Saying Hello in West Africa | Easy Bambara 1

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"An ka taa", a project dedicated to providing lessons, resources and media for students and speakers of Manding--an important West African trade language spoken commonly as referred to Bambara, Dioula, Malinké or Mandinka. Mali footage taken and re-edited from Episode of the An ka taa series "Na baro kè" ( / ankataa )
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Host: Coleman Donaldson (www.colemandon...)
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Комментарии : 135

@makarandkinikar7786 5 лет назад

Nice to hear a different language on this channel.

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Glad you liked it :-)

@mariamniare3036 3 года назад

I feel so accomplished that I grew up with this language and to see that some people want to learn it it make me feel so happy

@Ankataa 2 года назад

I ni ce, Mariam 🙂

@KMO325 5 лет назад

Great video! It's been a few years since a non-European language was featured on this channel. I hope to see more, especially from Africa.

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Thank you! I've got 7 more episodes for you on my channel -- hope you'll come check them out at some point :-)

@africapeace1962 5 лет назад

this is unbelievable u speak my language more than me am proud of u and i really like the video as well

@Ankataa 4 года назад

Haha, I'm sure not as well as you, but I'm trying! Thanks regardless :-)

@seydoudenile 2 года назад

@Africa Peace…. I was going to say the same thing. 😂😂 He literally surprised me with his project “An Ka Taa” 😲🔥. I had to listen to his story after seeing it. You’re just a hero, Coleman ♥️💪💪.

@mahalo675 5 лет назад

Very good I’m impressed! He sounds like a native speaker for sure! Soninke,🇲🇷 Bambara 🇲🇱 🇸🇳,Malinke🇬🇳 and Dioula🇨🇮 🇧🇫 are very beautiful languages and I’m glad as an Ivorian we have such wonderful people on our land. I think the reason they have different names is because if there accents with Soninke being a different language there pretty much the same.I am Akan my people and the madinka have a very good relationship and we are very similar in a lot of ways.Many other people groups like the Wolof,the mooré and my people the akans have mastered there tonge too due to the importance in the region so it’s a language that’s unifies us kinda like Swahili I’m east Africa even though the majority of us know French .

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Thanks for this insightful comment, Fae! Glad that you pointed out that Soninke is a distinct language -- many people (and sources) on the internet frequently include it incorrectly in Manding -- which is made up of Bambara, Malinké, Dioula and Mandinka as you said :-)

@RogerRamos1993 2 года назад

Are those four languages closer than Spanish, Portuguese and Italian?

@gulsumkoc3582 4 года назад

Such a beautiful language, I love it❤ Greetings from Turkey!

@চিন্ময়মজুমদার 3 года назад

Merhaba!

@RonShenkar 5 лет назад

An african language, amazing guys! Hope to see much more of it :D

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Thanks! Glad you liked it. I've got a bunch more episodes on my channel so have a look when you are ready :-)

@jtmaruyama9724 5 лет назад

Love seeing a new language!

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Glad you liked it -- if you would like to see more from West Africa, I hope you'll come check out some of my other episodes :-)

@joanssen2602 5 лет назад

Very beautiful language. It sounds very interesting to hear. I’m glad you made this video and hopefully more to come!

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Thank you! I've got a bunch more on my channel so have you look when you are ready :-)

@vio3366 5 лет назад

what a beautiful alphabet! loved this

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Thank you! The alphabet is called N'ko :-)

@vio3366 5 лет назад

@@Ankataa May I ask, how was it as a foreigner to learn their language? I am quite curious i myself know a lot about languages, but I had no heard anything about Bambara.

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

@@vio3366 Of course you can ask :-) It was a joy and a wild ride -- I was serving in the Peace Corps when I started learning it so I was fortunate enough to have a strong teacher before being immersed in the language every day. That said, I could have opted to just use French, but I knew that it would shut me off from most of the people that I was meeting and interested in learning from and working with. It certainly wasn't easy; I often sounded like a fool and didn't know what was going on around me, but I was learning so much about different histories and ways of living in this world that it was an obsession and a passion for me through out the two years. It also helped that I was lucky enough to find friends that were willing share their language and lives with me.

@davidgo2019 5 лет назад

It sounds sorta like Arabic.. Beautiful language

@kelsiermistborn 5 лет назад

I was talking to a friend at theater camp earlier about how frustrating it is to find resources to learn African languages. Glad to see more added!

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Cool! What languages were you two looking for stuff? I've got a bunch more videos on my channel and lots of resources for Bambara/Manding on my website (ankataa.com)

@alyhaidara9221 2 года назад

I’m originally from Bamako, I really like this video

@Ankataa 2 года назад

Nba! I ni ce, Haïdara :-)

@chiara9928 5 лет назад

Beautiful sounds and writing!!

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Glad you like it :-)

@chiara9928 5 лет назад

@@Ankataa I subscribe

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

@@chiara9928 I ni ce! ('Thank you!') :-)

@dorkasaurus_rex 4 года назад

This was awesome, so interesting to see how seriously they take greeting and politeness!

@Ankataa 4 года назад

Thanks, Dork! Glad you liked it :-) Let me know what you think of my other episodes!

@doj.makeup 5 месяцев назад

لقد أحببت الفيديو شكرا لنشر ثقافتنا 🫶🏾ممتنة

@moussabouare4432 2 года назад

It’s great to see people sharing our language THANK YOU for your hard work. Lots of us mix it with french I was happy to see you speaking so fluently and not adding any french like lots of people do.

@Ankataa 2 года назад

Thanks a lot, Moussa :-) Hope that you'll check out some of the other street interview videos that I did!

@sebas346 5 лет назад

Wow that's so interesting! I couldn't imagine greeting everyone I meet on the street

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Hard to go back after you get used to it :-)

@sebas346 5 лет назад

That used to be that case here in Costa Rica too about 50 years ago; everyone would greet each other on the street as they passed by, but it has been lost to the point it only remains in very small towns and especially among older people. It's a shame, but at the same time I wouldn't feel comfortable doing it. I guess it's the way I was brought up.

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

@@AndersGehtsdochauch Wish we had a bit of that here in Hamburg :-)

@7Bullseyes Год назад

It's amazing how in The United States if you are from the South,you are taught to say Good morning to people as you go on your way. It is one of the many African retentions in our culture. My wife smiles when, I speak to her in Bambara. I picked up some in The Gambia, and my family is in Cote D'ivoire. I had to pickup French,but it is important that my daughter retains her Bambara,so I am intentional about learning it as well. Salaams wa nur pour tous le monde

@cubicle89 5 лет назад

We should all start greeting everyone on the street. I kind of try to do it when I pass by people on a lonely street or a mountain path... but everyone? That's a new challenge. I bet it would make our days better though. Loved the video.

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Thanks, Dimitris! :-)

@carlmac4446 5 лет назад

We need more West African videos!

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

I do one a month on my channel :-)

@DtothekProductions 3 года назад

That is actually very interesting. I am from western europe, and, I remember people greeting eachother much more about 20 years ago. Maybe that's because I was a kid then and the world was more shiny. Or perhaps because individualism and ego have grown thanks to the internet. But either way - people tend not to greet eachother where I live. However, I do enjoy it, and so, I do greet people - not everyone, but people who look open to it and friendly. It's nice to get insights into the culture of those in this video as I actually immediately relate to basically everything they are saying :D and that's kind of the first time properly relating to other humans on this. I think everywhere, strangers should greet - for even just one of the numerous solid reasons given in this video.

@Ankataa 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing, DtotheK :-)

@margaretkopretina 5 лет назад

Fantastic! Love the sound of this language and I'm interested to learn more about it :)

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Glad you liked it Maggie Anne! I've got some beginner videos on my channel to compliment the street interview stuff that I currently release once a month :-)

@theundertaker6565 5 лет назад

Very interesting video, language and people. Thanks

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Glad you liked it! Hope you'll check out some of my other West African videos

@lifsadiop2735 3 года назад

Tank yout for that

@yoboyblue4100 2 года назад

I understand everything u just said I speak this language

@yakzivz1104 2 года назад

This is good to know before visiting Mali.

@Ankataa 2 года назад

I ni ce, Yakziv! :-)

@Mezelenja 8 месяцев назад

So I speak Soninke (born in America) and listening to these people talk is so strange cause I wont understand a thing, then like a fragment of a slightly familiar word pops up with an adjacent definition then I continue not understanding the rest of their sentence. Never had this experience before, very interesting!

@fridamoreno4224 5 лет назад

This language sounds so strange in my ears, but I love how foreign it sounds. I can see some French roots in the pronunciation too.

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Good guess, but it's not that it has French roots at all actually :-) What you are hearing are modern day French loanwords that stem from the colonial period plus the modern role of French as the official language of Mali

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

@@AndersGehtsdochauch Nba! I ni ce -- You're welcome! Thank you :-)

@ledernierutopiste 5 лет назад

Not French roots at all, just that they probably speak French aswell and they are switching to French for some words sometimes, but there is litteraly 0 thing in common with French in the original language.

@linkin5961 2 года назад

@@ledernierutopiste Thank you for saying so. Yes, I notice Mali, Senegal and a few other countries whom speak French as well due to colonization will use some French words. Similar to bilingual or multilingual people that will bounce between two languages. Bambara as you have stated in not a French derived language but a Niger Congo language of West Africa.

@Soujagrll 3 года назад

This is the language my family talks. And I can’t really speak Bambara but I can understand it!

@Ankataa 2 года назад

I ni ce, Venuscried! :-) Tell your family that I say hi. Maybe the videos can help get you speaking a bit more! 😬

@brittanywilliams5078 5 лет назад

Love it

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Thank you, Brittany :-)

@fatoumattajarbi6058 5 лет назад

Oooo wow that's my language but a little bit different, we speak mandinka in Gambia and it originated from mali

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Nice! Yeah, Bambara and Mandinka are both varieties of Manding -- the language of the so-called Mali Empire of medieval West Africa :-)

@bouwatraore6201 4 года назад

Super

@Ankataa 2 года назад

I ni ce! I Traoré!

@edwardvictorau 5 лет назад

OMGOMG, I instantly googled "Bambara". Never ever heard of this language. I like the writing of this language. Looks a bit like Amharic.

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

The writing system is called "N'ko" - I've got regular videos for Bambara on my channel so come have a look if you want!

@sergemetral 4 года назад

I am blown away by the quality of your Bambara, do you offer classes?

@Ankataa 2 года назад

I ni ce, Serge! As you now know, yes, I do :-) www.ankataa.com/course/

@deesnoop 5 лет назад

As soon as I'm done mastering Russian I will learn this. Which was unfortunately be never. I was love to just learn the alphabet though. Looks cool!

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

"Dɔɔnin-dɔɔnin kɔnɔnin b'à ɲaga da" (Bit by bit, the bird makes its nest!) -- a little Bambara/Manding proverb to help you along with the way with Russian :-)

@deesnoop 5 лет назад

@@Ankataa Thanks for the boost!

@malidevGames 3 года назад

hard to listen, but easy to learn :)

@ousmanewane4352 Год назад

Oh my!

@ikuchans 5 лет назад

Very interesting to see how they insert french words in their sentences lol

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Similar to how many people all over the world do the same with English :-)

@aishaseck4055 4 года назад

There language has French and some of the words have the same meaning in French.

@djangocisse8637 2 года назад

You speak Bambara better than me and I grew up speaking it fluently! 😭

@Ankataa 2 года назад

Haha, I don't know about that! I'm sure that you could teach me a thing or two :-)

@думатьиначе 5 лет назад

Actually, it is really weird to see a white guy speaking perfectly an African language, I am white too and just wow respect, sounds very beautiful. As surprising as a African guy able to speak Russian. This lil’ shock is obviously something positive. Keep it up!

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Thank you! I hope the video can be a small encouragement for people to study and learn African languages when they visit or work on the Continent in the same way that Africans learn others' languages :-) I'm keeping it up on my channel -- one episode a month for all of 2019!

@burhancelikbas6658 5 лет назад

Good idea 👌🏻

@Ankataa 2 года назад

Nba! I ni ce!

@Chinookdog 5 лет назад

How did you learn to fluently speak French and Bambara? Did you do peace corps somewhere in west Africa? Awesome work!!

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

I learned French originally through high school, college, study abroad in France etc., then later, yeah, I did Peace Corps in Burkina Faso where I learned and spoke "Jula" every day for two years. "Jula" and "Bambara" are mutually intelligible and something like American English and British English. Since then I've become a researcher so I've been lucky enough to keep learning the language and going back to West Africa regularly :-)

@Chinookdog 5 лет назад

An ka taa! That's awesome!!! We need more people learning less commonly taught languages!! I just did a Fulbright grant in Uzbekistan and had my interview for peace corps Kosovo (hoping for good news) so it's very exciting to meet other people studying "niche" languages. Thanks for bringing more awareness of languages spoken on the African continent to this channel!

@Fifi2Fifi1 4 года назад

Are you still in Germany? What city? Such an interesting channel!

@Ankataa 2 года назад

Hi phiii! No, I don't live in Germany anymore. I live in Paris, France now! :-) Hope you'll check out some of the other street interviews that I did!

@Dutch802 9 месяцев назад

Sounds so much like mandinka

@cabdiwaasacmo8460 5 лет назад

Moi je ne rien capte mais je regarde car ce belle langue mais peut-être vous parler plusieurs langues alors merci continue

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

J'y manquerai pas :-)

@diouranke 5 лет назад

Bamanakan isn't easy, pretty good job

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Thanks, Nafisah :-)

@militerupgrade2540 5 лет назад

please more upload for this video

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

I do similar videos every month on my channel :-)

@sammysam7014 2 года назад

Wah, it sounds very difficult

@Ankataa 2 года назад

Hi Sammy! It's not so bad once you start learning :-) It's pretty simple "morphology" -- not a lot of conjugations to memorize, so that's nice!

@Liggliluff 4 года назад

(3:05) You "If you don't greet, you're worthess. You get denounced and disrespected!", he says as a man goes by without anyone greeting. Well, there's a faint voice in the background. But none of the people on screen, nor that man going by, did any attempt at greeting.

@apatheticpanda182 3 года назад

I speak arabic and i understood a sprinkle of it

@Ankataa 2 года назад

Yeah, there are some Arabic loanwords in Bambara! :-)

@ismaelburgos66 5 лет назад

Great video, give me a ❤

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Glad you liked it :-)

@mcld4214 3 года назад

Cudos to u, u know my language better than me lol

@Ankataa 2 года назад

I'm sure that you know some things that you could teach me :-)

@emierdanish2002 2 года назад

I had one of friend who come from Bamako, Mali. I always heard my friend speak in Bambara. Totally, I can't understand.

@MentalPistol Год назад

How Did you learn Bambara?

@yasinnkhann 5 лет назад

WTFFFF THIS GUY IS FLUENT IN BAMBARA TOO??!!

@Ankataa 5 лет назад

Haha, guilty as charged!

@dieh2197 3 года назад

waaaaaas du sprichst auch noch deutsch?! Jackpot hahaha

@Ankataa 2 года назад

Moin! Ja, Deutsch kann ich auch ein bisschen. Aber ich wohne nicht mehr in Deutschland... Ich werde bestimmt es vergessen :-/

@max-db9pq 3 года назад

What is the name of the writing system?

@simongame3027 2 года назад

Hi ich komme aus Mali, wo sind sie in Deutschland?

@LellePrinter82 5 лет назад

Never heard of this language before. Interesting, call me crazy if i want, but I thought that i've heard a few similarities to arabic and hindi.

@donaldsoncd 5 лет назад

Typologically there's no similarities, but there's a decent percentage of Arabic loanwords in Bambara because of the history of Islam's influence in the region :-)

@LellePrinter82 5 лет назад

@@donaldsoncd Ah, I see thanks. :)

@ismaelburgos66 5 лет назад

First comment!