Swahili, Africa's answer to a unified continent? [This is Culture]
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- The news about the incorporation of the Swahili language into the South African school curriculum continues to spark mixed reactions from all over the continent. Some believe it is a good idea while others do not think it will have any impact on the continent.
The announcement came a few weeks after leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters party, Julius Malema, called for the adoption of a common language in Africa, hinting at Swahili being that language.
According to him, a language…
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This is more than just about South Africa. Just hearing this makes me plan to study the language and encourage my daughter here in America. This is wonderful news! One Love and Language...
Hey I'm curious. Have you begun to study the language?
Nzuri Sana!!! 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿💯💯💯
Me too!
Madam... don't give those murderous Arabs more shine. It's slightly influenced by them. But its more influenced by local tribes from East Africa.
#FACT
😂😂😂
Africans should learn Swahili around the world.
O'Bembe` Already learning it and I’m a Black American. Maybe KiSwahili can help bridge some of gaps between Africans and us in the Diaspora as well.
People speaking the same language really connect beyond measure..it's true, speaking kiswahili would definitely guarantee unity to all our people from around the world...bless up!!
It’s the main language that we use as a reference in the black community in the US for years so this is really good news to hear.
Agreed, Our Afro Diaspora must learn Kiswahili.
Umoja wa Afrika
Congratulations , Africa is moving forward, Chiness must learn also Swaili once they are in Africa
True!
Yes, that's how you dominate the world by spreading your customs.
We have few who speak swahili. Swahili is also taught in American and some parts of Europe universities
We don't need Chinese to learn they can do if they wish. One thing I know is Africa will rise again
Swahili has like a handful of Arabic words.. maybe like 10 or so. That doesn’t make it Arabic
Correct
Don't mind her
Wrong, the word Swahili itself is actually Arabic. Sahil means coast, the plural form is Sawahil. Ki Swahili is Arabic for " The Language of the Coasts".
@@choppacal4899 You are so right! I've been trying to make this point, but it seems some people are bent on claiming Swahili is 100% Bantu. No it is not. It is a mixer of Bantu languages, and Arabic.
@@danieljones2048 English also has a lot of lone words borrowed from other languages but that doesn't make it any less English, (having LatinLatin words won't make it Latin and having French words won't make it French) same with Swahili having some Arabic lone words doesn't make it Arabic, it's a Bantu language.
Plenty of languages around the world have borrowed words from other languages, the Japanese language has some English words in it but that doesn't make it any less Japanese.
Nimekupenda presenter....
Ahsante sana,kutoka Lusaka Zambia
As a Scotsman in Kirriemuir I agree. I speak Kiswahili and am delighted when I find other speakers here. I have met two so far and have not even looked.
The Swahili language's spoken by many countries in Africa. Swahili's also a language of the business.
Malema julius for the presdent of Afrika..viva juju !
Swahili is of Bantu origin,if you are Bantu you can already understand 60% of Swahili without learning example Bantu -means people
In Swahili-watu
@Ishmael Tv do you have citation for your comment? I want to learn it.
I'd suppose all languages have some African origin
Yesss
@Ishmael Tv totally mistaken... Bantu is a word .....
So common in all our Bantu land
@Ishmael Tv ....
Real Identify..... Check the DNA trace back to the first human.....
Check mitochondrial Eve .
If you at all you ever check DNA for your kids.....Just know the same process traced us to the first homosapiens..
Optional, I think that's not enough it should be made compulsory
People have no idea how importance the language is,
Please stop just repeating what arabs claim.
Arabic comes from Africans just like all Semitic languages.
Swahili is an african language.
FACT!
Yes, I saw a video of Ivan Van Sertima the other day here on YT.
He said Arabic script was invented when Arabia was completely Black, and it was invented by an African. czcams.com/video/ytwVzJXY7zE/video.html
To a reporter: its good to report something after a thorough research, arabic form a small % of swahili, bantu language constitute the large proportion of the language plus some portuguese, english etc vocabularies borrowed. Its a disgrace to say developed from Arabic
its true swahili is mixed of bantu language Arabic and portugeese im from eastern africa its my language
I agree, let her look at this: czcams.com/video/1NceCl8KPlM/video.html
Swahili is essentially Bantu in grammar and structure. Derived from the Sabaki languages and Mijikenda groups. The Arab input are loanwords. They are not the only ones, Hindi, Portuguese, English and more.
You are correct comrade, uko Sawa kabisa rafiki
A wonderful suggestion!
What impacts did english, french, portugese, spanish have in africa in a positive matters after 60 years of independance? How can we as black africans can continue to promote others races cultures & languages & neglect our own languages.
I think swhahili is the way to go in order to get rid of colonial languages in africa.
Viva Africa!!! One language Is a good policy to UNITE Africa.
Congrats Yemi Alade,for singing in Kiswahili,teach the Nigerians the language.
100% support this.. It should adopted by all African countries
The ending there made me so happy. Great job.
Thank you but you are wrong. Kiswahili only borrowed few loan words from Arabic it is originally a Bantu language. Kiswahili borrows even from even english for example Computer =
Kompyuta. But the language is unaffected and authentically remains Bantu.
So surely in the next 100 years you will not say it was originally a language from Europe lol. Thanks again.
Please Kiswahili is too old to suggest that it borrowed / loan words from Arabs and more strangely English. When Arabs came to the coast of east Africa, they couldn't understand the languages of the East Africans they were interacting with. But they had to communicate, so they had to communicate with mainly the Bantu right away from Congo to the coast of east Africa. The traces of Arabic in Kiswahili was just an unintended consequences of interacting with the mainly Bantu people. Sometimes we talk as if millions of Arabs swarmed the coast of east Africa. No, they were just few hundreds or a few thousands. But they had to communicate. Very few Africans heard about a "computer in the 70's. So, Kompyuta is just recent....but no language is immune to change. Even English is keeps changing as people continue to interact......
I believe Computer in Swahili is tarakilishi.
Swahili is an African bantu language
Im proud of yall from America
Absolutely! My family and I are of the diaspora (ughaibuni) and we have begun learning on our own as of 3 months ago. We love the language and are slowly replacing our daily English in our home. (We love our Afrikan Heritage!) Tunapenda Urithi wetu wa Kiafrika!
Ubuntu Ma'at Hotep Ase'🙏🏿
Ubarikiwe saana ndugu au Dada
Ngugu za Amonra ziwe nanyi na Maat iwaongoze muweze kumwona bwana hotep
Swahili is gaining popularity
Kiswahili is totally an African language with a few borrowed words in German (shule, skul), Hindi(Tamasha, Chai) Portuguese (pesa, leso, Meza), English, Arabic(Salaam) and Persian(Farsi). It's such a lovely and unifying language. Let us all learn it.
Never realized it was such a lovely sounding language!
Some people even claim is the most romantic language in eastern africa, especially when spoken by coastal Tribes of Tanzania or people from Mombasa in Kenya
Wrong wrong wrong...Swahili is not an Arab language at all!! Please stop spreading this falsehood. Swahili is an African language that has a minute percentage of Arabic influence as it does have others as well. Please correct this misstatement.
i have been telling people that arabs influence in kiswahili language is merely 20% but 80% is all bantu ....i cant imagine even arabs brainwashed us and made us believe that kiswahili language originated from them
it came from a Kenyan Bantu called Kingozi. Arabs named the Ngozi people sawahil, meaning the Waswahili(coast people)
Thanks for correcting me. I take back what I said that, it a mixture of Bantu and Arabic language while it only has a few borrowed Arabic words among others. It mostly a Bantu language.😱
@@Tugalukeni it's entirely Bantu. Calling it Arabic is selling every Bantu language in Africa to Arabs. A bantu can easily understand and speak Kiswahili without even going to School
@@duncanocharo5171 no arabs ever say that swahili come from them lol
Thats the other african people who are too close minded and tribalist who searched excuse for not learning swahili, and a lot of non educated african people just repeated that
I hate when they say swahili came from arabs blah blah🙄
Me too, yet it was there long before those foreigners showed up.
Kiswahili is the language.
Swahili are the people.
I hope African Americans will be interested in learning as well... It will help in bringing them closer to their roots. Just a thought.
@Le Colosse facts
Mimi ni Marekani Mfrika, Nimeanza kujifunza Kiswahili katika 2018 na bado jifunza ya... Amani! 💪🏿💯
@@demondburgess7514 HONGERA...HILO NI JAMBO LA KUFURAHIA!
Supported by Nigerians
Bethrand Ikechukwu you speak for all Nigerians?
For sure, I know my people and my people knows me
@@bethrandikechukwu3595 i don't know you. Who are you?
Tee eL don't mind that one
@@maryandrew3324 some people may have this false concern that adopting Kiswahili would most likely endanger their own native languages. This is entirely wrong as I'm Kenyan and an average East African, can and do speak at least 2 or 3 languages apart from Kiswahili... Kiswahili should be spread out to every African in order to foster our own unity or at least increase our rate of interaction...Gosh wish I would say this in Kiswahili, English is not my 'mouth'! 😂😂😂
Kiswahili will be the American African language don't call us African American... We are not Americans we are Africans in America
Swahili is 100% Bantu language stop that myth from now. All the way from Congo DR kutokeya Congo
You are wrong. Swahili is NOT 100% Bantu. It is foolish to even say so because the name of the language itself is an Arabic word. 'Swahili' means costal region in Arabic. Your comment demonstrates an ignorance of the language.
@@danieljones2048 it is 💯 Bantu
Wacha kutudanganya hapa na labda hujuwi kuongea Swahili
@@danieljones2048 By saying 100% he means its grammatical structure. Of course, as one of the most widely spoken languages in the world it must have loan words in its vocabulary otherwise it would die the same way Latin died. A language grows faster by borrowing from other cultures it comes into contact with. Naturally, Swahili has loan words from Arabic, Persian, Hindi, Portuguese, English, German, French. In fact even the English language is heavily influenced by Latin and Greek to a greater extent and French and German to lesser extent.
@@danieljones2048 the Arabic language comes from Africa in the Ethiopian region from what I heard and read
@@Dennis_2026 Si lazima nijuwe kuzungumza Kiswahili ili nijue kwamba neno Swahili ni neno la kiarabu linamaanisha ufuo wa bahari. Kadhalika lugha (an arabic word meaning language) ya Kiswahili in maneno ya Kiarabu, Kireno, Kihindi, n.k. In short, anyone who has studied the roots of Swahili will know it is not entirely Bantu.
It's time we leave the colonial languages. Bless Africa
Mimi ni Mzanzibari nimefurahi sana kuskia kiswahili kiwe lugha ya Taifa Africa yote asanteni
This is a great injustice to my Language Kiswahili, it never originated from any interactions with the Arabs. Kiswahili originated from from a bantu language called KINGOZI in the coastal Islands of Lamu Kenya (Kingozi is still spoken by the members of the Pokomo tribe to date). The only role that the Arabs played is in the spread of the language to the rest of the region as they adopted it as the language of trade. The first interaction between Arabs and bantu Africans was with the wangozi people by a Morrocan explorer called Ibn Battuta on his way from Mecca who named them 'Sahels' meaning - people living along the Coast. It is from that the name of Language is today called Swahili and the original speakers Swahilis. Any Kiswahili speaker will testify that there are very few Arabic borrowed words in Kiswahili and even those few ones are mostly for religious purposes by Muslims, you will also find Portuguese and Indian borrowed words being that it was the Language of trade back then. But Muslim scholars are always trying to push this narrative that somehow Kiswahili just sprouted from nowhere and insisting on Arabs being somehow natives of the language. Well, how is it that Arabs themselves can't understand even 5% of Kiswahili if at all there is any connection?? Also, why is it that nearly all the other neighboring bantu related languages e.g Mijikenda, Pokomo even Comorians and Mayotte can understand Kiswahili up to around 50%? Shouldn't the Arabic be the closest language to Kiswahili then? I mean Afrikaans can understand some Dutch right?? So, why is it any different when it comes to Kiswahili?
True, I don't know why people keep on claiming this lie.
Swahili is the official language of africa
hongera,kiswahili chako, ni sanifu.
South Africa's Sho Madjozi is fluent in both Swahili and she got. So I think.
I am one proud native swahili from mombasa kenya.
" السلام عليكم " ! MASHALLAH, MASHALLAH, MASHALLAH !!! !!! !
One Afrika! Swahili is an African language, its not influenced or taken from Arabic nor by Arabs.
All african countries must to introduce Swahili language in their local schools
Swahili is maybe 10 percent Arabic the larger part is Bantu, some tiny percent English and other language
The Bantu population are located primarily in West and South Africa but as a lingua franca of East Africa enriched with Arabic spoken from North Africa it has good credentials to be a language for the whole continent. Though it could do with its own script!
I'm thinking about moving to Senegal or Rwanda but I'm leaning toward Rwanda because I want my kids to learn swahili.
I am definitely studying Kiswahili
If swahili is made an African language i can see by 2100 more than 1/3 of the world will be talking swahili that's making it an international lunguage ask me why because by 2100 Africa population will be about 40% of the world population that's making the swahili language spoken by most people and widely spread. Karibuni tubonge kwa kiswahili waafrika wote.
Yes of course it's good we afrikan to stop learning this bested language we must do it fast
Jambo karibu tusome Kiswahili
I Think it is a good idea .. Regards from Egypt
If you're bantu, you need 10 lessons to understand, speak, read and write Swahili.
@Mwaniki Mwaniki but in the past the script was written in arabic, so usishangae ukisikia sisi wacoasti tukisema twaeza badala ya tunaweza, since the the letter ط (twa) was in use back then
@Mwaniki Mwaniki karibu
Asante sana Bhati Linet nahayo ulio Tu andalia.
Swahili forAfrica, one up 👆
Iam not interested in Swahili,being pushed down my throat. I have been able to communicate effectively in english with the rest of the Africans.
Your Swahili is amazing, very accurate
Swahili must be the official language of Afrika no other Afrikan languages come close 2 it and its easy 2 learn and a good percentage of Afrikans already speak it.
@Heru Behudety yes very easy google will help u for translations if u have nobody right now like Habari means hello or how r u and u respond Muzuri which means am good.
asante sanaa
I believe that Kiswahili is the language that will unite all of Africa in the near future. It started in the east. It is now moving south and will one day be in the west of Africa. We need to communicate with one another in a common African tongue regardless of where we are from. In the United States it doesn't matter if you live in San Diego California or Portalnd Maine. The ligua Franca is ENGLISH. If other countries can do it, we can too. Let those who are interested work to make Kiswahili the national language of all black people.
Amen , we'll said
If we Inter marry whin africans ourselves then learning swahili Wil b easier b4 kids learning Frm schl already parents at home wl b teaching kids the language.Ama namna ngani?
@@uniceinjehu8557 well said my brother,am studying the language as we speak,,I must admit that I kind of drop of a bit,for two reasons1 they stole my tablet with the swaili language in all it form,and I was a member of kenyalist,but for some reason I can't seem to get the link any more,but I used study at the library and practice at home on kenyalist,too much changes I guess,
West Africa will be Hausa
Egypt just recently adopted Kiswahili as a Co-Official language, so now it's in the North! 💯
I support this idea, Africa unite and it shall start from small efforts as a common language,then open boarders,then eventually have Au presidential elections ,free trade ,free movement,this will bring the stolen glory from Africa
In cost somalia and noth eastern somalia they also speak swaahili easy and nice languages i learn with 3 month no going to school
But most Somalis deny this, I wonder why? They claim only Somali is spoken in Somalia.
I pray Ghana to in cooperate it into our curriculum soonest. Am so sad that African's as big as we are in land size and population, we don't have a brand. Even at PAP meetings they address their brothers as francophones and Anglophone and then they begin to do their colonial masters bidding.
I love the ending made my adrenaline rush
If one is a bantu then one can easily understand kiswahili although there are very few words were derived from Portuguese, hindu, even arabic language due to intermarriage but it is mainly bantu east, central and southern africa. kiswahili is an African language
Kiswahili originates from recorded 13 Bantu dialects (Lahaja za Kibantu) from Bantu tribes that interacted in trade with the Indian ocean coast and came into contact with the Arabs. These "lahaja" included Kingozi (Burundi; that traded leather (ngozi) goods with the coast), Kiptang'ata, Chichifundi and many others I dont remember.these days. And Kiswahili borrowed from not only Arabic, but also German, Portuguese, English and may be Spanish and French (I think the word shamba (a farm) in Kiswahili was borrowed from French's Le champ (Field)! Shule in Kiswahili was borrowed from German's "Schule" .. etc.
Ninampenda Afrika.
Tafadhali hebu kuja pamoja Kama moja ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Tujifunze pamoja hii lugha.let's learn together this language
Yess yesss Mzansi put swahili in your national anthem. You know what i mean. And indeed she finished in style
Kiswahili ndiyo lugha na silaha iliyobaki kutuleta pamoja kama waafrika daima kiswahili kitukuzwe na niwakosoe kiswahili kina idadi ya wazungumzaji milioni 300
Umoja Ni Nguvu
Swahili should be taught not only in Africa but throughout the African diaspora.
Swahili is a bridge language. Upon political unification we'll have to make a comparative study of the best way to establish a national language on the Afrikan continent We're not going to allow the colonial divisions (that we are going to destroy) to interdict the smooth exchange of ideas between Afrikans. We're one people, one aim, one destiny. All forms of colonial impediments to unification must be liquidated.
At the present, Cheikh Anta Diop's suggestions to this in his book, Black Africa, the basis for a federated state provides us with the best option.
The future development of Afrika will depend in part on our actions toward success.
I think all black should do the same to learn this language. It has the power to unit all black across the world even same in USA people are learning so why is it the I sure when its comes to our our people
Wow that's wonderful, hopefully we will finally speak 1 language. I look forward to see other countries follow.
I think Africans should drop the Cfa francs and adopt the Gourde the currency of the first black Republic, also the strongest currency from a black country with the exception of South Africa's Rand. Either choice would be great.
My brother is a process. Seek yee the common language first and all other thinks shall fall in their rightful places. Remember the tower of Babel.
African's inferiority complex is epic. Why do we always have to ascribe anything positive and great to other people, even when we are the authors? HOW DID THIS WOMAN COME TO BELIEVE THAT KISWAHILI IS AN ARABIC DIALECT? Oh my gosh! Just because they say it doesn't make it true.
We need Swahili in Africa Swahili is the best language ever we don't need to Lost Swahili we need Swahili in Africa so it is mix with bantu language and Congo we speak Swahili Burundi they speak Swahili they know Swahili Tanzania they speak Swahili Kenya they speak Swahili why we don't need to learn Swahili in Africa we need to learn Swahili Africa Swahili is the best language in Africa I really like Swahili South Africa many people of them they know Swahili many many countries in Africa they do know Swahili why we don't need to learn Swahili we need Swahili to be the official language of Africa because is better is good language for real so Africa we don't need to Lost Swahili we don't need colonize people's language we need to learn our language why they can't learning are language too we need to be smart Africa Swahili to world if we learn our language we will grow up and Future of technology we don't need to waste at the time for people's language we need to learn our language Africa we need to be smart why they can't learn our language we need to be smart Swahili to the world
The ending was perfect 👌
Arabic has nothing to do with Swahili. Some words are lone words from other languages. Most languages borrow words. English is full of lone words from French, German, Spanish, Arabic ect.
It is african of course, for example of Swahili being a Bantu African language, take for example of a world used in South Africa called “Ubuntu” which literally means “humanism” in Swahili is called “utu “ , you see the commonality there?
Stop misleading Africans. The fact that Kiswahili has Arab words is proof of Africa's accomodative culture. Apart from Kiunguja (Zanzibar dialect) Arab words constitute less than 20% of Swahili vocabulary
Beautiful
HABARI! HABARI! HABARI!
kiswahili is an African language it just incorporates some outside words as for sheng its just a version of kiswahili thats spoken mostly by us younger people with some few changes to the conventional names given to things, money etc although the school version is standardized i can understand Tanzanians and Ugandan Kiswahili well. i think it should be adopted by all African countries as a standard version for all of them.
Yes!
Woow u have spoke it very well Linet,keep it up all the way from Kenya
What a step taken by south African Government! It is a beautiful language. Karibuni tusemesane pamoja.
hiyo iko sawa ...endeleeni vivyo hivyo waafrika wenzangu...MZUNGU AKEMEWE KATIKA JINA LA MAULANA
Mzungu pia ni mtoto wa mungu.
@@lugaritzbrown2250 MZUNGU IS A HYBRID..MIXER OF ORIGINAL HUMAN AND THE BEAST
@@decoloniz_afro your Simply delusional just review what your writing those kind of statements are what makes us Africans behind..... Wrong thinking.
@@lugaritzbrown2250 THE DAY IS COMING WHEN SOMEONE NEED TO TEACH U WHO IS DELUSIONAL....RE.CHECK YOUR ANCESTORS HISTORY AND HYBRID HISTORY THEN COME BACK AND TELL ME WHO IS THE BEAST
@@lugaritzbrown2250 Know your enemies. Afrika ni ya Waafrika
I fully support African to have Swahili as a united language just like the Chinese have Mandarain as a united language. I am a Singaporean Overseas Chinese and can communicate with global Chinese. African should not be like the Indian with more than 50 official languages and yet need to speak Colonial English as a united language. Yes I have faith in African unity and surely one day will be more prosperous than China to present their gift to Jerusalem Temple in the coming future. Surely Africa will be blessed with Swahili as a united language and will become the next economy power.
We can make it happen by teaching it to our babies, and speaking it whenever and wherever we are without fault, shame, or a care... 💯
This is a great idea. 💓💓💓
how similar is kiSwahali to, say isiZulu? Are there similar words? Can they understand each another?
Now if it claims to be originated Frm Arabs. Y are they unable to speak the language ?some of us went there really communication there is a big problem .if English language is a problem there how comes swahili language b easy there for them to claim swahili originated Frm middle east
The omani arabs speak swahili. However swahili is mainly bantu language with loan words from Arabic, Hindi, and portuguese.
Closing style nimeipenda sana
As long as is not a slave masters language bring it here, we don't want to talk and the slave masters listing to my conversation , get rid of slave masters language in Africa, it's a good move for African with swahili, change it to a language who very hard for the slave master to understand.
its so funny and hurting to hear as Tanzanian as Kenya is constantly considered the big advocates of swahili and ignoring Tanzania who are the core of Swahili influence in EA.!!
Obed Mwakalonge U so stupid why is it that u think kiswahili is only for Tanzania? people are trying to let it even go further u here starting complaining of kenyans taking advantage of it let it be bro, if you think you have any other options get up and do it n stop complaining, Am Tanzanian tena mchaga toka moshi and am happy whatever kenyans do for kiswahilli, n let everyone be proud of it without minding how little swahili they speak.
Swahili is a Kenyan language by origin not Tanzanian. The Ngozi people who became the Swahili people are Kenyan not Tanzanians.
@@TheDraftedManoeuvres here again they come kenyans, everything is theirs...Swahil ts for the cost pipo the days before mombasa and ts nearby towns was in Kenya..dig it well u wil find the truth and stop ur exploitative minds..
@@ReachOut3004 Don't be lazy do some research online. seek the Ngozi people and origins of the language you brag to be yours. Swahili was introduced to Tanzania by Oman Arabs coming from coastal Kenya to Zanzibar, during their sultanate headquarters shift
@@TheDraftedManoeuvres who told u dat, kiswahili originated from bantu people as u can see different bantu tribes there words are similar to swahili there is no such thing as omar , you are the one who is razy go study the origin of swahili again and get educated
Swaihili is bantu not arabic language
Good move! Language transmits culture. Most people who speak English unknowingly are into English culture!
1. Most african languages except kiswahili don't have names of things that were not there in the past. Kiswahili on the other hand has a transaltion even on google and facebook meaning even the big technology words present today have their kiswahili translation.
2. Most Bantus will find kiswahili easy as its part bantu, part arabic and part Portuguese,meaning its easy to learn and its "contagious," that is if your neighbouring country speaks it you will find that people in your country will start speaking it too since its easy simple and good on our African tongue.
madam, research before misleading people, swahili 70% is made of bantu local language, and only 25% Arabic, the other % is Portuguese, English other language
Who is selling the idea of Swahili as an African language of unification? .
Did you just say Kiswahili is Arabic?
Research has shown that at least 70% of Kiswahili comes from Bantu languages. If you are a Bantu speaker, say a Bemba speaker in Zambia, you will easily relate Bemba to Kiswahili because most of the vocabularies you will hear in Kiswahili will be very similar to those in Bemba.
Plus, the structure is also the same. For example, in Bantu languages, Kiswahili included, the adjective comes after a noun, as opposed to English, for example, where the adjective precedes the noun. The word "day" is "siku" in Kiswahili, and "good" is "nzuri". To say "good day" one would say "siku nzuri" which when directly translated into English would read "day good". If you speak a Bantu language, you will agree this is true in your language too.
The only truth is, among the foreign languages Kiswahili borrows from, Arabic takes the lead. Some other languages are English, German, Portuguese and Indian. Otherwise Kiswahili was being spoken along the coast of East Africa long before Arabs came there hundreds of years ago.
I think it should be compulsory.