The 2nd Arabic sentence should be spelled as follows: "وصل محمد و حسن إلي المدرسة" I apologize for the error in the video. Happy to feature the Swahili language for the first time. Even though the core of the Swahili vocabulary comes from the native Bantu language family, it contains many words derived from Arabic, aside from the terms which are related to religion. Follow and contact us on Instagram if you are interested in participating in a future video: instagram.com/BahadorAlast
@@kristinamikail6447 I see.. can you write something in arabic here, BUT IN LATIN SCRIPT SO THAT I CAN READ IT.. if so then kindly Write this - *"Physics and Maths are two seperate elements of the same branch, i.e Science"*
They are all brilliant…no one comes to the show like this without being knowledgeable 🙄…moreover, why do we always like to compare? Rather than focusing on the content?
I am Indian Muslim with Yemeni and Persian roots. And married into Swahili family of Oman. I am familiar with Urdu/Hindi, Arabic and Swahili. My own language is a mixture of Arabic, Kannada, Malayalam and English.
@@HAmmar0121 racial pride isn't something you should promote and encourage instead encourage loving humans and judging them by their values and ideals like Deen
@@zaharabanoo6338 Everyone should be proud of their race, nation, culture.... Allah created us in different races, families and cultures and we should be proud of that which Allah has given us and at the same time we should love and explore our differences and similarities, we must realise we are all from Adam (a.s) and no one is better than the other. "O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you." (QUR'AN 49:13) What is bad about me saying I have omani heritage but I consider myself to be a swahili person? I am just talking about my background. Brotherhood between muslims is the most brotherhood but Islam did not say not to be proud of your culture and race, just don't think you are better than others. Imam Ali (a.s) said, "People are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity."
The conversation changed when they were asking about where Swahili is spoken so Mr. Naqib did not get to finish so I just will add that Swahili is primarily spoken in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, but also you will find many Swahili speakers in Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Comoros Islands, Madagascar, and outside of Africa in Oman, there is a significant number of people who have roots from the Swahili coast, the coastal area of the Indian Ocean in East Africa inhabited by the Swahili people, who speak and understand Swahili.
I think the confusion about Somalis speaking Swahili is the millions in North Eastern region of Kenya who speak Swahili. It's correct Somalia is not a Swahili speaking country
@@cosmo_mosy no only somali people who live in kenya can speak sawhili we don't have any minority who speak sawihili language in somalia somali people have their langauge at least 2 milion people in kenya speaks somali language my be those are who can speak sawhili becouse they live in kenya i don't know why they guy included somalia as sawihli speaking nation
I love this...I'm from Nairobi, Kenya and here our Swahili isn't as 'clean' as our brother's and sister's from the coastal part of Kenya. They speak 'Swahili Sanifu' while in Nairobi our Swahili has a lot of influence from our other different tribal languages (we have over 40 tribes in Kenya and each tribe with its language) I knew Swahili has a lot of Arabic influence and this is interesting to watch. We also share a lot of similar words with the Turkish language which I find to be a very beautiful language.
Not that much like you intend to potray.Most Arabic words in Swahili amply mostly to things which were not native to Swahili or other bantu languages.most Arabic words in Swahili end with I the same applys to words created for modern things like computer_tarakilishi to imply its not native Swahili word.
Arabic language has influenced wherever it went with Islam even in India our languages have enormous influence of Arabic. BTW love to both groups they are muslimsm. love from India..
@@simsim6419 those were Islamic Allah Khayrul-Makereen the greatest deciver conquerers. Its not the fault of middle easterners. Cult member does not associate themselves with anyone else
Thank you for doing this. I've been reading a lot about Swahili recently. It's very interesting to see it has many Arabic words even though it is neither a Semitic or Afroasiatic language.
It's the same as Spanish, in the sense that it has some loanwords from Arabic (I think spanish has around 3000 loanwords from Arabic.). That said, the loanwords are only lexical, so they cover things like certain numbers, and physical items etc. There is no influence from Arabic in terms of its grammar, as the language is actually a variant from the Sabaki dialects spoken in Coastal Kenya/Tanzania. This is why people who speak other languages from the same language phylum (bantu languages) don't have a hard time learning the basics of kiSwahili, because they're pretty much the same. For example, the word (prefix) "ki" in other bantu languages are called "chi/isi/otji/oshi" and so forth, so the language of the Bemba people in Zambia for example, is called chiBemba. The language of the Kongo people (who are found in Congo DRC, Congo ROC, Angola etc) is called KiKingo, so the prefix there is the same as in KiSwahili.
I am Spanish. There are up to 20% spanish words that come from arabic, but most of them are no longer used, because they belong to things related to the old rural life, handicraft, specific words for outdated tools, etc.
Certain languages are influenced by others but are not family. E.g. Swahili, Spanish, Turkish, English. English is not Romance or Celtic like I always thought.
I learned Swahili in eastern Congo and then became a Swahili instructor in the USA for a while. In 208 I planned a 3 week trip to Morocco so I pulled out my old formal dictionary (Ashton, if I recall correctly) and then found 100-200 Swahili words with Arabic roots. It was so so so much fun to freak shopkeepers out with zeitun (olives) or tum (garlic) and on and on. A bit too in Turkey in 2019.
@@luganomwaisumo1938 no its not the coastal areas of east african are home of swahili....watanzania wengine hawajui kiswahili mwajisifu na hamna kitu hapo
All the arabic words used by Saudi brothers are also used in formal urdu except the names of eating stuff.. And as a Pakistani i am also aware of all these arabic words🥰
I knew Swahili had some Arabic words but brooo this is so cool, there are so many similarities! I started to think that even my language (Kazakh) has less Arabic loanwords and I feel jealous
As a Kiswahili speaker, it's way more similar to Bantu languages there's few words like 200-300 that are similar because of trade and slave trade and Islam but its mainly a Bantu language
Wow,this video made me remember my days as a student in kenya,I am orginally from india,My father had a job in kenya and we shifted there.I remember learning swahili for 5 years there,my first swahili teacher,Daisy tr I still miss her.
Nice combination it’s really interesting and they are so talkative definitely learned more about our swahili language and heritage 💗 greetings from Watamu (kenya)
I learned my salamu alekum, shukran, marhabaetc when I first vacationed in Dubai in the late 90s, I just felt it`s respectful to greet people in their language when they are already nice enough to welcome you. Over the years, I have kept the practice, and in any place I visit, I try to learn the basic words. Recently in Egypt(April) a shop owner was surprised when he whispered bismillah( when I bought something from him) and I understood, he did not expect me to understand a word Arabic being im a black woman. thanks for amking such an interesting topic, really enjoyable.
Amazing! The Swahili language is part of the Bantu language family (the group of languages spoken in much of central and southern Africa) but has had considerable Arabic influences. Today, Swahili is the African language most widely recognized outside the continent. Spoken in twelve countries, Swahili is the gateway to the rich culture and dynamic economy of East Africa.
Correction it's spoken in Southern East Africa and central Africa. It originated from the Bantus at coast of Kenya and they borrowed Arabic,Portuguese and Persian words, just like English has borrowed words from other languages. If you hear the coastal Bantus speak their native language, it's Swahili.
Next video Arabs should compare their Arab vs our Taarabu music and dance. Even music Instruments and especially our Bantu's Chakacha. That will be explosive!!!
@@eluemina2366 They will know soon that the Bantu are the ancient Holy people, the sons of Abram, Isaka, and Akobi,! And all languages come from AKA Africa even Hebrew which comes from Bantu and Aramaic!!
Hi there, watched a few of your clips, really enjoyed them, just wanted to say I love what you've got going here. Especially these days, it feels like more people around the world need to be reminded of the fact that we, as humans, have so much in common and our differences are negligible. Thanks and دمتون گرم.
Thank you bahador you deserve more views ❤ I know Arabic because I was born in the UAE, and when I traveled to East Africa to Zanzibar, I realized how close the swahili to Arabic. Number of swahili and words is similar to arabic Due to the rule of Oman in East Africa
Hata kabla ya utawala wa waomani kiswahili kilikua na maneno ya kiarabu hii ni kutokan a na muingiliano wa kitamaduni na uhusiano mwena na maeneo ya nje na waswahili pia jografia ya mwambao wa afrikamashariki na ishtighali mbalimbali zilojumuisha watu toka asili tafauti zilichangia
@@mohamedvuaa1579 nam maka haq qan hnak alktheer min altbadil altgary been afriqa walbldan alarbiah khasitn swhil afriqia alshrqiah w alarab methil alyemen wa oman I wrote this in arabic but instead useing arabic letter i used english I don’t know if you understand it In arabic will be like this نعم معك حق كان هناك الكثير من التبادل التجاري بين افريقيا والبلدان العربيه خاصةً سواحل افريقيا والعرب مثل اليمن وعمان جنوب شبة الجزيره العربية
There are around 33 dialects of the Swahili language which are spoken from North of the Somali coast down to the Mozambique coast. Currently, Kenya speaks the Zanzibar dialect ,Kiunguja, as the national language. We have kimvita,kiamu,kisiu,kimtangata,etc.
Great video. It'd be good to include some African Arabic dialects like Egyptian and Sudanese as well as Omani which is the source of Arabic words in Swahili.
The ancient ancestors of the motherland did not call themselves Africans and they did not name the land Africa in ancient time! Just like the ancient ancestors of KMT, did not call themselves Egyptians and they did not call the land Egypt in ancient time! No such thing as African Arabic dialect! The ancient ancestors started language with symbols in BC time. Language and writing originated in the motherland in BC time . Ancient time facts!
Swahili, Turkish, Arabic, Persian and Urdu are all very different languages but they are share influences with one another through millenia of history and immigration!
When I was doing my bachelor’s degree in Linguistics years ago, we had a fields methods class where we had to analyze an unfamiliar language. Our informant was a Lingala speaker from Uganda. Lingala is closely related to Swahili. I remember asking him the numbers and they were basically identical to the names of numbers in Arabic. So, salaasa is three and nisaa is nine. When I asked him how to say 3:00, the informant replied saa tisaa, which should mean 9:00 and when I asked him how to say 9:00, he replied saa salaasa, which should be 3:00. When I asked him how this could be, he informed us that they read the clock differently than other people do.
I think Lingala is spoken in Zaire/congo more than in Uganda,I`m not even sure Ugandans speak Lingala I love the language although I do not understand a word. Lingala has the best beats of music in Africa.
Well done Bahador, would be interesting to watch a video highlighting the similarities between Swahili and other Bantu dialects in Southern Africa as well. Thank You
Very interesting, thank you. I study Arabic and want to learn Swahili, too. I understood a lot in both languages, Saudi seems close to fosha. It encourages me that Swahili would not be too difficult to learn or at least to understand. I must admit, Arabic takes quite an effort and time, especially the grammar and the script, and the pronunciation, too. SALAMAT!
What level? Currently trying to become conversational in the language (which is difficult). Did you know a similar language prior to learn Arabic? I speak Spanish and English and although I can make some minor connections, the writing and some sounds are completely different!
@@ClassicGal Nice, go for it. 👏🌹 I studied arabic for many years and can have conversations with Arabic speaking people (but not about difficult topics). It makes me happy that I can understand entire phrases meanwhile, in the first years only some words. My level might be now approx. B1. But if I dont practice I forget a lot. My next goal now is to learn to understand and write short comments in Arabic on TH-cam, the translation option is helpful for learning. I love languages and I am a professional translator for Italian/German and can speak also English, French and Spanish. But besides some words in Spanish, Arabic was a whole new world for me.
Hey Bahador, my man! As always, a great video! I’m a language geek myself and love all of your videos! My suggestion for the next video would be - try to find native speakers of these languages: Vietnamese (northern and southern), Northern Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese and Shanghainese Wu and try to let them focus on the words that are loanwords from Middle Chinese language, if each of them could formulate a sentence that others could potentially understand (it is quite possible, just like many European languages use Greek and Latin loanwords)
Amongst them.. My favourite is *"Hebrew"* It's older than Arabic and Aramaic and it was the only language to come back from the status of "Dead language" to "Living Language"..
@@astesiaa That's wrong Aramaic is older than Hebrew and Hebrew is not preserved Sematic language it is like speaking English with a very thick Chinese accent
@@nabatean180 incorrect, Hebrew is older than Aramaic.. Old Aramaic was first attested in 800BCE.. whereas Hebrew was first attested in 1000BCE.. so Hebrew is older than Aramaic.. And second, Hebrew is the only language that got revived by Israeli people in the 19th century CE.. and it is now on "Duolingo", "Blabber" and "Mango languages" as one of the learning languages..
Am a Swahili speaker from Kenya.I am learning Arabic online.Surprisingly, learning Arabic has really improved my Swahili vocabulary.I have noticed in the course of learning standard Arabic,that the less used Swahili vocabulary is actually used in day to day Arabic.This means that Swahili must have had more Arabic vocabulary in the past than it does today.
For the trousers, I see the Arabs and French have a similar word Le pantalon and Bantalon. In East Africa we adopt an English word Longi from Long or long pants. But pants is the more accurate description of a clothing which worn around the waist and has orifices for both legs which in Swahili would be Suruali (both long and short) and Sirwal in Arabic.
Kiswahili is the most beautiful language. In Kenya, we used to learn a lot of Kiswalili as a compulsory examinable subject in primary school and secondary school. Particularly I like Kiswahili poems, Kiswahili proverbs, Kiswahili vocabularies, and Kiswahili phrases. Unfortunately, after high school in Kenya, most Kenyans abandon Kiswahili and start speaking English for business and formal conversations while Sheng (Swahili-English slang) replace Kiswahili proper in ordinary informal conversations.
There are about 16 million people throughout the world who speak a dialect of Swahili as a native language. As a second language, it has about 82 million speakers. The language is considered to be the lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of eastern and southeastern Africa. It’s been adopted by speakers of many different languages in Africa as a more universal means of communication, typically for commerce and trade.
Bantu is a group of "Bantu language" speaking peoples that include Swahili speakers. The Congo is majorly Bantu-speaking and so are Tanzania, Kenya, southern Africa, central Africa, east Africa etc.
Great conversation. I would like to add my little knowledge to the already well explained language. I think that most of swahili words that start with letter s are actually arabic. Saba =sab³a Sita = sitta Samaki =samak Sufuri = sufur Salama=salama Saa = saa³ah Sauti =saut Etc
Wow. Bahador. As an Arabic speaker, I found this fascinating. Thank you . Another excellent example about how commerce and migration enriches culture 🥰🥰🥰
Swahili has so much Arabic words it depends in which area you come from, some times in a sentence you can count 90% words if you can recognize by knowing Fus'ha, as well as local Arabic of other sects the like of Yemeni, Omani and Khaliji. but also the higher you go uplands the less Arabic it comes. The most semetic and much Arabic words in Swahili you will find in Kiamu special from Amu old Town.
Swahili is spoken in East and South Congo , Rwanda, Burundi part of Somalia small number in Comoros but widely spoken by Kenya Tanzania and Uganda over 100million people
Love the video! I might be making this up but "Nzuri" kind of sounds like "Nzur or Nazoor" which means "visiting or we're visiting" in Arabic. So maybe "beautiful" in Swahili as in when someone visits you, it's kind of a good/beautiful thing. I don't know I might be wrong on that one
Swahili started from the Bantus of the Coast of Kenya, the Miji Kenda people, hence Sahl. If you hear them speak their native language, it's Swahili, they are the WaSwahili (the Swahili) people. Amazing beautiful people, they're warm (very friendly), patient, kind and loving. Also our National anthem's tune was gotten from them.
The Swahili people are among the bantu who migrated from the Congo forest through Shungwaya in East Africa and later migrated to the coast. By then they were known as the Ngozi. When the Arabs came to the coast, they responded to them that:Sisi ni watu was Siwa hili. That is,we are the people of this large island. So Siwa hili turned into Swahili. The Miji kenda only learnt Swahili during the long distance trade. The 9 groups making up the Miji Kenda have their own dialects. You can do a little research on them.
@@elizabethwanyonyi609 first, the name Swahili is derived from the Arabic word "Sawahil," meaning "coasts". 2. Why I wouldn't agree with you is because the whitewashed historical lies are so irregular, no one knows which to believe, they all contradict themselves. Stay woke.
Omanis emigrated to East Africa more than thousand years ago through trading between them. They mingled with locals through marriages and through trading. The swahili language was born when the Arabs and the locals were exchanging their stuff through difficulties to communicate and understand each other. The grandchildren and great grandchildren of the intermarriages are still in East Africa and others have returned to Oman. That is why you will see so many Omanis are swahili speakers Please note that there are more than 3000 words in swahili which were taken from arabic language.
@@markomiljkovic1137 No. All Arabic dialects are similar to each others. There are minor differences. It may seem different for non-native Arabic speakers. But in the Overall picture, all Arabic dialects from Morocco to Oman are very similar.
Am a Kenyan from south coast of Mombasa-Kwale watching from EMIRATES.,Stayed UAE 9yrs & absolutely yes Arab words resembles Kiswahili eg YAANI in Arabic & Yani in kiswahili
My grandfather lived in Tanzania for 30 years. Half of my uncles speaks Swahili. It's a beautiful language and i wish i learned it. I speak Arabic and I knew of the Arabic origin to so many Swahili words. I guess that would make it easier to learn it.
There should be one comparing Hausa, Yoruba and Swahili as well. They all seem to share something with Arabic based on earlier Islamic influences. بارك الله فيكم
Hey guys. Thank you for this video, it's awesome and the first of its kind on the internet, well done. However, my opinion doesn't matter but I have to say this; you guys are sleeping on the similarities between Swahili and Farsi, or Comorian (Comoros dialect) and Farsi since the Sassanid dynasty settled Kilwa and minted the first coins of East Africa in the 13th century. If you can, please compare the Shirazi Farsi dialect with the Swahili dialect of Comoros or Zanzibar, if possible, where decendents of Persians still live today and are known as Shirazis
One the reasons for the presence of Arabic words in Ki Swahili, is unlike the WaAfrika. many of the Waswahili have Arab ancestry. Like any who ventures to a foreign land, they spoke Arabic and gradually added non Arabic words to their vocabulary. 🍎
Correct. Especially Kikuyu, kamba, Meru, Tutsi and many others tribes in East Africa , including Tanzania Carry more than 2-20% West Asia ancestry. Coastal Kenya down to TZ we have so many black people who originated from ancient Persia. They intermarried and assimilated
@@michaelcody3960 Check our DNA results on TH-cam. But pay attention to admixtures. Infact an avarage Kikuyu has alot of West Asia and even some nea-nderthals like Mzungu.
Amazing! I had no idea the two languages were so closely related but it actually makes a lot of sense considering geographically they aren't too far from each other. Very cool to see :)
This video is very nice. You are actually reproducing what happened when arabic traders got to the east african coast and tried to communicate with the local people who developped over time this nice language called swahili. We have seen that fluent communication was not possible, but they could make themselves understood after some exposure to the language. We have also seen how swahili words of arabic origin got "softer" to make their pronuntciation easier for bantu peoples, but keeping them recognizable to the arabs.
Kiswahili is a language existing before even Arabs came to the coastal Kenya.Homeland of Swahilis before migration is Shungwanya and not mijikenda since they were welcomed by the Swahilis during bantu migration.History of Swahilis is deliberately distorted to create marginalization and con Swahilis of their lands.Real bantu languages usually end with a.
@@michaelrapando6658 Shungwaya is Mijikenda kingdom lol, but it was said to be multi-ethnic and consist of many tribes. Highland Kenyans like Kamba, Kikuyu, Meru, Embu, Mbeere are also to have derived from Shungwaya.
The 2nd Arabic sentence should be spelled as follows: "وصل محمد و حسن إلي المدرسة"
I apologize for the error in the video.
Happy to feature the Swahili language for the first time. Even though the core of the Swahili vocabulary comes from the native Bantu language family, it contains many words derived from Arabic, aside from the terms which are related to religion.
Follow and contact us on Instagram if you are interested in participating in a future video: instagram.com/BahadorAlast
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Please correct the Arabic sentence
وصل محمد و حسن إلي المدرسة
Or you can say
وصلا محمد و حسن إلي المدرسة
@@kristinamikail6447 there are many dialects of "Arabic".. that dialect might be one of them..
@@astesiaa
I speak Arabic
Born and raised in Egypt
I know the different Arabic dialects
@@kristinamikail6447 I see.. can you write something in arabic here, BUT IN LATIN SCRIPT SO THAT I CAN READ IT.. if so then kindly Write this - *"Physics and Maths are two seperate elements of the same branch, i.e Science"*
It’s great that the arab man mentioned the Comoros island we are often forgotten as a swahili speaking country
Are you from Comoros?
@@gurgenartsimovich8893 My father is from Mayotte island actually but it is the same
@@stevenelmas8629 french
@@djekoelada9969 In terms of nationality yes, but culturally it’s exactly the same btw
Do Comoros speak kiswahili, like the whole country
The young man from the 🇰🇪 coast is brilliant! Very well informed & a good communicator adding more info to a word. 👌🏾
He needs to improve his English just a bit the saudi guy speaks English almost to fluent
He represented Kenya well. Kudos!
They are all brilliant…no one comes to the show like this without being knowledgeable 🙄…moreover, why do we always like to compare? Rather than focusing on the content?
@@mohammedabbas5470 most of the pple from the coast region cant speak fluent english because they are more exposed to swahili more than english
@@mohammedabbas5470 for learning purpose he is okay
I would love to visit Kenya! It's an amazingly beautiful country.
You should very beautiful country.
@@ladydiana885 Certainty will before 2024, provided this whole Covid thing doesn't get in the way again
Beautiful beaches, food especially in coast. Mombasa , malindi.
@@ladydiana885 You're right indeed. Are you from Kenya?
@@markomiljkovic1137 yes .born and raise in coast place call likoni ferry. But move to USA.
I am Indian Muslim with Yemeni and Persian roots. And married into Swahili family of Oman. I am familiar with Urdu/Hindi, Arabic and Swahili. My own language is a mixture of Arabic, Kannada, Malayalam and English.
So.. waongea lugha zote
I am from zanzibar with omani heritage but we don't call ourselves arabs. We are proud swahili people.
@@HAmmar0121 racial pride isn't something you should promote and encourage instead encourage loving humans and judging them by their values and ideals like Deen
@@zaharabanoo6338 Everyone should be proud of their race, nation, culture....
Allah created us in different races, families and cultures and we should be proud of that which Allah has given us and at the same time we should love and explore our differences and similarities, we must realise we are all from Adam (a.s) and no one is better than the other.
"O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you." (QUR'AN 49:13)
What is bad about me saying I have omani heritage but I consider myself to be a swahili person? I am just talking about my background. Brotherhood between muslims is the most brotherhood but Islam did not say not to be proud of your culture and race, just don't think you are better than others.
Imam Ali (a.s) said, "People are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity."
@@HAmmar0121 Tuko pamoja kaka, my grandfather was from Moroni and my grandmother was Zinjibari Alhamdulillahi
I am swahili, but I have some Arabian descent. I am learning Arabic and because of loan words it is easier for me to memorize some words.
The conversation changed when they were asking about where Swahili is spoken so Mr. Naqib did not get to finish so I just will add that Swahili is primarily spoken in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, but also you will find many Swahili speakers in Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Comoros Islands, Madagascar, and outside of Africa in Oman, there is a significant number of people who have roots from the Swahili coast, the coastal area of the Indian Ocean in East Africa inhabited by the Swahili people, who speak and understand Swahili.
Well explained. Thanks.
Very informative, thank you
I think the confusion about Somalis speaking Swahili is the millions in North Eastern region of Kenya who speak Swahili. It's correct Somalia is not a Swahili speaking country
he said swahili is spoken in somalia i was shocked
@@cosmo_mosy no only somali people who live in kenya can speak sawhili we don't have any minority who speak sawihili language in somalia somali people have their langauge at least 2 milion people in kenya speaks somali language my be those are who can speak sawhili becouse they live in kenya i don't know why they guy included somalia as sawihli speaking nation
Much love to my Kenyan and Tanzanian brothers and Sisters. From Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Love and respect all arabs and swahili native speakers
🇸🇦🇰🇪
😍😍.
Swahili is not people it's a language!
Who are swahili people ? Just asking. 🇰🇪.
@@justinamusyoka4986 No such thing as Swahili people!
@@justinamusyoka4986
By the way even in uganda the language luganda also has some words that are the same as the ones in swahili.
@@andrelove9634 Yes Swahili is a language but people who speak Swahili here in Kenya we call them Swahili people
I love this...I'm from Nairobi, Kenya and here our Swahili isn't as 'clean' as our brother's and sister's from the coastal part of Kenya. They speak 'Swahili Sanifu' while in Nairobi our Swahili has a lot of influence from our other different tribal languages (we have over 40 tribes in Kenya and each tribe with its language)
I knew Swahili has a lot of Arabic influence and this is interesting to watch.
We also share a lot of similar words with the Turkish language which I find to be a very beautiful language.
Shukran 🙏 .Swahili wa mambasa wako wanati WAKILINDINI,WATANGANA NA WACHANGMWE
@@mwanaishakhamis8069 wamvita na wajomvu
Merhaba abla
Mlifunzwa mkakataa sheng tu ndio mwajua
Not that much like you intend to potray.Most Arabic words in Swahili amply mostly to things which were not native to Swahili or other bantu languages.most Arabic words in Swahili end with I the same applys to words created for modern things like computer_tarakilishi to imply its not native Swahili word.
Arabic language has influenced wherever it went with Islam even in India our languages have enormous influence of Arabic. BTW love to both groups they are muslimsm. love from India..
And colonization ;)
@@NoOneAndNotYouArabs intermarried and intermixed with the locals not just colonized
@@simsim6419 no comment :)
@@NoOneAndNotYou don't you dare Compare Muslimen to kîll ræpe mûrdér with middle easterners.
@@simsim6419 those were Islamic Allah Khayrul-Makereen the greatest deciver conquerers. Its not the fault of middle easterners. Cult member does not associate themselves with anyone else
Thank you for doing this. I've been reading a lot about Swahili recently. It's very interesting to see it has many Arabic words even though it is neither a Semitic or Afroasiatic language.
It's the same as Spanish, in the sense that it has some loanwords from Arabic (I think spanish has around 3000 loanwords from Arabic.). That said, the loanwords are only lexical, so they cover things like certain numbers, and physical items etc. There is no influence from Arabic in terms of its grammar, as the language is actually a variant from the Sabaki dialects spoken in Coastal Kenya/Tanzania. This is why people who speak other languages from the same language phylum (bantu languages) don't have a hard time learning the basics of kiSwahili, because they're pretty much the same. For example, the word (prefix) "ki" in other bantu languages are called "chi/isi/otji/oshi" and so forth, so the language of the Bemba people in Zambia for example, is called chiBemba. The language of the Kongo people (who are found in Congo DRC, Congo ROC, Angola etc) is called KiKingo, so the prefix there is the same as in KiSwahili.
I am Spanish. There are up to 20% spanish words that come from arabic, but most of them are no longer used, because they belong to things related to the old rural life, handicraft, specific words for outdated tools, etc.
@@oriolagullo9800 Are you from Spain?
Certain languages are influenced by others but are not family. E.g. Swahili, Spanish, Turkish, English. English is not Romance or Celtic like I always thought.
Ki- Swahili is a mixture of Bantu languages and Arabic, although afew other languages have been inter-mixed into it.
IAM FROM UGANDA 🇺🇬 AND I LOVE SPEAKING SWAHILI AND LEARN MORE TO BE FLUENT.
I learned Swahili in eastern Congo and then became a Swahili instructor in the USA for a while. In 208 I planned a 3 week trip to Morocco so I pulled out my old formal dictionary (Ashton, if I recall correctly) and then found 100-200 Swahili words with Arabic roots. It was so so so much fun to freak shopkeepers out with zeitun (olives) or tum (garlic) and on and on. A bit too in Turkey in 2019.
Please visit Tanzania home of swahili
@@luganomwaisumo1938 no its not the coastal areas of east african are home of swahili....watanzania wengine hawajui kiswahili mwajisifu na hamna kitu hapo
All the arabic words used by Saudi brothers are also used in formal urdu except the names of eating stuff.. And as a Pakistani i am also aware of all these arabic words🥰
Nice to see Swahili on here as a longtime fan of your channel and a Swahili person myself. Please continue to do more Swahili comparisons.
these guys were so lovely and friendly. thanks for this : )
Congrats to my brother from Kenya . You did a great job there #swahilination
Keep it brother from kenya, Iam wachting from germany 🇪🇺🇩🇪 swahili❤❤❤
I knew Swahili had some Arabic words but brooo this is so cool, there are so many similarities! I started to think that even my language (Kazakh) has less Arabic loanwords and I feel jealous
Oh and I just figured out that we say shalbar for trousers, I think it's kinda similar to suruali
As a Kiswahili speaker, it's way more similar to Bantu languages there's few words like 200-300 that are similar because of trade and slave trade and Islam but its mainly a Bantu language
@@gloriasarah9653
Even the word Swahili is an arabic word which means "coasts". The numbers are all arabic except 7 numbers.
Wow,this video made me remember my days as a student in kenya,I am orginally from india,My father had a job in kenya and we shifted there.I remember learning swahili for 5 years there,my first swahili teacher,Daisy tr I still miss her.
I am from Kenya and some swahili words also have some hindi e.g bas 😃
@@miladymyla Ooh,sorry I dont know hindi,I am from south india,i
hindi is not spoken here
I did my schooling in Nairobi South International School,its been almost 10 years now
Oh really. That is quite some time, Kenya misses you I believe 😀 and hope the swahili is intact
@@miladymyla I am from India . And Yes we Use Bas in Hindi.
Nice combination it’s really interesting and they are so talkative definitely learned more about our swahili language and heritage 💗 greetings from Watamu (kenya)
I wished Sudan can make swahili a lingua france to be closer to EAC
@@salihalash4111 You already have Arabic
I learned my salamu alekum, shukran, marhabaetc when I first vacationed in Dubai in the late 90s, I just felt it`s respectful to greet people in their language when they are already nice enough to welcome you.
Over the years, I have kept the practice, and in any place I visit, I try to learn the basic words.
Recently in Egypt(April) a shop owner was surprised when he whispered bismillah( when I bought something from him) and I understood, he did not expect me to understand a word Arabic being im a black woman.
thanks for amking such an interesting topic, really enjoyable.
Try to visit algeria north africa we also speak arabic and berber here. And moreover it is in africa in your continent
Amazing! The Swahili language is part of the Bantu language family (the group of languages spoken in much of central and southern Africa) but has had considerable Arabic influences. Today, Swahili is the African language most widely recognized outside the continent. Spoken in twelve countries, Swahili is the gateway to the rich culture and dynamic economy of East Africa.
Correction it's spoken in Southern East Africa and central Africa. It originated from the Bantus at coast of Kenya and they borrowed Arabic,Portuguese and Persian words, just like English has borrowed words from other languages. If you hear the coastal Bantus speak their native language, it's Swahili.
It's not just the language alone but Also the culture.
Bantu is not a language family but a branch of the Niger-Congo language family that covers most of western, eastern and southern Africa.
Next video Arabs should compare their Arab vs our Taarabu music and dance. Even music Instruments and especially our Bantu's Chakacha. That will be explosive!!!
@@eluemina2366 They will know soon that the Bantu are the ancient Holy people, the sons of Abram, Isaka, and Akobi,! And all languages come from AKA Africa even Hebrew which comes from Bantu and Aramaic!!
Shkulani for your Arabic & swahili . I m from Burundi and us also we speak swahili in Bujumbura ( country Burundi) So i’ m happy to watch you 👍🙏
proud of Swahili from Mombasa (Kenya)
Swahili Lugha ya Mama. Lugha itukuzwe! This is exciting to see the similarities between Swahili and Arabic. Amazing and educative discussion, folks!
Keep it up from Tanzania 🇹🇿
I was waiting for a video like this one! Thank you Bahador and well done guys for this beautiful exchange 👏
Lovely...picking up some similarities between Hausa and Arabic...
Hi there, watched a few of your clips, really enjoyed them, just wanted to say I love what you've got going here. Especially these days, it feels like more people around the world need to be reminded of the fact that we, as humans, have so much in common and our differences are negligible. Thanks and دمتون گرم.
Thank you bahador you deserve more views ❤
I know Arabic because I was born in the UAE, and when I traveled to East Africa to Zanzibar, I realized how close the swahili to Arabic.
Number of swahili and words is similar to arabic
Due to the rule of Oman in East Africa
Hata kabla ya utawala wa waomani kiswahili kilikua na maneno ya kiarabu hii ni kutokan a na muingiliano wa kitamaduni na uhusiano mwena na maeneo ya nje na waswahili pia jografia ya mwambao wa afrikamashariki na ishtighali mbalimbali zilojumuisha watu toka asili tafauti zilichangia
@@mohamedvuaa1579 ungetumia Kiingereza ,huenda haelewi kisw
@@ramyali6347 kama haelewi na aangalie nyenzo atayotumia kutafsiri na hapo atapata kujiifunza
@@mohamedvuaa1579 nam maka haq qan hnak alktheer min altbadil altgary been afriqa walbldan alarbiah khasitn swhil afriqia alshrqiah w alarab
methil alyemen wa oman
I wrote this in arabic but instead useing arabic letter i used english I don’t know if you understand it In arabic will be like this
نعم معك حق كان هناك الكثير من التبادل التجاري بين افريقيا والبلدان العربيه خاصةً سواحل افريقيا والعرب مثل اليمن وعمان جنوب شبة الجزيره العربية
@@waleedkhaled7898 naam swadakta
Our Kenyan brother is representing 🔥. Masha'Allah
I'm zanzibarian and so proud of Nagib, well spoken and confident.
@@HAmmar0121 Zanzibari, not Zanzibarian kaka
There are around 33 dialects of the Swahili language which are spoken from North of the Somali coast down to the Mozambique coast. Currently, Kenya speaks the Zanzibar dialect ,Kiunguja, as the national language. We have kimvita,kiamu,kisiu,kimtangata,etc.
Swahili has borrowed words from Arabic, Portuguese, even English. Every language does that.
Somali and kiswahili are related than Arabic
@@elizabethwanyonyi609 the Arabs came to trade with us and so now you know not the other way sround
@@Latifaposche where did I say we went to trade with them? The Arabs used Africans as porters.
Punguza kimbelembele
In Malaysia and Singapore, the Malays used ' binti ' in female names e,g " Fatimah binti Salman ". 🙂
Malaya in Swahili is derogatory. It means prostitute
Great video. It'd be good to include some African Arabic dialects like Egyptian and Sudanese as well as Omani which is the source of Arabic words in Swahili.
Actually Yemeni is the source... many Yemeni tribes have the harf g like in "game".. this harf is originally came from those Yemeni tribes and Oman
Ms gurll, Omani arabic is not an African dialect 😭
@@monasirtakesitall obviously I didn't mean to say Oman was in Africa. Did you really have to point that out?
The ancient ancestors of the motherland did not call themselves Africans and they did not name the land Africa in ancient time! Just like the ancient ancestors of KMT, did not call themselves Egyptians and they did not call the land Egypt in ancient time! No such thing as African Arabic dialect! The ancient ancestors started language with symbols in BC time. Language and writing originated in the motherland in BC time . Ancient time facts!
The Arabic language originated from the motherland language!
Swahili, Turkish, Arabic, Persian and Urdu are all very different languages but they are share influences with one another through millenia of history and immigration!
I love this video!!! I am always telling my Arabic speaking friends how Swahili has so many borrowed words. Great stuff. 🤓👌🏿🔥🔥
When I was doing my bachelor’s degree in Linguistics years ago, we had a fields methods class where we had to analyze an unfamiliar language. Our informant was a Lingala speaker from Uganda. Lingala is closely related to Swahili. I remember asking him the numbers and they were basically identical to the names of numbers in Arabic. So, salaasa is three and nisaa is nine. When I asked him how to say 3:00, the informant replied saa tisaa, which should mean 9:00 and when I asked him how to say 9:00, he replied saa salaasa, which should be 3:00. When I asked him how this could be, he informed us that they read the clock differently than other people do.
I think Lingala is spoken in Zaire/congo more than in Uganda,I`m not even sure Ugandans speak Lingala I love the language although I do not understand a word. Lingala has the best beats of music in Africa.
@@rikayangu3833 Should be Luganda
Well done Bahador, would be interesting to watch a video highlighting the similarities between Swahili and other Bantu dialects in Southern Africa as well. Thank You
There is lots of similarity from other African languages with Swahili
Hongera Sana mtoto wa kikenya,umetuakilisha vizuri
Am so amazed how similar swahili and Arabic are.. A proud swahili speaker
The young Kenyan guy is so pleasant and really intelligent too.
God bless.
Very interesting, thank you. I study Arabic and want to learn Swahili, too. I understood a lot in both languages, Saudi seems close to fosha. It encourages me that Swahili would not be too difficult to learn or at least to understand. I must admit, Arabic takes quite an effort and time, especially the grammar and the script, and the pronunciation, too. SALAMAT!
What level? Currently trying to become conversational in the language (which is difficult). Did you know a similar language prior to learn Arabic? I speak Spanish and English and although I can make some minor connections, the writing and some sounds are completely different!
@@ClassicGal Nice, go for it. 👏🌹
I studied arabic for many years and can have conversations with Arabic speaking people (but not about difficult topics). It makes me happy that I can understand entire phrases meanwhile, in the first years only some words. My level might be now approx. B1. But if I dont practice I forget a lot. My next goal now is to learn to understand and write short comments in Arabic on TH-cam, the translation option is helpful for learning.
I love languages and I am a professional translator for Italian/German and can speak also English, French and Spanish.
But besides some words in Spanish, Arabic was a whole new world for me.
@@ClassicGal What is your native language?
"Nje ni baridi" sounds like "l'jaw ghina barid" in Levantine Arabic. In English, "Outside here [it's] cold."
I might be wrong lol 😅
You're right 🤣
We say Nje kuna baridi or Nje ni baridi both are correct.
You are correct
Nje Kuna baridi
You're right
Hey I am Algerian north African muslim amazigh and I speak four languages arabic amazigh french and english long live muslims❤
Hey Bahador, my man! As always, a great video! I’m a language geek myself and love all of your videos! My suggestion for the next video would be - try to find native speakers of these languages: Vietnamese (northern and southern), Northern Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese and Shanghainese Wu and try to let them focus on the words that are loanwords from Middle Chinese language, if each of them could formulate a sentence that others could potentially understand (it is quite possible, just like many European languages use Greek and Latin loanwords)
Classical Arabic - Geez - Liturgical Aramaic - Biblical Hebrew
We need that one ✌🏼
Yesss
Amongst them.. My favourite is *"Hebrew"*
It's older than Arabic and Aramaic and it was the only language to come back from the status of "Dead language" to "Living Language"..
@@astesiaa That's wrong Aramaic is older than Hebrew
and Hebrew is not preserved Sematic language it is like speaking English with a very thick Chinese accent
@@astesiaa How are you bro ?
Can you remember me , I am your old friend.
@@nabatean180 incorrect, Hebrew is older than Aramaic..
Old Aramaic was first attested in 800BCE.. whereas Hebrew was first attested in 1000BCE.. so Hebrew is older than Aramaic..
And second, Hebrew is the only language that got revived by Israeli people in the 19th century CE.. and it is now on "Duolingo", "Blabber" and "Mango languages" as one of the learning languages..
Am a Swahili speaker from Kenya.I am learning Arabic online.Surprisingly, learning Arabic has really improved my Swahili vocabulary.I have noticed in the course of learning standard Arabic,that the less used Swahili vocabulary is actually used in day to day Arabic.This means that Swahili must have had more Arabic vocabulary in the past than it does today.
This was very good. Hassan, from Saudi Arabia, has a very good grasp on Arabic language! 👏
What about the other guy?
Wow nagib I'm so proud of my brother..... And thnx to all of you you did a great job brothers
He's your brother? He is very smart and knowledge
Mabruk my grand son .wish you all the best in your studies. Your aunt baby and family
Wow
LoL looks like the whole "Family" is here...
mashallah
Keep it up Nagib... Umetuwakilisha vyema wambombasa👏
Shukran rafiki tunafahari na furaha adhwim kupata elimu juu ya lugha yetu karimu kiswahili
Wow alot of similarities between Swahili and Arabic, I have always thought Arabic is a complicated language.. Well done guys.
It was a cool video. I loved that young Swahili guy. Great humor. And finally, the other guy laughed at the end. That was a joy.
For the trousers,
I see the Arabs and French have a similar word
Le pantalon and Bantalon.
In East Africa we adopt an English word
Longi from Long or long pants.
But pants is the more accurate description of a clothing which worn around the waist and has orifices for both legs which in Swahili would be
Suruali (both long and short) and Sirwal in Arabic.
Wow this has become one of my favorite channel! Swahili 🇹🇿🇹🇿
Swahili is the most popular language of Sub-Saharan Africa. Good to see it being recognized out there.
@@cosmo_mosy were you forced to learn it?
@@cosmo_mosy it shouldn’t be the language of Africa
Wow this was so enlightening,learned a bunch , Munir from 🇰🇪 represented us well
Kiswahili is the most beautiful language. In Kenya, we used to learn a lot of Kiswalili as a compulsory examinable subject in primary school and secondary school. Particularly I like Kiswahili poems, Kiswahili proverbs, Kiswahili vocabularies, and Kiswahili phrases. Unfortunately, after high school in Kenya, most Kenyans abandon Kiswahili and start speaking English for business and formal conversations while Sheng (Swahili-English slang) replace Kiswahili proper in ordinary informal conversations.
i used to be amazed hearing qur'an recitation and actually grasp some words that are totaly swahili.
بسیار برنامه خوبیه. یکی از موارد مهم این برنامه بهادر عزیز اینه که بی توجه به تاریخ و سیاست دروغ میشه همه باهم دوست باشیم. لذت بردم مثل همیشه عالی
There are about 16 million people throughout the world who speak a dialect of Swahili as a native language. As a second language, it has about 82 million speakers. The language is considered to be the lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of eastern and southeastern Africa. It’s been adopted by speakers of many different languages in Africa as a more universal means of communication, typically for commerce and trade.
It's inaccurate to say 82 million people speak Swahili as a second language, it's way more than that.
According UNESCO Kiswahili is spoken by more than 200 million people.
Bantu is a group of "Bantu language" speaking peoples that include Swahili speakers. The Congo is majorly Bantu-speaking and so are Tanzania, Kenya, southern Africa, central Africa, east Africa etc.
Great conversation. I would like to add my little knowledge to the already well explained language. I think that most of swahili words that start with letter s are actually arabic.
Saba =sab³a
Sita = sitta
Samaki =samak
Sufuri = sufur
Salama=salama
Saa = saa³ah
Sauti =saut
Etc
These are arabic words.
Wow. Bahador. As an Arabic speaker, I found this fascinating. Thank you . Another excellent example about how commerce and migration enriches culture 🥰🥰🥰
Don't forget slavery!
@@user-zc3tn2we1g yeah but thats how it usually goes with humans
@@koop8711 i know lol
Great conversation, I would like to join some day. I'm from Zanzibar actually.
This was really interesting...I have also learnt some Arabic words💕📚
Swahili has so much Arabic words it depends in which area you come from, some times in a sentence you can count 90% words if you can recognize by knowing Fus'ha, as well as local Arabic of other sects the like of Yemeni, Omani and Khaliji. but also the higher you go uplands the less Arabic it comes. The most semetic and much Arabic words in Swahili you will find in Kiamu special from Amu old Town.
And now I have a Finnish song called "Mombasa" stuck in my head. 😅 Thanks Nagib.
Mama fatuma
Am so happy that am learning here in TH-cam, am doing English language and literature, so am happy to learn other languages ( linguistics) thanks ❤❤
That was interesting, we have similar pronunciation and vocabulary
Swahili is spoken in East and South Congo , Rwanda, Burundi part of Somalia small number in Comoros but widely spoken by Kenya Tanzania and Uganda over 100million people
Love the video! I might be making this up but "Nzuri" kind of sounds like "Nzur or Nazoor" which means "visiting or we're visiting" in Arabic. So maybe "beautiful" in Swahili as in when someone visits you, it's kind of a good/beautiful thing. I don't know I might be wrong on that one
Nzuur in that context might be zurura...
Zuru-travel
Visiting is ZURU in swahili
Actually we say the same word for visiting in Swahili , Zuru , Nazuru
@@estherthea8180 no.. it's zuru...zurura means to loiter which is different from visiting
This is so amazing I have learn Arabic words in easy way🤗 🤗
I love this ,am from Mombasa kenya and watching from middle east
It would be awesome to take this further and explore the Arabic and Swahili words from other different languages.
Swahili started from the Bantus of the Coast of Kenya, the Miji Kenda people, hence Sahl. If you hear them speak their native language, it's Swahili, they are the WaSwahili (the Swahili) people. Amazing beautiful people, they're warm (very friendly), patient, kind and loving. Also our National anthem's tune was gotten from them.
Swahili is not from the miji kenda. There is the original Swahili people.
@@elizabethwanyonyi609 in which country? My friend learn your history well well.
The Swahili people are among the bantu who migrated from the Congo forest through Shungwaya in East Africa and later migrated to the coast. By then they were known as the Ngozi. When the Arabs came to the coast, they responded to them that:Sisi ni watu was Siwa hili. That is,we are the people of this large island. So Siwa hili turned into Swahili. The Miji kenda only learnt Swahili during the long distance trade. The 9 groups making up the Miji Kenda have their own dialects. You can do a little research on them.
I'm from Kenya and I teach Swahili in high school, for 22years now.
@@elizabethwanyonyi609 first, the name Swahili is derived from the Arabic word "Sawahil," meaning "coasts". 2. Why I wouldn't agree with you is because the whitewashed historical lies are so irregular, no one knows which to believe, they all contradict themselves. Stay woke.
Very cool, if we had Omanis, there would be far more common words
Yup .. I have an Omani friend and he speaks Swahili ..
@@JosephOccenoBFH so Omani is that different from standard Arabic?
@@markomiljkovic1137 yes. All arabic speaking regions have differnt dialects than standars Arabic
Omanis emigrated to East Africa more than thousand years ago through trading between them. They mingled with locals through marriages and through trading. The swahili language was born when the Arabs and the locals were exchanging their stuff through difficulties to communicate and understand each other.
The grandchildren and great grandchildren of the intermarriages are still in East Africa and others have returned to Oman. That is why you will see so many Omanis are swahili speakers
Please note that there are more than 3000 words in swahili which were taken from arabic language.
@@markomiljkovic1137 No. All Arabic dialects are similar to each others. There are minor differences. It may seem different for non-native Arabic speakers. But in the Overall picture, all Arabic dialects from Morocco to Oman are very similar.
Am a Kenyan from south coast of Mombasa-Kwale watching from EMIRATES.,Stayed UAE 9yrs & absolutely yes Arab words resembles Kiswahili eg YAANI in Arabic & Yani in kiswahili
Kiarabu hakijatupana mbali na kiswahili
That's Amazing I thought I would share that in Tanzania there are actually many Arabs.
"I am mo.". ... Never thought such a beautiful name like Mohamed will be shorten in Arabic representation.
Come again please guys
Very educative and interesting 🤔 👍
My grandfather lived in Tanzania for 30 years. Half of my uncles speaks Swahili. It's a beautiful language and i wish i learned it. I speak Arabic and I knew of the Arabic origin to so many Swahili words. I guess that would make it easier to learn it.
Wonderful, the Swahili and Arabic matches alot, wow
Where r u from?
There should be one comparing Hausa, Yoruba and Swahili as well. They all seem to share something with Arabic based on earlier Islamic influences. بارك الله فيكم
ALLAH BLESS THESE SPEAKERS
Who is Allah?
@@njugunamartinari7293
The One Who created us all.
Maa Shaa Allah
I'm Tanzania and Arabic is the mother of all languages ❤❤❤
Stop talking nonsense. Ancient Egyptian is thousands of years older than Arabic.
Hey guys. Thank you for this video, it's awesome and the first of its kind on the internet, well done. However, my opinion doesn't matter but I have to say this; you guys are sleeping on the similarities between Swahili and Farsi, or Comorian (Comoros dialect) and Farsi since the Sassanid dynasty settled Kilwa and minted the first coins of East Africa in the 13th century. If you can, please compare the Shirazi Farsi dialect with the Swahili dialect of Comoros or Zanzibar, if possible, where decendents of Persians still live today and are known as Shirazis
We are all brothers and sisters and cousins.....spread more love
Jambo
Hakuna Matata
Safari
Simba
Jenga
Pole pole
Some of the Swahili best known words and adopted worldwide
The young man from East Africa understands the link between Swahili and Arabic.
He sure does
One the reasons for the presence of Arabic words in Ki Swahili, is unlike the WaAfrika. many of the Waswahili have Arab ancestry. Like any who ventures to a foreign land, they spoke Arabic and gradually added non Arabic words to their vocabulary. 🍎
Correct. Especially Kikuyu, kamba, Meru, Tutsi and many others tribes in East Africa , including Tanzania Carry more than 2-20% West Asia ancestry.
Coastal Kenya down to TZ we have so many black people who originated from ancient Persia. They intermarried and assimilated
@@maragolihistory2118 NOOOOOOOOO
@@michaelcody3960 Check our DNA results on TH-cam. But pay attention to admixtures. Infact an avarage Kikuyu has alot of West Asia and even some nea-nderthals like Mzungu.
Swahili is a child, its mother is Digo and its father is Arab
Bravo my brother from Kenya 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪 more love all from Kenya
The word بنطلون (bantalon) actually came from the French word pantalon, but سروال (srwal) is a lot of times used for specific kind of pants.
And the French word *"Pantalon"* ultimately came from the Sanskrit word *"Pantran"*
srwal is persian or hindi word i guss in somali language we use surwal
@@gureyleaxmed317
Srwal is not a Hindi word, it's an urdu word
@@astesiaa hindi and urdu are same
@@astesiaa 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I love this, am Kenyan working in Saudi
Swahili I mainly influenced by Omani Arabic, alot of the words spoken in Swahili can only be found in Omani Arabic
Kiswahili only has 2-8 percent loan words from non-African languages, I don't know why people love to claim it's a non african language.
Amazing! I had no idea the two languages were so closely related but it actually makes a lot of sense considering geographically they aren't too far from each other. Very cool to see :)
This video is very nice. You are actually reproducing what happened when arabic traders got to the east african coast and tried to communicate with the local people who developped over time this nice language called swahili. We have seen that fluent communication was not possible, but they could make themselves understood after some exposure to the language. We have also seen how swahili words of arabic origin got "softer" to make their pronuntciation easier for bantu peoples, but keeping them recognizable to the arabs.
👍👍👍
Kiswahili is a language existing before even Arabs came to the coastal Kenya.Homeland of Swahilis before migration is Shungwanya and not mijikenda since they were welcomed by the Swahilis during bantu migration.History of Swahilis is deliberately distorted to create marginalization and con Swahilis of their lands.Real bantu languages usually end with a.
@@michaelrapando6658 Shungwaya is Mijikenda kingdom lol, but it was said to be multi-ethnic and consist of many tribes. Highland Kenyans like Kamba, Kikuyu, Meru, Embu, Mbeere are also to have derived from Shungwaya.
@@omoticwarrior5768 Mijikenda walikaribishwa Shungwaya na Swahili community during Bantu migration
Have learnt a lot from this video.Thanks for the upload