Africa's Resilient Native Languages 

What native African languages are you able to speak?

Liberia was colonized by Americans. There is a difficult history of gross mistreatment of the original inhabitants and the American colonists denying them rights and citizenship on their own homeland for much of its colonial history.

Many native langueges are present in africa and are very widely spoken. These foreign languages are used in official terms around the capital cities and other popular cities. Whenever you hear % of this nation are illitirate it means that % of ppl in this nation don't speak or write in the official language of the nation which is most of the time a foreign language

I really like this episode, I hope you do more videos about the different languages that are spoken in different parts of the world.

Your pronunciation is horrendous for my Kenyan ears but it's a beautiful video. Never thought of it that way.

Funny how you called Benin... Benign

Nothing about swahili?? Umm okayy

1:17 Afrikaans is a native language tho sure it came from Dutch but was created here in South Africa. The same happend with Xhosa and Zulu it was created out of a Bantu language that came from up north during the Bantu migration 2000 bc - 0 ac.

Surprise surprise even the danish owe reparations

How Ethiopia can be described as never having been colonised is beyond me. It formed the most substantial portion of Italian East Africa

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10:21 familiiiieees bro why do you speak like that 😭

I didn't expect this episode to be so Togo-centric. Don't get me wrong, it was great and I think it should be a start of a series on African countries and other multi-cultural states! I just didn't expect it based on the title

I am South African and Sesotho is my home language . In SA we have 11 official languages , 9 of them are native African languages which are Sesotho, venda, sepedi , xhosa, tsonga, tswana, zulu, ndebele and swati. All 11 official languages are equal. Any of these languages can be used anywhere even in parliament. At home and in public native languages are dominating and english dominates in advertising.

You've been branching out from just etymology in some videos lately. I for one am all in for these experiments

Fun fact: Rwanda, Burundi and Madagascar are the only countries in Africa where an indigenous language is spoken by the entirety of the population

I would love to see that as the start of a new series. I know Togo was only meant as an example, but it would be cool to see the rest covered, too.

Like the mountains in Togo, the lack of many natural harbors inhibited the slave trade and slowed colonization in parts of Africa. This was the case in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).

I like the way how there is a country called Republic of South Africa, another one called Central African Reublic but there is no North African Republic or Republic of North Africa.

XhosKa, Benign? Hehe I love when you do these little pronunciation mishaps. Sometimes I think it's on purpose 🙂

The title of video is misleading I thought you would mention the african languages that is resilience but more than 90% was in Togo. I think you should make your video title more obvious.

I once met a guy from (Northern) Togo who spoke 15 languages haha

Are you talking about colonization (robbery and crime) or languages in Africa? Africa is the birth place of humanity and languages.

Fun fact: most European or Asian countries were also colonised at least once in their long history

Am very proud to be Ethiopian alhamdulilah ❤ Ethiopia 🇪🇹 ❤ ♥

I agree with other comments that the video title is a bit deceptive because this was obviously primarily about this single, tiny country in western Africa, but still very informative, as always. 😕 Just strange that u made this title choice unless u had planned this being one in a series.

Awesome! Very interesting history. Thanks!

On the same day Geography Now released the Tanzania episode. Coincidence?

Really good, if simple, history lesson. Love it!

I have only heard the French tainted Ewe language with its many 'wo' s.

Ethiopia was not colonised because i'ts capital was inland unlike the somali and afar empired around it that were coastal. That gave ethiopia a chance to regroup and take down the colonisers while others were taken by surprise. Ethiopa also benefited from colonisation as it expanded it's empire and since colonisers were not aware of any other sovereign land other than ethiopia so all the uncolonised parts were recognised as ethiopia despite ethiopia never being there. Gode is a great example of a place that was apart of ethiopia that ethiopia didn't have power in. It got ahold of that town/city only in 2006 as ethiopia was heading to give foreign aid to somalia.

Holy crap that pronouncement of Xhosa 😂

Please never use red on green.

Oh no need to backtrack N.E. colonizers do indeed be "spreading their tongue" on natives. *very unfortunate.*

This looked like a really interesting video, but I couldn't hear it properly as there was background music playing the whole time you were talking, so I gave up half way through.

Now we know what to do next time we colonize a place--go lick all the mountains! I spread my tongue that way every time I claim a new planet.

Lesotho: "Bruh."

The Gold Coast isn't rich in gold though...

80% of this video is about Togo. One of the smallest and practically insignificant country on the continent that doesn't even have that many indigenous languages spoken outside the country. You should change the title of this video from Africa's resilient languages to Togo's.

Can you use "you're" at the end of a sentence like, "Look at how mad you're."?

Not what I had in mind when I said I wanted my order _To go_ but whatever.

It really sounds like it ultimately means "that place on the other side"

Libya and roc(republic of Congo)

Sierra Leone has a similar "debatable" status to Liberia.

Pretty inaccurate title lol

He said benine instead of benin

Of course today Africa has been almost bought up by the Chinese and there's practically zero reporting about this, until the tipping point 💤🇬🇧😎

I don't understand why people say Ethiopia was never colonized. It was, briefly, by Italy during WW2.

Ethiopia was colonized by Italy a couple years before WW2. Why do people keep saying they were never colonized.