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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Nobody: 12:37am On May 29, 2017 |
fanficgirl:did Swahili originate from Kenya ? |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by bantudra: 12:52am On May 29, 2017 |
genieluv: are you interested to realy know me...??... ![]() ![]() |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by bantudra: 12:54am On May 29, 2017 |
uzzyfire: who cares..Swahili is just a mix of arabic and indian anyways...Swahili is not african or bantu...... if you study Swahili very closely you will find out it has many similarities with the arabic and indian languages.. Swahili is nothing special... Swahili is like africaans of early days of slavery... |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Nobody: 1:13am On May 29, 2017 |
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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by fanficgirl(f): 2:06am On May 29, 2017 |
genieluv:Yes, she did! I believe around April. I love her for being slim since I'm very slim as well. YouTube! My account is only filled with African videos. I try and go when I can! Was supposed to fo this summer but something happened |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by fanficgirl(f): 2:07am On May 29, 2017 |
bantudra:That awkward moment when Swahali is a bantu language with only slightly atabic influences.. 1 Like |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by CocoMilian(f): 2:27am On May 29, 2017 |
uzzyfire: Lol Seriously tho are people still boosting their esteems through comparisons ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by fanficgirl(f): 2:40am On May 29, 2017 |
uzzyfire:I think Mozambique and Zanzibar. If I'm wrong, Kenyan fonts correct! |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by fanficgirl(f): 3:19am On May 29, 2017 |
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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Isahalbash(m): 4:38am On May 29, 2017 |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Isahalbash(m): 4:52am On May 29, 2017 |
genieluv: Like seriously, dey know how to laugh with their half goro teeth. 1 Like |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Isahalbash(m): 4:57am On May 29, 2017 |
bantudra: Baba...the thing weak me gan |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by fanficgirl(f): 6:08am On May 29, 2017 |
Isahalbash:Do you not sleep |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by fanficgirl(f): 6:08am On May 29, 2017 |
CocoMilian:Is this about to get messy? |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Nobody: 7:13am On May 29, 2017 |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by fanficgirl(f): 7:15am On May 29, 2017 |
TayserMahiri:How do you feel about Asians wanting to be classified as an ethnic group? |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Nobody: 7:19am On May 29, 2017 |
fanficgirl: I have no issue with that. Most of them call themselves kenyan asians anyway but kenyans simply refer to them as Indians regardless of where they originated from ![]() Do you feel its a good thing? Is it similar for AA's? |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by fanficgirl(f): 7:44am On May 29, 2017 |
TayserMahiri:Lol AA peoplw revel in their blackness and hate whites too much for that. That's a good strategy that Singapore uses. If only Nigeria was to follow! |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Nobody: 7:51am On May 29, 2017 |
fanficgirl: Somebody here already said Nigerians are hardcore racists |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Nobody: 7:57am On May 29, 2017 |
fanficgirl: This is true. I think Swahili is just too beautiful that some people are jealous ![]() Swahili is a Bantu language with many borrowed words from Arabic. It existed long before the arrival of the first visitors on the East African coast who were Arabs. The Swahili morphology is similar to that of other Bantu languages. For example, when constructing a syllable just like in all other Bantu languages there are six structures i.e. (1) Consonant and vowel e.g. dada(sister) (2) Syllables formed from vowels only e.g. oa(marry) (3) Syllables formed from consonants only e.g. mtu(person) (4) Syllables formed from more than one consonants and vowel e.g.ngoja (wait) (5) Syllables formed from a consonant semi vowel and a vowel e.g. mwalimu (teacher) (6) Syllables formed from two consonants a semi vowel and a vowel eg mbwa (dog) Bantu languages have nouns that are grouped into different categories known as noun classes. These divisions are based on grammatical agreement in a sentence brought about by subject noun agreement; Swahili has noun classes which also rely on subject noun agreement. Lastly, Swahili language has five vowels (a,e,i,o,u) just like other Bantu languages. In fact, English is more Germanic than Swahili is Arabic. 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by PissedYagami(m): 8:07am On May 29, 2017 |
bantudra:Naaah Swahili is Bantu with a good % of it being borrowed from Arabic, more like English is Germanic with a lot of French words. And there are very few Indian words in Swahili 1 Like |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by bantudra: 8:13am On May 29, 2017 |
PissedYagami: sooo,you admit that Swahili is not realy a black language....and how did Indian words landed in it??... did you ever asked yourself that question ![]() |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Nobody: 8:15am On May 29, 2017 |
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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by PissedYagami(m): 8:16am On May 29, 2017 |
fanficgirl:There is a list. There are 42 tribes minus the tribe number 41 on that list, but Americans being Americans are selfish af. 1 Like
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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by PissedYagami(m): 8:19am On May 29, 2017 |
bantudra:Naaah East Africa is really cosmopolitan, Arabs and Indians been here for 1000 plus years. So they mix with locals and swahili is born. Swahili language and Swahili culture. But Swahili is bantu, in grammar and syntax. Actually there are more Portuguese words than Indian words |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Nobody: 8:19am On May 29, 2017 |
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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by PissedYagami(m): 8:30am On May 29, 2017 |
Swahili language, also called kiSwahili, or Kiswahili, Bantu language spoken either as a mother tongue or as a fluent second language on the east coast of Africa in an area extending from Lamu Island, Kenya, in the north to the southern border of Tanzania in the south. (The Bantu languages form a subgroup of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family.) People who speak Swahili as their sole mother tongue are usually referred to as Waswahili, but this name refers to their language only and does not denote any particular ethnic or tribal unit. Swahili is widely used as a lingua franca in: (1) Tanzania, where it is the language of administration and primary education; (2) Kenya, where it is, after English, the main language for these purposes; (3) Congo (Kinshasa), where a form of Swahili is one of the four languages of administration, the main language for this purpose being French; and (4) Uganda, where the main language is again English. Swahili has been greatly influenced by Arabic; there are an enormous number of Arabic loanwords in the language, including the word swahili, from Arabic sawāḥilī (a plural adjectival form of an Arabic word meaning “of the coast”). The language dates from the contacts of Arabian traders with the inhabitants of the east coast of Africa over many centuries. Under Arab influence, Swahili originated as a lingua franca used by several closely related Bantu-speaking tribal groups. In the early 19th century, the spread of Swahili inland received a great impetus from its being the language of the Arab ivory and slave caravans, which penetrated as far north as Uganda and as far west as Congo. Swahili was later adopted by European colonialists, especially the Germans, who used it extensively as the language of administration in Tanganyika, thus laying the foundation for its adoption as a national language of independent Tanzania. In Kenya and Uganda, other local languages also received official encouragement during the colonial period, but the tendency in these countries is now to emphasize the use of Swahili. The oldest preserved Swahili literature, which dates from the early 18th century, is written in the Arabic script, though the language is now written in the Roman alphabet. There are about 15 main Swahili dialects, as well as several pidgin forms in use. The three most important dialects are kiUnguja (or Kiunguja), spoken on Zanzibar and in the mainland areas of Tanzania; kiMvita (or Kimvita), spoken in Mombasa and other areas of Kenya; and kiAmu (or Kiamu), spoken on the island of Lamu and adjoining parts of the coast. Standard Swahili is based on the kiUnguja dialect. Swahili is characteristically Bantu in its grammar, and it has a large vocabulary of word roots traceable to a common Bantu stock. Swahili nouns are divided into classes on the basis of their singular and plural prefixes; prefixes are also used to bring verbs, adjectives, and demonstrative and possessive forms into agreement with the subject of a sentence. Thus, in a sentence with wa-tu, “people” (singular m-tu, “person”), all the words begin with the w-/wa- prefix; e.g., wa-tu w-etu wa-le wa-kubwa wa-mekuja: “those big people of ours have come.” Verb stems may be extended by means of varying suffixes, each one with its particular nuance of meaning; e.g., funga (“shut”), fungwa (“be shut”), fungika (“become shut”), fungia (“shut for”), fungisha (“cause to shut”), and so on. |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Hbuyosh(m): 8:33am On May 29, 2017 |
bantudra: uzzyfire, Kiswahili is a bantu language which originated from the eastern coast of Africa nearly a thousand years ago. It was being spoken by the people residing from the Southern Coast of Somalia, and in the Kenyan coast before it eventually spread to Tanzania, all the way to Mozambique and much later into the hinterlands of the east coast. Batundra does not know a word of Swahili, I dont understand why he should act tge expert here, making this ignorant claim that Kiswahili is all Araabic and Indian admixture, nothing bantu in it. May I inform u sir, that Kiswahili is 80% Bantu, with some of its words borrowed from Arabic, Poetuguese, Hindi and English....even German. In some places in Kenya and Tanzania, there are dialects of swahili being spoken, which seems unadulterated by forign influence. It is purely bantu. http://www.glcom.com/hassan/swahili_history.html 1 Like |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Nobody: 8:38am On May 29, 2017 |
Swahili was originally spoken along the coast of Tanzania and Kenya and some accounts claim it was known as ki-Ngozi. Traders from the coast spread the language to the nearby islands and inland areas, and then traders from those areas spread it deeper into the continent. When foreign traders from the Middle East arrived to the coast (mostly Omani Arabs), Swahili absorbed a lot of Arabic words. It is a Bantu language with a lot of foreign influences to say the least. Arabic played the most important role since the majority of foreign loanwords come from it. During the colonization of the area by the Portuguese, Swahili incorporated Portuguese words into it. It also incorporated words from Persian and Malay. It has 5 vowels (a, e, i, o and u) and they are all fully pronounced. It also has nasal consonants. It is an SVO language (Subject-Verb-Object). Swahili is basically a Bantu language with a lot of influence from other languages (Arabic, Persian, Portuguese, Malay). |
Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Nobody: 8:44am On May 29, 2017 |
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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by Nobody: 8:48am On May 29, 2017 |
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Re: Kenya Is Ahead of Nigeria In All Aspect (Facts Don't Lie) by NairobiWalker(m): 8:52am On May 29, 2017 |
fanficgirl: Kiswahili originated in Kenya. Lamu to be specific - the region used to be called Shungwaya by then. The Zanzibari Sultanate later came to rule the whole Swahili speaking regions reason why many people believe Kiswahili originated in Zanzibar. 3 Likes |
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