About the Swahili language

[@MG-wx8yx]

I'm a native Swahili speaker from Tanzania and I can say it's so fascinating to hear a non-native Swahili speaker speaking and mostly teaching Swahili. Swahili is the official language of Tanzania.

[@tomatosoup6440]

You can't be a native Kiswahili speaker and fail to see the obvious lies said in this video about the language.

[@Theflexstudiotz]

Natamani ningekuwa najua kuongea hicho kiswahili kwama huyu mzungu lakini daah

[@azmass]

​@@Theflexstudiotznakuona unajua mbona

[@stevensilungwe41]

Swahili ni tamu sana 🇿🇲🇹🇿. Learn this beautiful language and feel like a real African.

[@Cowboys1998]

Tanzania need to learn Swahili from Kenyans

[@gabrielaghan]

corretion: Kiswahili ni kitamu sana.

[@ChrisCollins-oj2fx]

@@Cowboys1998😂😂😂😂ah please thats embarrassing

[@Jayas.]

@@gabrielaghanI bet you’re from tz that grammar is top tier ❤

[@Jayas.]

@@Cowboys1998how could we learn from you while you can speak what is written in your books…i have a Swahili textbook from kenya its the same with ours but non of the words you speak are from those book eg ..”njoo hapa” mnasema “kuja hapa” wakati on your own books it’s written the other way around

[@gadiola]

Any Kenyan here

[@kenyantech9728]

Niko

[@John-qr4kf]

Tuko

[@chriswamahiu8751]

Tuko hapa kama kawaida.. Tushatoka maandamano leo sasa twapumzika😅

[@hassangingi7033]

Tuko wengi

[@Abraham_k_Birech]

Tuko hapa

[@larsbitsch-larsen6988]

My formative years 5-12 was in Congo (DRC). Swahili was then a language "invading" the local language Otetela. I was told that even though Swahili is well understood in most of east Africa the loan word came from the colonial languages. So Swahili in English territories took English words like computer and the French territories took ordinatuer etc. Swahili being a wide spread language lends to better communication. But when this means that Otetela gradually will disappear I feel sorrow. Otetela is a tonal language and as such lends it self to be transcribed" into musical drums. The Otetela have large wedge shaped drums 1 meter long and 80 cm high acustically shaped to transmit sound in a specific direction. When I lived in Congo the sound of jungle drums was a regular thing morning and evening. Of later, they are still used ceremoniously and young boys can be seen walking along the village main street morning and evening announcing the daily news for at small tip. So with the spread of Swahili and radio and internet the old tradition of (Tarzan's) jungle drums will disappear. I couldn't find a picture of the drum on the internet, but my sister has one so I will send a picture some time in the future.

[@EstaJeanette-nk7fj]

I don't think the tetela in sankuru DRC speak kiswahili. As a congolese. There are still millions of them who still speak it. Their language is still very much around.

[@Francisqolito]

Swahili is an evil Arabic language also eating away my native Gĩkũyũ language!

[@hsanmp]

​@@EstaJeanette-nk7fj Le Swahili a été introduit au Congo par les esclavagistes arabes donc c'est une langue d'esclavage; il est composé de près de 40% de mots arabes, sans compter les mots anglais et Portugais. Bref Pour nous Congolais qui aimons la souveraineté le Lingala doit rester notre langue-mère.

[@MzeewaUjiji]

Worry about your own country. We do not need your sorrow or involvement in our languages. You have done enough damage by imposing European your languages on our continent

[@johndoe-er3qi]

@@hsanmp 40% is a gross over exergeration.Swahili is still very much bantu witth a few loan words. Thats why an arabic speaker cant understand swahili and vice versa

[@Sadju7]

I wondered when the next JuLingo video was going to drop! Thanks Julie!

[@Pining_for_the_fjords]

The way Swahili handles verb tenses with a single infix; -na for the present, -li for the past, -ta for the future and -me for the present perfect, is a lot simpler than any other language I know of.

[@DavidGBlair]

Chinese basically ignores the tenses altogether. You have to infer the time from the context. Thank goodness Chinese grammar is simple, everything else about the language is very difficult for an English speaker to learn.

[@adameyes]

​@@DavidGBlairCan you speak Chinese?

[@DavidGBlair]

@@adameyes moderately well

[@adameyes]

@@DavidGBlair 那真棒哦，我刚刚开始学，希望我能向学很多。

[@DavidGBlair]

@@adameyes I live in a small city in Yunnan province. I'm surrounded by Chinese (or Yunnanhua) but still struggle with the language.

[@najibullahghafori3739]

helllo julie, love your content from Afghanistan, please make the next video about Pashto, it's very ancient arianic (iranic) language, it's our official language here in Afghanistan and is believed to have evolved from avestan and bactrian, tell us it's history and everything, it would be very interesting since there are not much information about it online please please love you PS: Pashtun female Kochi (nomadic) dress would look amazing on you for the thumbnail

[@Roswk14wambui]

Swahili has word from your language too. Kalamu...pencil etc

[@Ingomayimyibutsa257]

Thank you for this one. Hakuna matata kabisa. Greetings from a burundian who speaks swahili.

[@PierreJohnsonOnline]

Thanks for your video. Informative and motivated as usual. Having worked and visited the Comoros archipelago, with 4 islands and a geopolitical divide since 1976, I know firsthand that the Comoros languages (shi-maoré, shi-mweli, shi-ngazija and shi-zuani) are apparently Swahili dialects. Counting them in the Swahili language family would expand it geographically at least (in numbers of locutors only in a bit more than 1 million people, not counting the diaspora). But the origin of those Comoros languages may not be as simple, so they could be a great research for you!

[@Amukalalu]

Uganda we are just starting to adopt Swahili in schools, at the moment most of the population use English or local language

[@etherean369]

Swahili fiction and poetry is also very beautiful especially when the writers decide to go crazy with it 😂 But if you don't know the language that well you may get stuck with a kamusi(dictionary) and most of the style, sarcasm nd references will fly over your head anyway. Stories like "Kusadikika", "Lila na Fila" (a poetic retelling of a Swahili ogre/trickster story) and "Siku Njema" will leave you asking for more.

[@mwangiphalis2636]

Utengano, Kilio cha Haki

[@Futureartist255]

I think you should try book by Shaban Robert

[@Neidzwiedz1]

In the late 70's when I was 4-5 we lived in Tanzania (Dar es Salaam) for 2 years. My younger brother and I both picked up some Swedish from our neighbors and Swahili from everywhere else. Even after returning to the States we were able to keep up with it because when my parents didn't want us to know what they were talking about they spoke Swahili, which was like a language class in its self. After a while that strategy didn't work any more.

[@John-qr4kf]

😂😂😂😂 Kenyan here. That was so strategic of your parents.

[@PaulsenMgema]

This is amazing 👏🏼 🤩 🙌🏾

[@fredybenedicto7726]

😂 hii imeenda

[@daudimwenyewe7372]

😂😂😂 I see what you did there no more Siri at the house

[@shyfettymtunda4619]

🤣🤣🤣

[@amplifymysound]

Love the sound and simplicity of Swahili, just wish it was more useful around me

[@azmass]

Kama unakipenda jifunze tu ipo siku kitasaidia

[@AfricanLanguageLessons]

Swahili is a beautiful language and indeed very similar to other African languages especially in South, Central and East Africa. I teach these similarities alongside my mother tongue luhya-bukusu from western Kenya on mychannel. The correlation between the local languages is mind blowing: different yet similar. Thank you for bringing this to light 👏🏾👏🏾

[@williswameyo5737]

It is a fascinating language, Iam from Kenya🇰🇪🇰🇪, I am quite fluent in Swahili, It is the National language in Kenya

[@jfd12gubs45x]

Yes. It is mainly spoken by watchmen & barmaids. Policemen, beggars, thieves, hawkers, housemaids, matatu touts, charcoal sellers, shoe shine boys, conmen also use the language

[@nambaga]

​@@jfd12gubs45xThis mentality must be from Uganda

[@jfd12gubs45x]

@@nambaga NO. I GOT IT FROM YOUR NYUKWA

[@nambaga]

@@jfd12gubs45x I knew 🤷🤷

[@jameskaimenyi6287]

​@@jfd12gubs45x What a shameless Ugandan!

[@khalidjuma5530]

I am very impressed to hear this from you Julie, I am a native Swahili speaker from Tanzania. Welcome to learn this wonderful Bantu Language.

[@billgussy6099]

also widely spoken in Comoros and Oman

[@limofootball]

The dialect in Comoros is called Chikomori.

[@houzaifmdziani6983]

@@limofootballyeah true I’m Comoros island

[@renemanegu8554]

Jambo ndugu

[@kellysmith4095]

I am always surprised that some word from Comoros sound kiswahili, example,in chikomori," today is a happy day",if you say it in chikomori that is kiswahili,

[@houzaifmdziani6983]

@@kellysmith4095 leo wusiku wa furaha : i come from comoros island

[@mauriziocampobasso1982]

Thank you Julie

[@yipmabaruya1148]

Good morning from Papua New Guinea. I enjoyed watching your contents

[@tierraeterea]

Please do Mandinka! I learned it living in Senegal for a few years. I'd love to help share this beautiful language, its also got rather simple grammar and melodic vowel-heavy language. A baraka, thank you!

[@brucebennett5338]

such a beautiful language!

[@jfd12gubs45x]

Unfortunately it is taken to be a measure of illiteracy in Kenya 😂😂😂

[@Afro-sport94]

​@@jfd12gubs45x Colonization mentality.😊

[@TheRealUsername]

​​@@jfd12gubs45x Really? So the Kenyans prefer a foreign language (English) over their own language rooted within their culture?

[@jfd12gubs45x]

@@TheRealUsername Even Swahili is foreign!! It was the language of the slave trade It is also the language of the satanic religion called Islam.

[@bowizthejoblessgwiji3128]

​@@jfd12gubs45xonly by Kenyans with inferiority complex and colonized mentality. Swahili, along with English and Maths were compulsory subjects in both primary and high school.

[@RCSVirginia]

Pleasant is a great way to describe Swahili: It is very pleasing to the ear. One can only hope that it will continue to be a major language in East Africa.

[@craigime]

I hope it continues to spread

[@00mr.m41]

With all due respect that news reporter is speaking a mainland dialect. It’s not considered native. The coastal speakers are the real natives. Nairobi and Tanzania speak it different to the coastal in Mombasa, Zanzibar & Pemba

[@lugo_9969]

Excellent work Julie. ❤ will you next do Old Irish ....please 🎉

[@kiddyadams]

safi sanaa, hongera kwa uchambuzi mzurii. kiswahili kitaamu saana kukiongea,kukisoma na kuandika pia

[@aidhengilbertmusic]

Bro taught me things 😂 I didn't know about my own language 🥲😭😭😭

[@tomatosoup6440]

Do you have an idea how dangerous that is, having a foreigner from Europe "teach" you about your own language in Africa?

[@RainbowHeartSpirit]

​@@tomatosoup6440languages are fascinating. And she clearly has a passion for them. There are many native speakers that don't understand the make up and structure who are learning. Just like you don't have to know how an engine works to drive efficiently and effectively, a person can speak with out knowing why things are the way they are or where they come from. Get a grip and stop making it about her ethnicity. I speak 2 dialects and 3 languages but you wouldn't know or assume from my skin colour. So quit making your senseless comments that do nothing to enrich the conversation and only devalue your own experience.

[@tomatosoup6440]

@@RainbowHeartSpirit Oh just shut up. I didn't even finish that paragraph.

[@stephenrioux6821]

I'm glad I found your channel. Educational and very cool!

[@cinemanuggets24]

this is a great presentation

[@Lucy-ns2ei]

I don't know why i'm learning my nation language, but am here anyway😂

[@tomatosoup6440]

And you're learning it from a European, on KZbin. Go think hard about it.

[@MichaelMutai]

Vile amesema Hakuna Matata.....is that correct? Kwa sababu sidhani kuna umoja au uwingi ya matata.....

[@Lucy-ns2ei]

@@MichaelMutai nafikiria alikuwa anaelezea wingi (ma) lakini Kwa Jina Matata you can't separate the word

[@fabulouschild2005]

"A world without Lion King and Jenga is not worth living in" - JuLi, 2024

[@enamishalive]

i think the word safari that came to english from swahili originally came from arabic /safar/ سَفَرْ originally, meaning to travel as well

[@bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715]

Safar is Arabic ..the equivalent bantu word would be "rugendo".....this word runs from east congo to Rwanda to kenya to the south northern Zambia ....."genda..".enda....is the root word meaning go....

[@TheOtherMwalimu]

​@@bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715sahihi

[@thisoneistheuglyone]

@@bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715 Umenikumbusha kwa kihehe wanauliza 'Magendo?' Je, wewe mtaalamu wa lugha?

[@tomatosoup6440]

Exactly, see Swahili has more in common with Arabic than that other thing she keep calling "Bantu." Arabic is the single biggest vocabulary contributor to Swahili.

[@tomatosoup6440]

@@bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715 So why do ya'll like to claim Swahili is a "Bantu language" when Arabic is actually the single largest vocabulary contributor to Swahili, and Arabic isn't even indigenous to Africa?

[@Nimitramartin.]

Nashukuru sana kwa kukienzi lugha tukufu la kiswahili. Asante sana.

[@azmass]

Hahaha lugha tukufu nimeipenda hiyo

[@jeanclauderukundo6351]

I am a congolese from DRC. Swahili is one of our four national languages, mainly spoken in the East part.

[@hopeemmanuel]

Fun fact: people claim Swahili is spoken in Uganda but none of us does 😂 maybe just people who want to join the army learn it

[@LK-ho1dg]

😂

[@MutebiDickson-j2b]

Am from masaka-ug but i can write and speak Swahili

[@hopeemmanuel]

@@MutebiDickson-j2b one of a kind.

[@kofiarthur3749]

​@@LK-ho1dg Dont mind that fool! Like the Ytuber said most Africans prefer to speak the Oppresor European language and this fool is a perfect Example of that. I wish oneday all Africans speak Swahili but removing that Arabic in it. Cheers from Ghana 🇬🇭

[@wabyonaroggers8941]

Swahili is examinable by UNEB,used in the armed forces,on the currency notes etc.

[@musaabedi4449]

Proud Kiswahili speaker 🥰🥰🥰😍😍❤️❤️❤️

[@Julieann1437]

Thank you 👍❤

[@thenewgardener-2610]

All native the African languages including ancient Egyptian have this unique feature : The adjectives AND the numerals come after the noun they qualify or quantify.

[@stephentaylor2119]

The other theory and most likely is the Bantu originated from the Great Lakes Region. It was postulated that Proto Bantu had nit only a class prefix, but a pre-prefix. This was confirmed when Lumsaba was studied, where the full prefix has been preserved, It is found as an initial vowel in the interlacustrine languages, such as Luhya in Kenya and the Nguin Languages of Southern Africa. I have seen the noun classes in Fang of Cameroon and it shows more deviation from Lumsaba, than all the other I am familiar with and the Fang area is said to be the original homeland. This would explain why class prefixes are different in many cases from the Pronominal Concords.

[@lutaayam]

Tanzanian Swahili sounds better, softer, more fluid than Kenyan Swahili which sounds a bit labored

[@Ranaso]

As a Kenyan I agree 💯🔥🇰🇪

[@SantaFe19484]

Hakuna Matata everybody!

[@samiiraabdiwahaab1802]

I wish to understand more than saying that swahili spoke to Mogadishu are wrong Mogadishu have their words even age stone and never spoke swahili earlier century and ages stone. Read Mogadishu history and have many names not only Mogadishu but holy country Somalia 😊😊

[@Bearhawk58]

When I was a young boy I read a Tarzan book. The apes had a language and the author without out saying it used Swahili. I assumed he made up his own language like Tolkien. He even had an extensive Ape language dictionary in the back of the book. For some reason. I retained a large portion of the vocabulary and ten years later I heard the language being used on a train in Washington State. Needless to say I was quite amazed.

[@afrakanaswahilitv5520]

This is basically a racist comment. What was the title of the Tarzan book you read and how about the author and publisher? How is it connected to kiswahili/Swahili?

[@oremooremo5075]

​@@afrakanaswahilitv5520We mzee how is it racist? Have you never seen Tarzan or read the story? In the story of Tarzan is about a boy who is raised by apes. He is saying the author gave the apes their own language which turns out was Swahili

[@DylanMatthewTurner]

This is weird, and maybe it's just me but all the speakers you played sound like they're American English speakers speaking an African language. Something about the phonotactics I guess

[@thedante7722]

They're actually not. As a Kenyan who knows the difference between some Kenyan urbanites who speak American English and also Kiswahili, and people from the Kenyan Coast who speak it proper, the speakers she played sounded like coastal speakers, or mainland Tanzanian speakers, who have not been influenced by English or any other non-bantu language.

[@DylanMatthewTurner]

@@thedante7722 I wasn't trying to imply that they were. It simply sounded to my ears like when American English speakers speak another language. Like the consonants and vowels used tickled my brain in a weird way lol

[@tomatosoup6440]

They really are American -- the accent is obvious. No one born and raised in Africa speaks like that.

[@Heavy-metaaal]

I propose our brothers from Africa and Asia to defend your local languages instead of european ones. It's not easy, but if I could I would try to learn and spread around to country. We can speak european ones, but defend local ones. I would like to speak an indigenous language called Tupi Guarani local from Brazil.

[@Lanziga]

Rwandans don't speak swahili as their official language they speak kinyarwanda however you forgot to mention that Congolese speak more swahili than rwandans ! I am Congolese and i am glad to see some one talking about the language i use in my daily life though❤

[@bruce.....]

Once you know Swahili, you know the basics of around 60% of the other East African languages

[@Artyom178]

Beautiful, smart and modest Julie. Love ypu ♥♥♥

[@SionTJobbins]

From an European point of view, to get a handle on Swahili can I ask one question. Is Bantu like 'Indo-european' with many branches like Germanic, Celtic, Romance, etc, or is it a 'Latin' with other languages like Zulu, Bemba, Shona, Lingala etc like French, Spanish, Italian etc to Bantu? (does that make sense?!). That is, how different is, say Bemba from Lingala, Shona, Zulu and Swahili?

[@Destinavigator]

❤️ YOOOO! Nice video!!! I’m a Small Struggling Travel Channel and you really inspire me to make better content 😌 Thank you! 🙏🏻

[@vincentkosgei7166]

It is language spoken by conmen, bartenders , smokers, local brewers, grave excavators, bus touts, policemen, thieves, terrorist, labourers, come we stay marriages etc😂😂

[@BgHuds]

she said sweet to hear then proceeds to talk about an accident 😂😂 nice content tho

[@isaacnguyen6944]

For me it is Lingala in ouest africa the linga franca. Thanks to you I discover that Matata was also swahili. A Matete (a corner of Brazzaville) pas de Matata dans les Matiti (grass) .

[@ibrahimsylla1456]

DRC it’s not even part of West Africa . How lingala can be the linga Franca in West Africa stop spreading misinformation.

[@isaacnguyen6944]

@@ibrahimsylla1456 I was there, the other language was Munukutuba. My mistake is Congo is considered equatorial Africa but is the west of teh continent. They were lucky enough not to met any Ibrahim!

[@kidmohair8151]

it sounds like kiSwahili might be quite easy to learn, in practice. but it seems complex.

[@limofootball]

It's easy but only when you try

[@C_In_Outlaw3817]

Julie what new language have you been trying to study these days?

[@josephautrement6411]

Swahili isn’t spoken as an official language in Rwanda! Swahili language is one of the 4 official languages in DR Congo. 🇨🇩 It is spoken in the whole Eastern Drc such as Sud-Kivu, Nord-Kivu, Katanga, Ituri, Kisangani and Maniema. All these states in Congo-Kinshasa speak “Swahili”.

[@guernica5413]

Yoruba, Ewe, Fon, Mandinga and Uolof are also amazing languages that would create entertaining videos

[@agnettakamugisha4984]

You must be from Nigeria or Ghana. What about Igbo?😳

[@parapara3974]

​@@agnettakamugisha4984 I'm Igbo and I don't mind if he's requesting Yoruba. Why would that even be an issue?

[@frankrault3190]

While listening to it I understood nothing. Yet, as for its sounds, it reminds me a bit of Italian, a language that I'm learning presently. Thanks a lot for sharing this interesting video, hakuna matata!

[@Heavy-metaaal]

Italian? I speak Portuguese. Are you sure it sounds like Italian?

[@frankrault3190]

@@Heavy-metaaal I never said that. It reminds me a bit of Italian.

[@sologj]

@@Heavy-metaaal We have Portuguese words in Swahili too. Meza is table, Mvinyo is wine

[@chriswamahiu8751]

@@sologj even veranda

[@martintuma9974]

Do Duala next...

[@Roswk14wambui]

Swahili is a half Arab, some portuguese words, some few lndian words and majority Miijikenda language. And that is the East African coast historical colonial past. Mijikenda (Bantus) are the inhabitants of the East African coast... They're all 9 Tribes. Miijikenda means . The nine community tribes.

[@DarkDennis1961]

a very pleasant sounding language 😊

[@basilsimon676]

Very nice l love my language kiswahili🎉

[@williswameyo5737]

Swahili has lots of words of Arabic origin, making a bit easier to understand Arabic

[@afrakanaswahilitv5520]

Arabic words are less than 1% and mainly the vocabulary part that are rarely used. If you speak Spanish you will see that it has a lot of Arabic vocabulary than swahili. Iam fluent in both Spanish and Swahili. Swahili sentence structure is 100% bantu and basically is a compilation of 22 viswahili bantu languages. The total loan words (less than 8%) are from English, Persian, Arabic, Portuguese, Chinese, Hindi, Germany and a few others. Note that every language has been impacted and also impacted other global languages. The commonly used nouns classes are 12 pairs referred to as "Ngeli za kiswahili."

[@ashrafismail9270]

Stop lying! Kiswahili is made up of more than 35% Arabic. I speak both Arabic and kiswahili and it has uncountable Arabic words. And there are even entire swahili sentences that are derived from Arabic such as sabahal kheri and sabahal nur. Some words in the swahili from Arabic are: aibu, kheri, bahati, hakika, karibu, samahani, salaman, abadan, safari, tabasamu; just to mention few

[@the_gamer_kinda]

As a native speaker,This is a lie

[@John-qr4kf]

​​@@ashrafismail9270Bila shaka is swahili,a full Arabic sentence,na kadhalika.

[@tomatosoup6440]

@@afrakanaswahilitv5520 You are saying Swahili is "100% Bantu" as if Bantu is a language. There is no language called "Bantu" anywhere in Africa. Arabic is a real language, Bantu is NOT. Kindly note the difference. We know all Arabic words used in Swahili, but there is no "Bantu" word in Swahili. Maybe Swahili has a few Zulu words, Kikuyu words, or Nyamwezi words, or Chagga words, but it does NOT have "Bantu" words. You cant take words and sentence structure from something that is not a language. So stop arguing that Swahili has the words or sentence structure of Bantu.

[@cultist256]

I am Ugandan. We have a lot of local words we borrowed or that were borrowed by Swahili and viceversa. Anyone can understand the basics as Ugandans especially bantu speaking people. Also the northern people too who trade extensively with Kenya and Congo❤

[@tomatosoup6440]

I used to thing this "Bantu" brainwash was just a Kenyan thing; I was wrong. I'm just stunned to learn that many Ugandans too consider themselves "Bantu people." Now this BS has crept into the heads of Tanzanians and South Africans as well --- It just seems unstoppable. I'm sorry to break this to you but there is no such thing as "Bantu people" anywhere in Africa. Bantu is NOT a real language group; is NOT a language; and is certainly NOT a people or ethnicity in Africa. The Bantu concept wasn't even invented by an African, to begin with.

[@cultist256]

@@tomatosoup6440 Where are you from first of all, with due respect? "Bantu" is an ethnicity of people almost having the same words or when of one tribe speaks, another understands like I am a Musoga but a muganda or Munyankole and anyone from the bantu community in Uganda will get. So will a person who knows Swahili. This is also true for the Nilotic people in northern Uganda and Kenya. Masai and Karamajongs understand each other because of same group...

[@tomatosoup6440]

@@cultist256 Let me answer your question and break down your argument while poking a few holes in it: 📌 I am *Kenyan* and comes from a tribe that's part of this imaginary "Bantu languages" group. 📌 You referred to Bantus as an "ethnicity" and you're WRONG. An ethnicity is a group of people with common culture and descent. The so-called "Bantus" have no common culture. The cultures of the Zulu (South Africa) and Basoga (Uganda) have very little in common. If you say Bantu is an ethnicity, you're implying that you belong to two ethnic groups that are same -- *Basoga* and *Bantu*. But we all know you can't belong to two ethnicities that are same. Furthermore, just because you heard familiar words in Lunyankole and Luganda doesn't mean you're one of them -- they're ethnicities by their own right and both of you are certainly NOT Bantu because Bantu is NOT a language/culture/ ethnicity. 📌 Let's not even talk about *Swahili* because it borrows more words from *Arabic* than any other language. It's certainly NOT a Bantu language and you're WRONG to think you can understand it just because you're Bantu yourself. Swahili is a difficult language to learn for any African. Ugandans don't even speak or understand it yet y'all claim you're mostly Bantus.

[@cultist256]

@@tomatosoup6440 why are you negative? Read about Ugandan tribes, you will be surprised to know that once was a Bunyoro Kitala dynasty where we the people from West, central and east were then it collapsed into kingdoms. A one king of Bunyoro on his trip to the east, he left his sons there who started up the Basoga people

[@cultist256]

@@tomatosoup6440 Be positive. Stop that Kenyan negativity. ☮️

[@Heavy-metaaal]

I liked to listen to Swahili. ❤ Cat language is very important to learn. There are many cats around the world.

[@tonygivenchy1571]

8:19 In swahili those noun classes are referred to as ngeli

[@techarch8851]

Excellent research. Think Swahili should be the African communication language. Instead of having English french Portuguese where 2 African people cant communicate because of colonial languages.

[@CitrianSnailBY]

Cool!! After Russian, I will either study Swahili, or Bahasa.

[@KS-iw7qv]

Visit Tanzania especially Zanzibar for real fluent Swahili Language....

[@JohnMinehan-lx9ts]

Somali . . . but I visited East Africa with the US Army . . . .

[@infoscholar5221]

I know a little Zarma, some Taureg, and a bit of Arabic (RP), but I'm from Alabama, and you have to know that stuff here, to get out the Democratic vote. Also, women need to have the same rights as men.

[@kaladze93]

The coolest african language, I hope to stydy it some day

[@Pingthescribe]

Your videos always make my day better! Hope we can see more languages soon!

[@gabrielaghan]

Thank you for your extensive research on Kiswahili. You left out to mention some little influence from the Portuguese language onto our beautiful language. Words like Meza, Pesa, Leso, kopo gereza, karata, pipa, mvinyo, tarumbeta, zambarau, foronya etc

[@tomatosoup6440]

She is not Swahili speaker herself to know all those details. It's obvious she just Googled most of the things she's saying in this video, a portion of which is false.

[@behzadparsa]

👍

[@doctor2m]

😍👍

[@ronaldl9085]

Asante

[@chaselee86]

Where did you find the head-ware and costume of every country? Or is it AI generated image?

[@SagangaKapaya]

You don't know the origin of the bantu people. Stop the lies.

[@bekkitaoudie7961]

Good work ❤❤

[@williswameyo5737]

The suffixes of verbs in Swahili shows inflections or verb conjugations like for example: somesha, the suffix -sha changes the verb to mean read to someone

[@Slime-s5p]

You forget also burundi is 13millions and half of DRC Congo more than 50millions speak Swahili there

[@Heavy-metaaal]

You are calm. Very good videos. Greetings from Brazil. I have just started to follow your channel. 👏👏👏

[@macdonaldchaboka6117]

as a Tanzanian who has learned Russian and natively speaking swahili,i can confirm that swahili is a really hard language to grasp that our neighbouring country (kenya) butchers the hell out of it

[@hanesmitter1469]

Jambo kwa wazungumzaji wote mahiri wa kiswahili

[@FreePalestine254]

Kiswahili is the native language of the Swahili people. The Swahili are descendants of the first intermarriages between Arab fathers(Hadhramis and Omanis) and African Bantu mothers, including tribes such as the Bajunis and Mijikendas. Sometimes, Swahili people refer to themselves as Arabs, which is also accurate since children take their father's surname. This cultural practice is why Swahili culture mirrors Arab culture, and they adopt clan names such as Al-Nabhan and Al-Hashimi. Over time, the Swahili have intermarried with inland African communities to such an extent that contemporary Swahili people are often indistinguishable from other Africans. Kiswahili has multifaceted origins, forming a linguistic tapestry woven from Arabic influence, Bantu roots, Portuguese encounter, and Indian connections. Our forefathers, residing on the islands of Unguja, Pemba, Mombasa(Mvita), Lamu (Amu), Mafia, and along the Eastern African coast held a rich cultural legacy. Most were proficient in reciting the Quran, reading, and writing in Arabic. Before the arrival of Roman alphabets, they even wrote Kiswahili using Arabic script. As colonizers ventured inland to Uganda, they encountered rulers who communicated in writing using either Arabic or Kiswahili with Arabic alphabets. The Arabic alphabet coincides perfectly in pronunciation with the eloquence of Kiswahili. When Kiswahili vocabulary is transcribed using Roman (Latin) alphabets, certain nuances can be lost. Kiswahili has distinct sounds that don’t always align perfectly with the Roman letters. As a result, some words may be mispronounced.

[@alidaiz9578]

😂😂😂 Rwanda u u r wrong Burundi they speeking swahili much better then UGANDA , AND RWANDA

[@stephentaylor2119]

Also, all animates take agreements for classes 1 and 2, probably due to Islamic folk tales where animals are treated like people eg Brer Rabbit and Beatrix Potter-type Characters. Louis Leaky sums up classes 3 and 4 in life that contain lesser spirits than classes 1 and 2, also humans with magical or spitit=ual, probably originally different noun classes, merged. Mtume prophet (sent one) Mitume is it plural. Mungu God, Miungu Gods, I find Bantu languages fascinating.

[@Skelovane]

Great video! Definitely subscribing!

[@muhmuhsini005]

As a native Swahili from Lamu, I can barely agree with all the facts you mentioned about my language, Swahili. There are a lot of misconceptions and colonial narratives about our Swahili culture. Not mentioning Lamu or Zanzibar in your presentation says a lot about the weak foundation of your information. Anyway, thanks for highlighting my beautiful language, which is a significant part of my Swahili culture. Amani (Peace) ✌🏼

[@chcomes]

Funny enough, Safari comes from the arabic root. sfr. About hakuna, it is more exact to put it that "kuna" is "there is" or "there are". The verb "to be" is "kuwa" and it is used more in a conceptual and descriptive sense, while (i)ko-mo-po is used as "to be" in a location sense and "kuna" as general existence.

[@kenyantech9728]

Karibu Afrika mashariki

[@davidmbugua874]

Am kenyan , Uganda don't speak Swahili. But the rest of info is correct

[@trevorsawe8396]

UPDF do speak

[@Khalid-mf3iu]

Hi Kenyan.....how can I say RUTO MUST GO in swahili

[@madara5458]

I've spoken kiswahili for pretty much all my life, and honestly, this sort of "foreign" insight on the language is quite fascinating. Ive always thought giving various words genders was unnecessarily comolicating it. Turns out we've been doing it for years💀 We calk them viwakilishi(loosely translates to symbol representatives) so I've always known it to be unique to the language. I'm not a linguist though, so my logic was quite flawed, but still, its very interesting.

[@holothuroid9111]

The reason that loanwords end up in the one class without a prefix, is rather obvious I think. There are some random hits like ki-tabu (book) from Arabic qitab, which luckily sounds like it features the noun class prefix for small items (ki-), so it goes into ki- class with a reanalized stem -tabu. But most borrowed words will not start with something that is a proper class prefix. So zero class it is. Theoretically speakers might instead supply a fitting noun class prefix for loan words each. This would be more work though, so is less likely to occur.

[@kevinmbogo2567]

Wonderfully accurate video. I am a native Swahili speaker. I also speak various other languages. Nothing comes close to Swahili in melody, versatility and sweetness.

[@bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715]

10:37 is true to most if not all bantu languages...

[@judithmugisa3248]

Swahili is national language in congo 🇨🇩 (drc) too

[@b.3940]

I am Kenyan and the few Ugandans I’ve met who speak “some” Kiswahili have been police officers or military personnel. I don’t think Kiswahili is widespread in Uganda.

[@tazafrosoul]

Unyama mwanetu DuLingo... Agiza Mbandandu nakuja kulipa kwa pusha 😎😎