means?
@@jeswazwadi7049 tokoss= kitoko, but it can also mean “perfect”. So if something meets your expectation you can also say “tokoss”
What about na lembi .. ou ozo lembisa ngai? I feel like its very street language not realy lingala
@@Goubigoudi na lembi = I'm tired
Ozo lembisa ngai = you're making me tired
He could have used boni, kitoko …. “nazo faze” “tokoss” just shows his level of education… getting second embarrassment for us. He looks timid too … no social skills
iyi content ni nziza
Wooooo I love this show🥰
From the legendary Fela Kuti in one of his songs "gentleman" the lyrics goes "you chop small" in that song it makes perfect sense because of the context...with that reference I could have gotten it right. Much love
Proud African 🌍🇳🇬✊🏽
My mother is from Rwanda 🇷🇼 ❤, my father is from Senegal 🇸🇳 ❤️, but I was born in Congo😊❤️ I really enjoyed watching this video because it really shows aftica in all different ways 😍
Great idea, maybe you guys could try it with creole/patois ? :)
Great video; I learned so much!! Please do more. Can we please learn more about local dress and local dress?