African Language | Can They Understand Each Other? 

That’s gonna be exciting 😅

Definitely, especially since those languages are actually related to one another, like Ryan said. I'm sure most Bantu speakers can guess the meaning of these words: kurya, umuntu, umwana, ingurube, imbwa, tatu, amaso, ururimi

I wish they make the African edition of "Guess What African Country I'm From"

For sure if the South African person is Venda or Ndebele, it would be very easy.

I agreed!

Thank you 😅

​@@riannedaemul❤🇿🇼 😊

She's so beautiful.From Tanzania 🇹🇿

That’s great 😅

Ur like me came for Zim 🇿🇼 but stayed for them all too.

Hausa people mainly live in West Africa.

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She's gorgeous!

Thank you, like her ancestors, the Pharaohs 🥰❤

She's classy.

Lol the pharaohs of ancient egypt are not her ancestors. Arabs are​@@HØRŪŞ_442

haa ndaseka 😂😂

Mmm Hansi kunzwa zvakanaka..

Guys what did you want me to say😂 Asi handisi muSalad tho😅

I thought she meant she’s got great hearing 😂😂😂

You were amazing and you represented well.

Aww thank you 😊

I tell you, it’s a hustle 😂😂😂😂

😂"ndikole" my Afrikaans hearing sounds like frying meat, preparing meat lovemaking braai turn

Lol frying meat

Thank you 😊

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aita kakukanganwa😂

Haaa guys please 😂😂😂our interpretation of Shona is different and by the way they put the statement l had to translate it like that 😅

aewaa😂😂@@riannedaemul

not really, the west african languages are quite different from the bantu(southern/central/east african) languages. also there are the nilotic, san, and mbuti languages. since zimbabwe and namibia populations emerged from the eastern bantu migration(i know namibia is located in southwest africa, but the population got there through a long route through the eastern part of africa. you can notice they pronounce the r quite strong, opposed to western bantu languages. they share more similarities then with western bantu languages like lingala, kikongo, kimbundu (congo, northern angola).

I find it funny to see "black Africa". I mean...that's like saying "white Ireland". 😃

@@malcolmmunyaza thats like saying white europe!

@@l.n963 Right?! 🤣😀😂😅

​@@malcolmmunyaza I understand, it's obvious Africa is the land of the Blacks but keep in mind that the current situation in some areas due to historical events don't reflect this, therefore it's important from time to time to make mention of it.

Ndinonzwa zvakaipa- not feeling good it doesn't sound really more meaningful in Shona how about handisi kunzwa zvakanaka

effects of colonialism lol we can't escape anglais

Sis 😂😂ndisiye lol

In standard Arabic Kum masculine kuna feminine but because she used the dialect so there’s no difference

That’s beautiful.

True, especially if they are compared with similar other clicks from Southern Africa e.g Xhosa (SA), Ndebele(Zim), Khoi -khoi (Nam), Setswana (Bots, no clicks but similar sounds), very interesting 😅

I can’t breathe 😂😂😂

Swahili and Southern African bantu languages have a lot of similarities.

How do you say that though

​@@riannedaemulYou have a point Ryan, tinotenda ikoko for being on i-Show for eZimbabwe

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If you're not educated just say so 🤣

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From town😅

The Swahili plural of "kitabu" is "vitabu", which makes no sense to the Arabs.

@@pierreabbat6157 I’ve Kenyan friend I don’t want to say that I can understand everything from him but Arabic and Swahili shares a lot .. the word Swahili itself is an Arabic word سواحيلي سواحلي which means coastal

That was a miss

maybe there is no model that speaks swahili

Hi

@@riannedaemul hey

homegirl varikunzwa zvakaipa🤣

Guys zvinoitika amana😂

Swahili has alot of Arabic words

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Gen’a Amana cut me some slack 😂

Im not feeling well - handisi kunzwa mushe

Or zvakana

@@tadiwamagura9625 yea, l know that one!!

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She's a black woman. She's albino.

I think she’s albino

She's Albino😭. Lacks melanin but she's black.

She's albino

She is a black woman

It’s been adopted by many African countries and most have their own dialects. Tunisia: Tunsi Morocco: Darija Algeria: Darja Arabic Mauritania/Western Sahara: Hassaniya Arabic Niger/Mali: Saharan Arabic Nigeria: Kanuri Arabic Chad/CAR: Chadian Arabic Uganda/Kenya: Nubi South Sudan: Arabi Juba/South Sudanese Arabic Comoros: Comorian Arabic Sudan: Khartoum/Sudanese Arabic Egypt: Masri/Egyptian Arabic Libya: Libyan Darija That’s 18 African countries that have their own unique Arabic dialects plus many other languages like Malagasy, Wolof, Swahili, Hausa, Somali, and Habesha languages have been influenced by Arabic. So when Africans take the language and adopt parts of it or make their own dialect it is an African language whether it originated there or not.

Technically you’re right with Arabic being a Semitic language, but since it’s spoken in the entire north coasts of Africa today, it’s not wrong to be here, even if it’s not it’s natural habitat so to speak, at least not in it’s pure form, much like French, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch … are also spoken in Africa and have generated languages spoken today … Afrikaans is still an African language today even if it’s Dutch for the most part. Give the production team some slack, perhaps they couldn’t find a Copt Egyptian beauty who speaks Coptic in South Korea 😂, making it technically a purely African native language as far as Egypt goes 😊

That’s like saying English is not an Australian language because it is British.

@@UsedName-dg1vm ..Yes English is not an Australian language lol. It’s spoken in Australia sure but not an Australian language Same with Arabic not an African language but spoken in Africa.

You are smart.at least 10 countries speak Arabic language in Africa

You lie 😂

I guess that in reality there are more then 7000 languages, because often the line between what is called a language and what a dialect is blurry and sometimes political. For example German is usually just counted as one language because only Standard German is an official language. Though there are dialects and they can differ a lot from Standard German. They have not only differences in pronunciation but have also different words and also differences in grammar. Someone that only speaks Standard German would for the most part not understand what I am talking if I use my local dialect. Maybe he could guess a few words here and there, but not enough to be able to understand it. Therefore if the definition what a language is, is based on mutual intelligibility then for German alone you could add several languages to the total count. I guess that similar things can be found in other languages too, which would increase the total number of languages that in fact exist.

Bffr just because you don't know the amount of languages that originate from africa doesn't mean they ain't existing. Like do you really think languages such as yoruba, Xhosa, kinyrwanda and so further are all derived from european or arabic languages ? a few ones including swahili, somali and amharic might have been influenced by arabic but they're still african languages. I ain't even talking about the fact that you said "european languages" even tho they barely have loanwords from these.

There are more languages in Africa than any other continent

@@toyosia8051*"Humans are thought to speak more than 7,000 languages across the globe - 7,139 to be precise, according to Ethnologue. Asia has the most of them, 2,300, followed by Africa with 2,144. There are 1,313 tongues spoken in the Pacific region, followed by 1,061 in the Americas while Europe has 287 different languages"* Source the NSA because they would _never lie to us_ 😈

As an african , yes i can confirm our African ancestors before europe colonisation used to communicate with their body language instead 😮

African language = language of African. The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2,100,[1] and by some counts at over 3,000.[2] Nigeria alone has over 500 languages (according to SIL Ethnologue),[3] one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong to many distinct language families, among which the largest are: Niger-Congo, which include the large Atlantic-Congo and Bantu branches in West, Central, Southeast and Southern Africa. Afroasiatic languages are spread throughout Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel. Saharan, Nilotic and Central Sudanic languages (previously grouped under the hypothetical Nilo-Saharan macro-family), are present in East Africa and Sahel. Austronesian languages are spoken in Madagascar and parts of the Comoros. Khoe-Kwadi languages are spoken principally in Namibia and Botswana. Indo-European languages, while not indigenous to Africa, are spoken in South Africa and Namibia (Afrikaans, English, German) and are used as lingua francas in Liberia and the former colonies of the United Kingdom (English), former colonies of France and of Belgium (French), former colonies of Portugal (Portuguese), former colonies of Italy (Italian), former colonies of Spain (Spanish) and the current Spanish territories of Ceuta, Melilla and the Canary Islands and the current French territories of Mayotte and La Réunion.

Lol. Arabic is spoken by *most* people in Northern parts of Africa. Not just in Egypt. And it has its existence in Africa for thousands of years.

@JarirMacaurog ok but that's north Africa. Just like Arabic is spoken in west Asia. Doesn't mean rest of Asia would understand. Being apart of the same continent doesn't mean they all speak one language. Educate yourself buddy

Your point doesn't make sense either. First of all, we are NOT talking about the origin of the languages here. So in a literal sense, [Egyptian] Arabic can be called an African language too since it is a language of few countries in Africa.

So your point is, in order for a language to be called an African language, it should be like CONTINENTAL language that *could be understood by anyone* in Africa? How would that be possible?

Lol. I'm an Asian myself. And I don't understand Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Korean, and Malay. Does that mean that as a Filipino my language is not one of Asian languages too?? Stupid.

So you are saying that Arab people from North Africa are not Africans? No you're wrong. They are Africans too.

arabic originates from egypt and assyria