Africa Insights: The Swahili Language
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- Well known local historian and author Abdul Sherriff anchors this short piece on the origins of Swahili language from a balcony in Stone Town Zanzibar.
This Insight, one of nine, was created for the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (africa.si.edu), part of the Connecting the Gems of the Indian Ocean initiative sponsored in part by the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center of Oman (www.sqcc.org/).
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Yes I support the Swahili 100%. I am from Ghana and speak a dialect known as Fanti but whenever I meet any of our Swahili sneaking family I hear some of fanti words because as the great Credo Mutwa said that the Bantus stretch from East Africa to West Africa. In all my travels people used tell me that I look more East African and I tell them because I am from the original. So yes Swahili. The great Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah even was able to started a school where Swahili was taught. Yes One Big Dialect for us all so we can communicate with brothers and sisters. Even at my age I don't think its too late. Better late than never and I am going to encourage my grandchildren my great grandchildren to learn and speak SWAHILI. Yeeeey at last unity is coming.
Karibuni tusome Kiswahili
If you want, let me teach you kiswahili.
I beg you kenyan to take swahili to another level since you are our east African super power..encourage the rest of your citizen to use it!thanks..I am tanzanian by the way,and I love this language!
Kitukuzwe. Hatuwezi wacha Kiswahili
you beg Kenyans LOL and your Tanzanian mwe
Wakenya tunakipenda Kiswahili, tutakikuza na kukisambaza duniani kote, iheshimiwe kutoka Kaskazini mwa Ulaya hadi Kusini Antarctica, kutoka Mashariki ya Japan hadi Magharibi kwa Marekani!
Hapa Nairobi ndo shida ipo... wanairobi wana mtindo wa kuiga lugha na mienendo za mabeberu...
I love kenyan,dear brothers in kenya be and continue being champion of swahili love from Tanzania
If there's a country apart from Kenya that I feel at home is Tanzania. Twawapenda ndugu zetu sisi ni wamoja.
Swahili has some arabic in it but not mainly. I even did a video with with some arab friends. Some words they could figure out and the majority not at all. The base of swahili is from african bantu languages
Extremely interesting issue & video. Hope to see more informative videos like this in the future. What a fascinating culture! Greetings from Italy.
Karibu tusome Kiswahili
Amazing video! Very informative
Kiswahili/Swahili is originally African language. Kiswahili/Swahili is a Bantu language which adapt some Arabic, Portugues, Indian, Germany and English words.
Arabic, Portugues and Indian words because of trade interaction
Germany and English words because of colonialism.
Kiswahili was written in Arabic before colonilism.
Kiswahili/Swahili started from Kilwa (Tanganyika/Tanzania)🇹🇿.
The history shows that Tanzania was most developed empire before colonialism and western influence,It was known as KILWA EMPIRE. it controls all the trade along Indian Ocean, East and Centre Africa (Somali, Kenya, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique) and their coin was powerful acceptable as medium of exchange. The empire records over 6 decades of existence without Western influence.
Histoy shows that Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara in Tanzania was one of the biggest trade hub port. Kilwa Kisiwani has iconic forts in Africa with rich colonial history and castles in Africa that prove slavery was not a choice.
Kilwa thrived as a great empire with huge monuments and buildings forming an estate-like community where no one lived in poverty.
Despite being in ruins, many buildings still stand today that give proof that Swahili culture started there.
In recent times, the are few of the ruins that remain in somewhat good shape despite being destroyed in the 14th and 16th century by the Portuguese after colonialism invasion.
In 1981, the Kilwa island was declared as UNESCO Heritage site for Kiswahili/Swahili curture.
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Mashaallah akhi ! 🙏🏽🇹🇿
Kiswahili is the language, Swahili is the culture.
There is more Kiswahili speakers than any other in Africa. Let's represent in out architecture, like in Ghana.
I'm trying from Mozambique.
Sao tome and principe need to learn this language
ENJOYED WATCHING.
Thank you for watching!
I my self has identifie more ward of Kikongo Language in to the Swahili becouse, Í m Angolan man baut belong to kongo tribe
It is true, if you can speak lingala. Here are some similarities.
Mwana=mwana/mtoto(child), koswana=kosana(quarrel), wapi=wapi(where), nani=nani(who), nini=nini(what),nyama=nyama(meat),langi=rangi(color),mutu=mtu(person),katikati=katikati(middle),kawa=kahawa(coffee), tia=tia(put), pasuka=pasuka(to burst), kauka=kauka(to dry),lelo=leo(today), kufa=kufa(to die),monene=munene(fat,thick),nyoka=nyoka(snake),nusa=nusa(to smell), ananasi=nanasi(pineapple),sukali=sukari(sugar),lopete=pete(ring), chai=chai(tea),mokongo=mgongo(back),koyiba=kuiba(to steal),nzala=njaa(hunger),payipayi=papai,mingi=mingi(mengi)(many),kopangusa=kupangusa(to rub),mbwa=mbwa(dog), tangawisi=tangawizi(ginger) mai=maji(water), koya=kuja(to come),kosilika=kasirika(to get angry),kopo=kopo(some kind of bootle, glass, plastic bottle),lino=jino(tooth),nkingo=shingo(neck), masua=mashua(local boat), motema=(mtima/moyo)(heart), moto=moto(fire), mitano=(tano, pl mitano),
ndoto=ndoto(dream), pilipili=pilipili(pepper, chilli), kimya=kimya(quietness,calm)
Madagascar needs to learn Swahili!
Welcome
Swahili being the biggest and fastest growing African lingua franca is like 95% original African coastal language and only 5% foreign influence. People of other cultures i:e Arabs and the rest, who had interaction with the coastal parts and had a little bit of their language assimilate into Swahili like to over estimate their importance and influence of their culture into Swahili.
U forgot to mention Rwanda
They do speak Swahili too
the rwandese swahili is so nyce,i enjoyd conversing in swahili mixed with kifaransa
Swahili started in Kilwa KENYAN'S GOT IT AFTER Kilwa was inveded by the Portuguese
No, it started with the wangozi people in coastal Kenya before Arab and European influence.
It's the other way around, Swahili influenced Arabic, as East Afrikans originally settled pre-islamic Arabia long before.
Swahili is Bantu language or African tribes but it take few words from Arabic almost 25% words during colonial rule,many words of Swahili is African tribes called Bantu
No mimi swahili na wewe not swahili swahili its a mixed arab bantu before european colonies Zanzibar tanzania east congo north Kivu Kivu Rwanda burundi comoros island was Sultanat Omani Kingdom of Oman 🇴🇲 arab country since many century the cultur of swahili its a arab cultur and religion and word from Arabic almost more than 25%
@@wewewowo960 most of swahili culture are arabic, their dress, turban, dagger, wooden door, fort style, palace style are from omani and yemeni infleuces, comoros is the only last cousin of zanzibar, if no coup in 1964 in zanizbar, today zanizbar are just like others arab state like comoros, oman, yemen and uae. with swahili(mixed bantu and arabic) as 2nd langauge or co-offical just like in comoros.
What language did Africans speak BEFORE the fall of Kemet/ Egypt?
It's the most linguistically diverse continent, so there's plenty
@@Jeff_artsN With all these languages how does any communicate without misunderstanding?
@@4abrownafrica939 in Kenya for example, there's 43 major tribes with their own languages plus some sub tribes.
But we also have national languages, which are taught in schools and used almost always.
In Kenya, that's Swahili and English. Most people we meet are at least fluent in one of those.
So even though it's not many people's first language, it's what people end up using majority of the time.
As a result, few in the modern generation born in the city like myself, can barely speak the native language.
@Mwaniki Mwaniki What makes you think they didnt? What makes more sense, two thousand languages like today or one?
@Mwaniki Mwaniki Abaluyha
Kiswahili kipo kabla ya kufika arab afika mashark. Walipo tawalia warabu ndio waliingiza maneni ya kiarabu ..kwamfano namba 1.2.3.4 mpaka5 ni za kibantu 6.... zilitolewa na kupachikwa za kiarabu ...ilia kuweza kutawal Kwa wepes
Hili ni ongeo letu tusiwape warabu ambao walituharibia hstor yetu
Neno mingi imetoka arabia
Unajua kiarabu bro
Kiswahili ni mixture ya kibantu na kiarabu
mubarak olad naah, labda 20%, lakini Kiswahili ni zaidi ya 70% kibantu , kwa hiyo hii ni lugha yetu tujivuinie wabantu. Maneno mengie ya kiarabu/kiingereza n.k, yana maana yake kwa kibantu. Mfano kiarabu, shukrani ni asante, tisa ni kenda binti ni msichana. Kiingereza mfano tochi ni kurunzi na mengine mengi
mubarak olad na si kweli ni kiarabu tu. Kiswahili pia kimekopa maneno toka kwa kiingereza(baiskeli,shati,benki nk), kireno(meza,mvinyo,turufu nk), kijerumani(shule, hela)
@@davidlemeri4189 ukisema hivyo unakosea na kireno je
Umoja Ni Nguvu
Tanzania we use Mlima from native language, it means mountain not jabali
The best swahili is from Kenya
Even here in Kenya, we say mlima
Swahili people were there before coming of Arabs and they spoke what is termed as Swahili by Arabs..
It was known as kingozi.
@@joykamiza2593 thank you so much for this answer one year later I hope that you’re still alive and in good health. I’ve desperately been looking for someone to describe what was the original name of the Bantu language that was mixed with foreign languages to birth kiswahili. If you have more information please I would really love and appreciate to hear from you 🙏🏾
Why you start to say Kenya instead of Tanzania who speak properly than Kenya. And Kenya Swahili is not their national language but Tanzania only
Habiba Mwangu Tanzania nyinyi sio wasomi
Kwahiyo nyie ndo wasomi huko Kenya. Tushawazoea mnaviganda vitu vyetu mnasema vyenu kama mlima Kilimanjaro. Olduvai gorge Serengeti tanzanite mlisema vyenu. sasa kiswahili wakati mnaongea kiswahil kibovu balaa. Njoo nikufundishe kiswahili nina degree la hilo somo
Hata nikiangalia video zenu mnavyofundisha kiswahili hatumii tenses au nyakati. Mnajua nyie kuhusu wakati uliopo ujao uliopita timilifu. Naona tu mnajua umoja na wingi basi. Tanzania wasomi kibao labda hiyo sababu ya kujua kujieleeza kwa kiswahili kuliko kiingereza ndo maana mnasema sio wasomi
Habiba Mwangu wajua nyinyi tz mna ubishi sana na yote hiyo haina maana,kama unavyo jua Kenya na Tanzania ni nchi mbili tofauti,na Kenya tuna mikoa 47 kama unavyo jua kiswahili ni lugha ya taifa ya kenya, kiswahili inashikanisha mikoa zote za Kenya.
Tena Tanzania Ni Kati za Nchi inayotoa elimu bora Africa syllabus yetu ipo vizuri
Most of the Swahili words are originally from Arabic. Prove ? Just read the old dictionaries with roots words. It’s just recently that more Bantu words were introduced .
Yes because of its old relations with oman mostly
@@khuloodkk9649 not really. It’s all the Arab settlers in east Africa . Swahili didn’t originate from Zanzibar only (???).
@@MS-zb6gr yea but oman really had a great effect
Kiswahili,,,,,not Swahili,,,,Swahili is the kiswahili speaking people
Stop use Arabic words to understand swahili,swahili is Bantu (many tribes of Africa) but borrowed 25% words of Arab during colonial rule,but totally swahili is African language,originated by African tribes called Bantu
I’d like to know if it was one main tribe that was mixed with Arab or many different languages? How has it become a single language if taken from different languages? Did they codify it ? And so we have names of those Bantu tribes ?
There was never a language called "Swahili" until the British colonial era. Instead the people of the coast all spoke closely related Bantu dialects that were standardised into one language by the British.
Even ethnically, these people did not identify as Swahili but by their tribe/clan etc. as is typical of Africans. In fact some people classified as Swahili today reject the term, preferring their native name.
It's like the term Latino. Colombians and Cubans etc. have totally distinct history and culture. Yet in the context of the wider world, they are both reduced to a single 'Latino' identity. They all speak Spanish but different variations. Or same way Americans and British both speak English. In fact, most Bantus from all over Eastern and Southern Africa can understand most Swahili, because the languages across the region are so similar.
That is not to say that the people of the coast did not have a unifying culture, because they were all Bantu people shaped by interaction with the Indian Ocean world. Another major unifying aspect was Islamic religion. Also, many of them were mixed race or even Asian or African immigrants who had assimilated into the coastal culture and readily accepted the term Swahili, because it gave them a solid sense of identity, and as part of the local culture as a opposed to foreigners such as Arabs
Arabic is an African language too! Do you want to say Arabic influences Amharic , Shona ,Hausa and many other African languages ?
Jamoni Jamo they did not say, but the infulence of arabic in the swahili langauge something you can not deny
Ibrahim alkoum They are both African language , the original Arabs were African and Swahili existed even before the white Arabs came in. I only have a problem because people want to deny Africa her achievement , we gave the world a lot but no one gives us credit .
@@jamoni2410 which credit do you expect when you seem to admit that arabic is an african language? do yo know how swahili was called prior to arabislamic invasion?
@@jesusisjerryallahistom Arabic in it pureness is an African language, that is a known fact, and your questions don't make any sense!
@@jamoni2410 known by who? arabic has nothing to do with african languages, we was kangs and shits.
Hahahahhaah, kiswahili nikibantu. Swahili is bantu, but just 25% of it is arabic. Ther rest is bantu
Poa! :)
..stop using abalic words in swahili.. our language is perfect
Rock is Jabal In arabc..
In swahili is Mlima
Bongo Tz Arabic is an African language too.
Mlima means hill
Bongo Tz are you mzuguwa kkkkkk you dont know anything about swahili language
@Mwafrika Mkenya wacha matusi on youtube tafadhali
Mwafrika Mkenya you don't speak better Swahili than Tanzanians. Be real!
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Kenya mpe mkurupuka na Kiswahili juzi too Nyie ni kimombo na kimombo na Nyie Léo mnajiita waswahili sabb y'a njaa. Mna njaa ndio mnazungumza Kiswahili ila Léo Kiswahili kikiwa hakina fursa hamtakitaka hâta kukisikia. Asilimia 80 y'a wazanzibari wanongea Kiswahili too na hawajui lugha yengine yoyote si english sio kiarabu Léo Nyie mna ongea english na lugha zenu za kikabila ukiacha Kiswahili. Nimeskia watu wa Mombasa too ndio wanaogea Kiswahili cha kiridhisha na kueleweka kwa ufasaha sio Nyie wanairobi, ukiondosha Mombasa Nyie wengine nyote mtadodosa Léo mnajiita waswahili sabb y'a njaa sabb kinafursa. Tembeeni mtu kumtukute waswahili tukiongea kama hamtotafuta mkalimani awasaidie kufasiri misamiati y'a kiswahili ambayo mmeipa mamlaka kuwa ni lugha yenu.
Kuna wakenya na watanzania sio lazima ni zungumze kiswahili kama watanzania. Wacha kasumba za magufuli. Njaa. Njaa. Kama humutulishi funga mdomo
bro, una pressure mob sana. zipunguze kwanza na ukipatie kipao mbele kiswahili tujitawale tena bila kusikika wala kueleweka na wakoloni.
Si lazima tuzungumze kama nyinyi ndio tuseme twajua kiswahili
As long as there is Arabic in it, its a waste of time to learn it, the whole Africa will be Muslims , i hate the culture of fighting for no reason . I may like to learn the 100% Swahili not the Arabic mixed .
Basi mazungumzo yako yatakuwa untelligible. Arabic is a beautiful language speaking it does not make you Muslim, kila aizungumzae lugha ana dini lake I am Kenyan swahili is my language and I am not Muslim.
Learn the Kongo Swahili then.
@Mwaniki Mwaniki very little, also there are aspects of German, Hindi and Portuguese..
Very few Arabic words, try listening to pokomo and other mijikenda languages , you will see how close Swahili is to these languages unlike Arabic..I know because I am from one of the mijikenda tribes. Kiswahili was originally known as Kingozi.
@Mwaniki Mwaniki I speak the language..and it's just like kiswahili.
Nonsense!! Just go and work and stop stealing your own money..
Israel ? ??????? 🤔 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏾♂️ swahili its Arab and bantu cryol language not hebrew or israeli 🤔 its first time listen this cheat
As an American black Africans do their continent a grave injustice by not showing the EXQUISITENESS of their land. This doesn’t make me want to speak Swahili. Theirs nothing motivating, festive or colorful about this video or others like it. It’s the typical African impoverished, remote, underdeveloped imagery. Even in some cases with an Islamic tint to it, which can also be disheartening to a person that has a drawback to Islam.
Swahili is a combination of Arabic, Portuguese and Bantu. Nice language as it my be. It was created during slavery.
Big NO. You don't have any clue about Africa. Whatever you spew is nothing but propaganda fed to you by whites. The original religion of all blacks in the US is Islam and Christianity was used to enslave you people. Learn your history well. Learn about king Mansa Musa of the great Mali kingdom who was the richest man of all time was a Muslim king from west Africa whose kingdom of Islamic and him was a Muslim.
SELF HATRED
The amount of ignorance in black Americans about Africa is shocking!! I understand why most of you feel lost
A lost brother, smh.
Never talk about africa you ignorant fool