Kenyan Swahili VS Tanzania Swahili what's the difference /Tanzanian's understand kenya swahili ? 

I'm dying over here 😂😂😂, i didn't know that I needed this. But all i want to say is that there is no shame in knowing how to speak the so called "Ancient" Kiswahili/Swahili properly. Whether you are from Tanzania or Kenya. We have different accents due to various reasons...we all learnt that in school. Great video 👍🏼

As Kenyans, we don't speak fluent Swahili. Our Swahili has been influenced by English and tribal languages. The slang is out of this world, and it's generational. You should hear what kids and teenagers are speaking right now. I am 30 years but sometimes I don't understand a thing.there is even a slang dictionary in Kenya. It's that crazy. But we are proud of Tanzanians for keeping the fluent Swahili intact.

Nafikiria Inategemea Unatokea Upande Gani Kutoka Kenya Watu Kutokea Mombasa Tunaelewa Kiswahili Cha Tanzania 🇹🇿 Vizuri Sana Sisi Tuko Maeneo Ya Pwani kwahivyo hakuna changamoto zozote greeting from Switzerland 🇨🇭

In short Tanzanians speak better swahili... Its something to be proud about. English is not our language (Tanzanians or kenyans)and we should communicate in our own language..

I'm Kenyan. It's my first time here and I thought you guys were Kenyan. Your accent is 100% Kenyan.

there is a lot to comment on this video. i think the way to view this is we (Kenyans) view Tanzanian swahili the way Americans view British English.

Kenyans could speak good Swahili if they wanted to, but they choose not to. There is a general attitude among young Kenyans that good Swahili is for old fashioned people. It also explains why you rarely see a youthful person buying a Swahili daily newspaper like Taifa Leo. Kenyans deliberately water down and cannibalize the language, which is very unfortunate. Personally, even though I'm a Sheng speaker, I prefer we spoke the standard language and do so whenever an opportunity arises

Mkwanja is one of TZ slang words for money, it is mostly used in squater and people of that Race. The other slang synonyms for money is Mshiko, fuba, mpunga/mchele e.t.c

Being an American, I know what she is talking about. Kenyans on the coast speak Sanifu Swahili “Deep Swahili”. So do Tanzanians. In Nairobi they speak Sheng (it is what it is). And the further away from the coast you get the less the “Deep Swahili” is understood. Being a student if Swahili, I have run into these barriers often. Love the language by the way.

Am Ugandan. I have worked in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. Honestly, Tanzanians speak swihili faster and with more rare words. Most times, I have to ask them to slow and simplify for me. As a UGANDAN, I speak English most but understand Swihili. Tanzanians can not tell their are first while speaking Swihili, it is an out who can tell you. I love East Africa as a whole. Tanzanians are Unique in their way. Ugandans are more welcoming. Kenyans are workaholic.

I have done development work where kiswahili has been extensively used.Changamoto refers to challenges while shida refers to problems

Congrats girls. This was very exciting and pleasant to watch!

Am Arabic speaker although I don’t speak Swahili but if someone speaks Swahili slowly I can understand many words due to similarities between the two languages but I noticed that the TZ one is more clear I suppose or maybe because it is ancient as Kenyan girl said 😂 or (fasaha) which is an Arabic word. Great content though am subscribing to your channel I might improve my Swahili knowledge ❤

Hahaha this was so interesting to watch😂😂... Proud Tanzanian🇹🇿

Real and authentic. Thank you for sharing.

Nice video😍❤️ it’s a flex speaking your language guys 🇹🇿🇹🇿❤️❤️

Kenyans we don't speak Swahili ,we speak SHENG that no East Africans can understand expect us

I find it weird that the creators are speaking English in a Swahili 'curated' video. just speak Swahili and we'll see the differences in the speaking itself

Kama wewe ni Mtanzania na umechokeshwa na kingereza mingi zenye zimetumika hapa nipe like 👍 tukiendelea kujifunia lugha yetu ya kiswahili

Kiswahili in Kenya is heavily influenced by ethnic inclinations, in Kenya it's the youth who deliberately struggle to use their slang and refuse to use proper language. In Tanzania, they use standard Swahili but the wanyika...bantu population inland have have heavy ethnic pronunciation. All along the coastal area in Kenya and Tanzania use Swahili as their common language. You are discussing Swahili as commonly used by youth in urban and rural l areas....in both countries. But remember, Kenyan youth deliberately avoid or refuse to use proper Swahili so as to be viewed as urbanites or refined. Some words , like Hela actually refers to five cents, therefore Generally referring to money... Most bantu communities in Kenya and Tanzania have that problem of pronouncing R or L.... Ningefurahia Sana kama mngejadiliana kwa lugha ya kiswahili... ....

Thanks for sharing❣️

In Mombasa Swahili people generally think that Tanzanians apart from tanga and dar area aren't good Swahili speakers...Mombasa. Swahili is hands down the best in the world

Honestly Tanzanian songs are nice but some words are challenging and we need to go back to kamusi so that we can understand,but some are like slang because there are not in kamusi

But How do you compare TanZania 🇹🇿 Swahili with Swahili in Kenya 🇰🇪 while you know for fact that Swahili was born in Tanzania. How do you compare a Mother (TZ) with a child (KE) intern of Swahili language.

U got new sub here from Kenya nice content

As a Zanzibari who once engaged with both Tanzanians and Kenyans I'd assure you the standard swahili is only spoken in ZANZIBAR. The rest are just used to conveying their thoughts without regarding sentence structures, "TAHAJIA" and all the basic swahili grammar.

You people are cute. Linguistics, love from 🇰🇪.

English and Swahili are compulsory subjects in Kenyan education system in both primary and high schools.

You ladies are soooo Beautiful 💯% 👈...Funny Review of the subtle differences of two neighboring countries sharing the same language. Thanks for sharing, Now I want to learn Kenswali or Tanzenglish...lol Have a blessed day. Shalom✌🙏

Am from Kenya and grasp of the Swahili language is so good I guess It about your educational background

A person from Kenya bara will speak something like this: "Kiswahili ya Kenya, enyewe, kuna venye iko tofauti na ile ya Bongo kusema tu ile ukweli yani... Na si ju ati Kenya tunapenda kuongea Kizungu mingi- zi! Ile vita tuko nayo na Swa' ni ile kitu wanaita Sheng." Now, the above statement is in the typical spoken Swahili you'll encounter in mainland Kenya. Make your way to the Kenyan coast and it gets waaay better, almost a Zanzibari accent, with the vocabulary to boot.

Mkwanja we do use in Tanzania but it's a very informal language. We also do say changamoto but depend on a sentence you say and it's often use on formal matters and on papers. For me it's depend to which language I want to speak ,if it's swahili then I will think in Swahili,if it's English,I will think in English.

Yap we need that kind of video wacha tuchambue mbichi na mbovuu know what I mean let's go princess 😅😅

In the Kenyan education system, English and Kiswahili are compulsory from primary school to high school. But all other subjects like sciences are taught in English. Any Kenyan who went through the public education understands what proper Kiswahili is. The fluency varies though and what they choose to speak on the streets is up to them based on what they prefer whether it is English, Kiswahili, Sheng, mother tongue etc. Please, Sheng is not Kiswahili, so it should not even be used as a benchmark of proper Kiswahili and a way to judge Kenyans. Not all Kenyans speak Sheng and many do not even understand it contra to what is said out here. Also Sheng varies and changes based on location.

Just love your comparison... and love tanzanian gals there just cool and respectful...bh see our gal here😂😂kiherehere miingi alfu kucheka miingi

Kenyan: Kama singe-come unge-do? Tanzanian: Nisingelikuja ungefanya nini kakangu?

We as swahili people we don't see the difference between each other coz first we came from same tribe and we are related in many ways and I think most of people from coast of 🇰🇪🇹🇿 have same way of speaking swahili

Tz Swahili is like from Jesus's days type of English.. Thy Thou Thee knowest... very Shakespeare like!! Kenyan swahili is simple...like easy Chinese.Much love from 🇰🇪

I understand TZ songs more than kenyan yet I'm Kenyan. I am not perfect in swahili but I understand everything a Tanzanian says, talking is where I draw a line. Kenyan songs are in sheng and sheng in Nairobi is quite different from sheng in another town. Different shengs different places, yaani ni lahaja na kila mtaa una lahaja zake.

Wakenya wengi wanaongea Kiswahili kibovu. Ni kwamba hawakijui vizuri, bado wanajifunza. Ukitaka kujifunza lugha hiyo vizuri, nenda Tanzania

Swahili is broken down to lahaja, kimvita in mombasa, ki amu in Lamu, Kiunguja in zanzibar and Kingwana in DRc..and so forth so comparing better swahili in wht country ni upuzi...kaa na mamayako😂

hehehehe much love from Kenya. Worked in Dar back in 2010. Anytime i opened my mouth to speak they would be like "lahaja yako ni ya kikenya". Eventually i used to tell them "Bora tuwasiliane"

I feel like when it comes down to languages, there's no such thing as better because everyone will use the Standard Language according to their regions. Of course for Swahili speakers we also have circles like those who speak it as a first language (Waswahili) are the inner circle or originals if you like then those of us who have it as a second language (majority) depending on your indigenous tribes ,am Luhya( Western Kenya) for instance, are the second circle then we have the expanding circle i.e. Congo and South Africa and I think recently Rwanda too. Different factors will always affect language so there's absolutely no way anyone will ever be fluent, like region, accent, language growth etc. So no there's no such thing as ancient language, it's their way of talk and how they understand each other and disregarding that is shear ignorance. Anyway, the difference between Kenyan and Tanzanian English is our wording and accent . Kenyans choose the shortest way possible to say a word even if it means mixing it up while Tanzanian is more straightforward but both have different pidgins created from them according to language play in their regions, there's no shame in wanting to speak a certain way.

From Kenya. I have enjoyed this video.

Its true.. we don't be getting the words in your music.. we just be vibing

Tanzania Swahili has a lot of Bantu words unlike the Mombasa, lamu Swahili which has a lot of Arabic words

Hata Tanzania kuna mikoani huko hawaongei kiswahili kizuri,,,inategemea wapi unatoka,,,na wana problem ya L na R

We as swahili people we don't see the difference of each other coz we are related in many ways ,but maybe other tribes of Tanzanian/kenya they may see the difference,

Yes we do understand the songs as Kenyans. Kenyans know Kiswahili sanifu but we prefer the simplest words to quickly pass the message!!! However this is the part Tz people don’t like, Kiswahili was born in Kenya.

I have never heard the swahili word of jishongoe correct me if I'm wrong

Of course we understand. She's not a typical Kenyan to be honest. She probably speaks English all the time. But we mostly understand

Sister Halima looks awesome, uuui moto kama pasi

Pure swahili sanifu is spoken in zanzibar Town only in East Africa...other part in East africa speak swahili depending on the region they where they are from and their understanding and swahili was influenced by Arabic, Portuguese and some of the bantu languages

WtHat. Does. Mani. Mean?

Mkwanja is a "street" language meaning money in Tanzania. In Kenya alone Kiswahili from the coast and the rest of the country differs, same situation in Tz.

Swahili was born in Tanzania got sick in Kenya & buried in Uganda.

Shida and changamoto don't mean the same changamoto refers to challenge ....and shida refers to a problem

Mkwanja is used in TZ as slang but mostly by males. Proper: Pesa, hela, fedha, sarafu. Slangs: mkwanja, mtonyo, mpunga and so on…

Another thing, Tanzanians will easily read a newpaper in Swahili while Kenyans struggle to read Swahili even if it's their first language. Almost no one reads a Swahili newspaper.

Yes. As a Tanzanian, I have heard "mkwanja" used waaaay to often specifically when I was younger(I'm now in my early 20s)

I have a tanzanian boyfriend it's quite a challenge when we r trying to speak Swahili coz mine is so funny 🤣 buh he does understand me kinda...buh most of da time it's English but all in all I do understand Swahili 🤣😂🤣 ata kama ni kibaya ....much luv from qatar 🇶🇦🇰🇪🥰

Yeah true thus what we think ..thus what we learnt in high school..we sing to the songs but we dont understand

Shida = Problem Changamoto = Challenge They're two different words. Mkwanja is a common Kiswahili slang in Tz.

Mkwanja, Mtonjo, Kibunda, Ankara, Mapene, Mshiko, Jala

This girl is even struggling with English 😅😅😅 and she saying she is fluent in English 😭

Nyimbo za kiswahili hasa bongo flava. Wanaimba kwa mafumbo na ni hasa ni matusi. Ili watoto wasijue. Lakini matokea watoto wanakuja kua pia. Sasa inabidi hujue mthamiati vizuri.

Mkwanja in Tanzania we use it as local word most wahuni(gangs) use it so it's not legit tho!

Its very true that R and L seems to have the same meaning....sometimes it gets very boring watching their movies.

Mwambieni L & R ipo Kenya zaidi haswa kwa Wakikuyu (L&R) na kwa Wakelenjin (V&F)! Amsikilize James Mwangi wa Equity Bank!

I would suggest you do a video on Kenyan Swahili in the coastal areas of Lamu ,Mombasa, Malindi ,Kwale and Kilifi and compare it with TZ swahili because in this video, you have a one sided view that will make viewers make wrong conclusions. That way, you'll get a different perspective and move away from generalizing that Kenyans don't know how to speak swahili. To me, i believe the lady schooled in a private school where the main mode of communication is English but for public schools , Swahili is taught from Kindergarten to High School in a deeper way. Also take your time and watch Kenyan TV news at 7 pm and also radio stations because thats where you'll know Kenyans also speak equally good swahili.

Yes we used the name Mkwanja long time as slang TZ

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

I am a South African who was born in Kenya and I love Tanzanian Swahili is very deep than Kenyan swahili. I stayed in Mombasa and when they speak they not far fetched from Tanzanian

Pesa in Tanzania is Mkwanja, mpunga, noti, mapeni, ...

Kiswahili is not a stable language (grows everyday) with many dialects (lahaja). The three main dialects being "Kiunguja"(Zanzibar & most parts of mainland TZ), "Kimvita"(Mombasa & south coast Kenya) and "Kiamu"(Lamu Archipelago), and is inappropriate to point that a certain dialect is correct than the other. Kiswahili we learn in schools here in Kenya is "lahaja ya kiunguja" (which was selected by the British colonial regime to standardize Kiswahili in East Africa). It is very different to other dialects spoken by Kenyan coast people in terms of words pronounciation and connotations, e.g. "Lahaja ya Kimvita" spoken by people from Mombasa; they tend to use "t" instead of "ch", for example, they say "tumbi instead of "chumvi", "tungu" instead of "chungu" etc. Lahaja ya Kiamu is the most difficult to understand of them all even people from Mombasa and other south coast places say they don't sometimes understand what their fellows are saying. I don't think using a single dialect as reference to test eloquence in a language is proper. I mean, you can not use British English to test an American's knowledge of the language because they have their own dialect. And by the way, they could have used "lahaja ya Kingozi" or just "kingozi"(the origin of Kiswahili) to standardize Kiswahili if they had to.

Asalam alykm. Wabongo tunatumia neno mkwanja mbona sana tuu. Mi nimeondoka bongo miaka zaidi y 20 sasa n najua mkwanja inatumika pia km hela.😄😄😄😄😄

In kenya we do kiswahili as a subject from class 1 to 8...in form 1 we also have kiswahili to form 4 fasihi etc..the problem is the rest of the subjects are in english.but broken swahili,sheng and english carry most of our day to day conversations..We do understand tz songs huyo pekee ndio ako na shida.

Kiunguja over here

You’re sister is beautiful!

I’m Kenyan and a lot of times people wouldn’t believe I’m actually Kenyan when I would speak… It actually depends on where one grows up as well as where you went to school…

Fusha in Arabic means clear/proper. So it could be similar in Swahili.

Kenyan here 😅. So, I'm still stuck at their academic Swahili is bomb. That's it, it must be physically painful being in a Tanzanian school. Fun fact... Tanzanian authors think their Kenyan counterparts make up unnecessary vocabularies which is weird because normal readers of said works rarely understand most of the vocabularies. Most Kenyans would rather listen to the radio or watch the 7 pm news bulletin which are primarily done in Swahili. The question is on the fluency or rather the Tanzanian rigidity to fluency which the Kenyan speaker lacks. Say the r and l phenomenona, it exists in kenyan Swahili in Bantu speakers like the Kisii. In Kenya it's rare so it's easy to spot, but since it is relatively broad in Tanzania it kind of dissolves into a norm.

Unanipelekesha Msobemsobe ni unanipelekesha bila ya hiari/hovyohovyo/kwa kunizoa! Ni Lugha ya kiamri yaani ya kipolisi/kijeshi!

Tanzania songs sounds swahili, we behave like we understand them but in real sense we don't get the meaning of the song details.

Spoken Swahili Tanzanians take the lead. Our Swahili in Kenya has been affected by English language which is the language of instructions in our schools and tribal languages which is spoken in most homes.

There are some words which some Artists use which are not Swahili but are streets language

Hey guys watching from 254 ,proper Swahili can also be referred as kiswahili sanifu that's the correct word

Im Kenyan,my thoughts are always in English,but when it comes to speaking,I go for Slang

HATA HUYU MAMA SIO MZURI SANA KWA KISWAHILI.PIA NAYE ANASTRUGLLE KUELEZEA TOFAUTI YA KISWAHILI CHA TZ NA KILE CHA KE.

Kenyans too don’t often use ‘matata’, they rather say, poa (I am cool). And jambo is often ‘sasa or mambo.’ Additionally, Kenya Swahili depends on regions and an individual. The hakuna matata phrase became famous through a Kenyan coastal group Them Mushrooms song Jambo Bwana. The ‘r’ problem has to do with the influence of mother tongue. Some Kenyans too have such problem, also for English.

"Mzobe-mzobe" from a tribal word "nzobe" means donkey, so the onomatopoeic word mzobe-mzobe simply conorts the carrying of somebody the way a donkey carries its load or rider, that's rough riding of a donkey.

Just watched this and my little two piece is that "sheng" Kenyan slang is not real real Swahili but rather a combination of several tribal languages in Kenya including Swahili ...like sometimes I can listen to a sheng sentence and in that sentence there's a combination of Swahili,kikuku and luo...so yeah that's my opinion Second, I know Swahili is a general language in both Kenya and Tanzania but really to be honest it's really hard to understand TZ'd Swahili as a Kenyan,my dad's from Tanzania and I barely understand him sometimes especially when he gets in to the deep deep Swahili.. so all in all Kenyan Swahili is quite different from Tanzanian while speaking but when you go to school like dictionary wise it's these same🤦 so sielewi why there is such a big difference in pronunciation from both countries.

Yes we do using the word mkwanja

I'm a typical Nairobian - born and bred...but I don't say "iko shida", neither do I use the word "matata". 🤣🤣

Mkwanja is a popular slang used in Tanzania which means money.

Swahili our brothers and sisters in Tanzania speak good original smooth Swahili,its just amazing... Our Kenyan Swahili is influenced by a lot of things especially different tribal languages, we have slang that I too don't understand, it's different for different age groups..

In Tz we cold money mkwanja expecial in Arusha,also mapene or mavumba,she is rayt.

I have only one question...why do Tanzania pronounce the word "r" like "l" ? Sijui kama ni wabongo tu ama ...? Sielewi. Lakini naeza sema kuna watanzania wengi that speak fluent swahili compare to Kenyans

I think the lady from Kenya is from Nairobi as to oppose to somebody from mombasa

I just feel like she didn't pay much attention while in School because we learned Swahili from the first class to college. The difference is we prefer English more because it's literally everywhere and also kenyans speak alot of tribal languages.