Do you think African languages have hard grammar and are hard to learn?

[adaharari]

In Somali, you can't even tell when to use spacing.

What about things like plural, verbs, adjectives, gender etc
Im sure there are rules

 

[embarassing]

It's true African languages are very diverse so the question is similar to asking about languages in general.

All i'm saying is somali has a lot of lone words as well. And so does English now that i think of about it, it's normal.

I used to believe this too but we usually have words in the Somali language for most of the commonly used loan words.

 

[embarassing]

What about things like plural, verbs, adjectives, gender etc
Im sure there are rules

There are. We just don't know our language that well, clearly.

 

[MadNomad]

I used to believe this too but we usually have words in the Somali language for most of the commonly used loan words.

So what's the somali word for ice cream? I only know the commonly used Italian lone word.

 

[adaharari]

It's true African languages are very diverse so the question is similar to asking about languages in general.



I used to believe this too but we usually have words in the Somali language for most of the commonly used loan words.

I know I meant for non africans, all could be seen as equally hard, what do you think of the difficult of somali?

 

[embarassing]

So what's the somali word for ice cream? I only know the commonly used Italian lone word.

Why would there be a Somali word for ice-cream? Sorry, I should've mentioned this, this doesn't include things that obviously didn't exist until recently among Somalis. Like gelato, fargeto, rejabeto, etc. I mean things like albab, waji, labis.

 

[embarassing]

I know I meant for non africans, all could be seen as equally hard, what do you think of the difficult of somali?

I guess it depends on which language/s you already know. It's easiest I believe for another Cushitic speaker to learn and I guess it branches out that way. Kindve like it would be easiest for a frenchmen to learn Spanish or Portuguese over mandarin.

 

[MadNomad]

Why would there be a Somali word for ice-cream? Sorry, I should've mentioned this, this doesn't include things that obviously didn't exist until recently among Somalis. Like gelato, fargeto, rejabeto, etc. I mean things like albab, waji, labis.

I wasn't being serious

Isint words like albab and waji Arabic though?

 

[embarassing]

I wasn't being serious

Isint words like albab and waji Arabic though?

Yeah they are, they're also the first words I would use or would come to mind when speaking Somali. But some of my relatives including my dad sometimes would use irid, or dharka so xero instead.

 

[MadNomad]

Yeah they are, they're also the first words I would use or would come to mind when speaking Somali. But some of my relatives including my dad sometimes would use irid, or dharka so xero instead.

Hm, fair point. Well in that case, time to purge the somali language clean of all foreign words

 

[Apollo]

There isn't a lot of good content in African languages besides the big ones (Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba etc). Learning one of the smaller ones like Afar is next to impossible if you don't actually live there.

 

[embarassing]

Hm, fair point. Well in that case, time to purge the somali language clean of all foreign words

I'm trying to purge them from myself

 

[adaharari]

I guess it depends on which language/s you already know. It's easiest I believe for another Cushitic speaker to learn and I guess it branches out that way. Kindve like it would be easiest for a frenchmen to learn Spanish or Portuguese over mandarin.

For an english speaker, do you think its very hard or moderate?

 

[Apollo]

Bantu languages are generally disgusting. I was reading about Tanzania the other day and came across a place called "Ngorongoro".

Ouagadougou

 

[adaharari]

There isn't a lot of good content in African languages besides the big ones (Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba etc). Learning one of the smaller ones like Afar is next to impossible if you don't actually live there.

Good content for Hausa? I've rarely seen any

 

[Apollo]

Good content for Hausa? I've rarely seen any

Broadly speaking, the languages with more than 15 million speakers you can learn from the internet. The smaller ones, not so much.

Only a handful of African languages have more than 15 million speakers. The vast majority are weird tribal languages.

 

[Arman]

Ouagadougou

I was hoping that was some racist mockery.

 

[adaharari]

Broadly speaking, the languages with more than 15 million speakers you can learn from the internet. The smaller ones, not so much.

Only a handful of African languages have more than 15 million speakers. The vast majority are weird tribal languages.

There would be more to learn from if content came out of the continent too rather than just books written out of africa
Surprised there is not when many speak english too

 

[SOMALI GENERAL]

Bantu languages are generally disgusting. I was reading about Tanzania the other day and came across a place called "Ngorongoro".

If the bantus seize our country they'll re-name Xamar "New Ngorongoro"...

 

[Apollo]

If the bantus seize our country they'll re-name Xamar "New Ngorongoro"...

We already have Bantu urban names

Shangaani

Chisimayu

Make Somalia Cushitic Again :siilaanyolaugh: