What do you think the language should be if Africa was to be united

[Basra]

What do you guys think of this? If there was one language that would be spoken in Africa, what would it be? I'm taking a guess. I would say swahili, but again there are so many that don't know Swahili especially West African countries

We don't want coloniser's languages. I know among them which is English, an International language. Be it french, portuguese, or English anything to do with colonizers, A phat NO
So, what do you think about this? Do you want each region in Africa to have one language or the whole of the continent and what would be the language? I thought Somalis would refuse or find it difficult to speak Swahili, but the ones in NFD are doing good in speaking it. Don't know if amharas find it difficult tho.I would say swahili is a close call for me.

I don't know why, but I dislike french speaking countries more than English ones, even though they're both colony languages

Choose a language and not an argument or questions here

English & French

 

[Dalmoor]

It sounds nothing like Arabic though. Arabic influence is exaggerated by western scholars. A person in Congo can understand some Zwahili. You think an Arab or Berber understand this:

Ninakula ugali na ndizi......

There are borrowed Arabic words and It's Origin.
The word Swahili itself is derived from Arabic Sawahili سواحلي which is plural for ساحلmeaning [Language] of the Coast.
hatari خطر
Safari سفر
mahali محل
msumari مسمار
kata قطع
huru حر
kamusi قاموس
samahani سامحني

There are so many I can count for you, if you want.

 

[Pastoralite]

It will be a torture to them

,but Swahili borrowed some Arabic words

This one african told me arabic is originally an african language

 

[BankaTuyo]

Coz they have pride in their language

who said Africans aren't proud of their languages?

 

[Dalmoor]

English & French

Remember NO COLONY LANGUAGE

 

[Dalmoor]

This one african told me arabic is originally an african language

 

[Basra]

Remember NO COLONY LANGUAGE

I cant live without English. So i guess i am not going back Africa

 

[Dalmoor]

I cant live without English. So i guess i am not going back Africa

Good choice.

 

[BankaTuyo]

I cant live without English

English is overrated, i'll teach you af-Qowdhan; but there is a risk you might get a permanent injury in some of the muscles in your tongue!

 

[Basra]

Good choice.

ok maybe arabic?

 

[Dalmoor]

ok maybe arabic?

You wanna torture Some Africans with Arabic. They can't even pronounce the words like ع instead pronounce it as a. On top of that it's not an African language maybe the North and horn can have it which they do now but not South-Eastern bantu countries

 

[MARAQ DIGAAG]

There are borrowed Arabic words and It's Origin.
The word Swahili itself is derived from Arabic Sawahili سواحلي which is plural for ساحلmeaning [Language] of the Coast.
hatari خطر
Safari سفر
mahali محل
msumari مسمار
kata قطع
huru حر
kamusi قاموس
samahani سامحني

There are so many I can count for you, if you want.

Loan words mean nothing in the greater linguistic sense. Somali probably has a similar amount of Arabic loan words, if not more......Swahili deserves more respect as a pure Bantu language.......

 

[Basra]

You wanna torture Some Africans with Arabic. They can't even pronounce the words like ع instead pronounce it as a. On top of that it's not an African language maybe the horn can speak it but not South-Eastern bantu countries

Ok Swahili. If the adoon Kenyans can speak Swahili, which is really a massacre derivation of the arabic language, twisted upside & down, then other africans can speak it too.

 

[Dalmoor]

Ok Swahili. If the adoon Kenyans can speak Swahili, which is really a massacre derivation of the arabic language, twisted upside & down, then other africans can speak it too.

Hell yeah. It only needs learning process. Maybe the accents can differ due to which region tho

 

[Basra]

Hell yeah. It only needs learning process. Maybe the accents can differ due to which region tho

 

[BankaTuyo]

wahili deserves more respect as a pure Bantu language

Swahili is not pure man... it is the definition of a mix language.

 

[Basra]

Swahili is not pure man... it is the definition of a mix language.

Habashi ethipian??? Amharic?

 

[Dalmoor]

Habashi ethipian??? Amharic?

Arabic and Eastern bantu language that happened/formed during slavery, I guess

 

[BankaTuyo]

It only needs learning process

a steep learning curve and a pure torture for our Maay and many southern brethren as they can't pronounce ع or ح

 

[Dalmoor]

a steep learning curve and a pure torture for our Maay and many southern brethren as they can't pronounce ع or ح

They have dhib wallahi due to their carab adeeg