I really enjoyed finding out about this fascinating language. I hope you like it as much as I do.

@user-hl9my4if5u

10 ай бұрын

i certainly did ! - i wish you could teach it to us !!!

I am a wolof, and I appreciate your explanations. You explained the difference between "Téere bi laa jàng" and "Damaa jàng téere bi", the first one focusing on the book, and the other, on the person speaking. Very interesting even to a wolof native speaker.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it, Musaa.

Wolof is linguistically rich. I love it

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

It is indeed.

Fascinating language. Sometimes it sounds somewhat like Arabic, but softer. I listen to a lot of mbalax music and other Senegalese music so I hear how it sounds through the music, but also have just listened to it spoken.

@alywadd1605

Жыл бұрын

Normal. They were in contact with Arabs . Hence some words borrowed from Arabic. Not forgeting islam which is from Arab People

Man ab Sénégalais laa sama làkk mooy Wolof. 😍😍😍

@limsadiane

2 жыл бұрын

Man ab Sa-senegal laa, samaw làkk mooy Wolof. 😊

@Mansa_Musa_al_Malik

2 жыл бұрын

@@limsadiane Samap lakk

Ñoo ngilay jaajëfël si vidéo bu am solo bi

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Amul sóló

Please, can you do research on the Similarities between the Dinka and the Wollof? I am a Dinka and these people have huge similarities with us. I would like a history to carry out research about these similarities and trace the Origin of these tribes.

Whow... a Genius... with a british sense of humour.... beeindruckend!!!!

Its my native language Wolof It is perfectly explained i did learn something too thank you Jereujeuf 😊🙏🏽

I'm absolutely love your videos ! You should do fulani next ! The nomadic nature of its speakers makes it a very interesting language

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip. I’ll look into that.

@bclmqd

3 жыл бұрын

Utterly fascinating! I'd personally refuse to feed you unless you produced at least one vid a week but that's illegal apparently! A similar vid on Chinese languages/ dialects (l know! I know!)? Japanese? ChiChewa? Jersey (Norman) French? Really love the humour ...

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

3 жыл бұрын

Why thank you Brian. Some great ideas, apart from the thing about withholding food!

Jërëjëf am na solo yaa baax rekk ❤️❤️❤️

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Amul sóló

Superbe. Toute langue est une richesse universelle qu'il faut conserver, enrichir, promouvoir et enseigner

@ousmanegueye6828

2 жыл бұрын

Chaque langue contient des valeurs que nulle autre ne detienne

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Merci Ousmane. Vous avez complètement raison sur la richesse des langues.

Wow! Loved this one Dave. The intricacies of the Wolof language are truly fascinating. It's mind-blowing how different languages vary so much in really subtle ways. Can't wait for the next one!

Another linguist touches on the Wolof language on YT, and you both emphasise how complex and intriguing the Wolof language is. I'm glad you briefly mentioned Polynesian languages, as this is my interest, and indeed part of my heritage. Cheers

I appreciate your work about my language Wolof. I'll be back to mention something you didn't that make our language so wonderful.

Wàllay sunu làkk wi dafa riche Wolof xaw ma lu sunu ay ñjiit di xaar ngir def ko la Senegal officielle

Interesting to learn about African languages especially Wolof. Thank you for sharing this video. I’m from London but I’m ethnically Ghanaian. You should do a video on the Akan language and people don’t much about our language because it’s so popular. The dialects of the Akan include Asante Twi, Fante (Ghana) and Boaule, Agni (Ivory Coast).

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Hi. Thank you. Yes, Akan languages have about 10 million speakers. I’d like to know more about them. Maybe some day.

Excellent video!!❤

Oooh thank you @Dave for that. It’s my mother tongue but you explain it better than me🙈😅. Thx again

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome 😊 It's a wonderful language.

As a wolof speaker this is class is actually the best I've ever seen

We are so happy for you , wolof is our rich language

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Very rich indeed:

Maestro Dave que bueno poder ver nuevo video...!! Muy interesante... Saludos desde México!

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

3 жыл бұрын

Gracias Alejandro. Me alegra que te haya gustado. Saludos desde California.

Wow 🤩 wonderful 🥰 Our great greetings dear prof since Sénégal 🇸🇳

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😃

Thanks you 🇸🇳 🇬🇲 😘

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure.

you can do this all day, cant you? id pay money pay money to see this live

Loved the video. The explanation is simple and very clear.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

The word 'hippy' is Wolof and it means to be 'in the know' or 'woke' Black Americans have been using the word hippy decades before it was used during the sixties, another African word is 'mojo' a bag which the shaman kept his magical items, Jumbo is also African actually it means elephant, the word simba was used incorrectly in the Lion King it actual means lion.UK

@sareeyemanusqaame8723

3 жыл бұрын

There’s no such thing as “African word” that claim is extremely ignorant and embarrassing!!

@Jenjen-qc5eq

3 жыл бұрын

@@sareeyemanusqaame8723 How the hell can there be no such thing as an African word when Africa has two thousand languages? your reductiveness is limitless, joker. UK

@digitallocations1423

2 жыл бұрын

@@sareeyemanusqaame8723 English is incorporating words from other languages all the time because it has many non native speakers. 🙄

@benji272

2 жыл бұрын

@@sareeyemanusqaame8723 I think they mean all words loaned in from any african language, not from the "african langauge"

Interessting your video is juste amusing. Think you for doing this, for our mather tongue language. I ve learn a lot.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, Cheikhouna. So glad you enjoyed it.

Perfekt ....

I lake it. I Live in Sénégal

Very nice explanation, so interesting! Trying to learn it myself atm, as I'm currently in the Gambia :)

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

Жыл бұрын

That you! Glad you enjoyed it. Wishing you every success with learning Wolof - let me know how you get on.

Thank you verry mutch for the langue wolof❤️❤️

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome Khalifa.

Jërëjef sëriñ bi!!!

You’re an absolute gem

Great video and very interesting.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nick.

Jaajëf waay jàmbaar.

Jërëjëf amna solo lool

46% wolof in senegal and 18% in Gambia. So it means about 7.2 in senegal and gambia around 300 000 wolofs.

Amazing video! Will you do some more as there isn't that much available on studying Wolof?

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Hi. So glad you like it. I don’t know that much more about Wolof myself but I’ll see where I can go with your idea.

Wow nice explanation diadief👏

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

My language!

Thx

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Any time

🙏

Very interesting

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

So interesting

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

9 күн бұрын

Thank you! Glad you thought so.

Superbe video. Dieureudieuf

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Amul sóló

@Mansa_Musa_al_Malik

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages Wow very nice. Nioko bokk

Thanks

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome

Jërëjëf

Wolof rekk ❤❤❤

Interesting

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

17 күн бұрын

Glad you like it.

It’s very easy

Can you please, make One of Dinka language

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Thank for the suggestion. I’ll see what I can do.

@tamrasg6960

Жыл бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages thank, you

Wolof is nice

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

It is indeed.

man jangakat laa

Amna solo!

Am i mistaken in seeing AAVE has adopted some of wolof's features into it's overall structure?

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Anthony. That wouldn't be surprising, since many of the people kidnapped from Africa and brought to the US were from Wolof-speaking regions. Do you have any specific features in mind?

@ANTSEMUT1

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages how they structure their tenses and the sack of potatoes thing you mentioned.

Wolof sant yàlla

I think I'll stick with learning Swahili after seeing that pronoun system 😮

Interesting. I found it strange when I learned that Japanese adjectives have tense.

good job from a white guy on such a topic

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Mwakio.

Mbaa jàmm rekk nga am ? Wolof moo neex! lu la dugal ci lii ngay def? Foo ko jàngee?

jerejeuf

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

Amul sóló

Do Nguni languages next

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into those. What's your favourite feature of the Nguni languages?

@lmc4355

3 жыл бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages Our unique phonemes such as the click consonants c, q, x, gc, gq, gx as well as hl, dl, rh. Or the dual pronunciations of some letters such as k, kh, b, bh, p, ph, t, th. Our consonant clusters like in the words Mnguni or mntwana. The tonal differences of vowels which unfortunately they haven't distinguished with accent symbols but we can hear the difference for example the prefix U referring to you and U referring to he/she are pronounced differently. The differences between Swati and Zulu almost seem intentional. Where Zulu has Z Swati has t, where Zulu has th Swati has ts, where Zulu has d Swati has dz, so often you'll hear other Nguni people say Swati sounds like a child speaking Zulu. The clan poetry izithakazelo/tinanatelo/iziduko that every Nguni surname has. The way we distinguish family members compared to English such as we have a seperate word for fathers sister ubabakazi and fathers older brother babomkhulu and younger brother babomncane, or mothers brother umalume and mothers older sister mamkhulu and younger sister mamncane. Or mothers nieces and nephews as well as fathers sisters kids are called cousins omzala but dads brothers children are called mfo (brother) and dade(sister). This is the case with many family titles. Like my in laws/wife's parents are called umkhwe (father in law) umkhwekazi(mother in law) but my wife would call her in laws/my parents mamezala(mother in law) babazala (father in law). Or I call my father ubaba, but when I speak of your father I say uyihlo, when I speak of someone (their/he/she's) father I say uyise and mother it's umama, unyoko, unina respectively.

@GwazaJuse

2 жыл бұрын

@LMC mntwana and mnguni don't have consonant clusters though. The m in each case is a syllabic nasal and the n is a prenasalisation of the letter that follows. It's therefore a single syllabic consonant (m) followed by another single consonant that is prenasalised. The only real clusters we have are sonorant consonants after stops, such as the ndrondroza feature, as in the IsiMpondo or IsiXesibe words ndriyahamba or inkrwenkrwe. This is still only a two segment cluster in each case, because again it's prenasalisation and in the second case it is labialisation, not a full consonant. But anyway it would be nice for Mr Huxtable (whose videos I absolutely love) to do our Nguni/Mbo languages (remember that SiSwati is actually a Mbo language in terms of people group, not "Nguni", even though Linguistic typology used the word "Nguni". Similarly I think we should not use the term "Bantu" but rather call these the Ntu languages, as "Bantu" implies people not languages and is also a racist term from apartheid).

@lmc4355

2 жыл бұрын

@@GwazaJuse lm not trained in linguistics so I'm not familiar with any specific jargon. By consonant cluster I meant that it's a group of consonants following each other which non African people struggle to pronounce. Instead of saying Mnguni they say Manguni or umnyango they say umanyango. Also Nguni from what I know is the accepted term to refer to our language family and I think it's because all Nguni tribes trace their origin to an ancestor or king named Mnguni. Terms like umuMbo, iLala, iNtungwa etc. are historical subdivisions of Nguni peoples before the formation of the modern nations and so from what I understand it is more to do with individual surnames for example Mkhize which is a Zulu surname is historically Mbo but Bhengu another Zulu surname is historically Lala. They are all still Nguni peoples as they speak similar languages. You mentioned another interesting feature of Nguni language family. Some of the languages like isiMpondo and siNdebele have the ndrondroza feature so Indoda becomes indroda and some Swati have kutsefula so Indoda becomes indvodza.

@GwazaJuse

2 жыл бұрын

@@lmc4355 Mhlonishwa, abaMbo/amaLala/amaThonga are not Nguni at all and we do not trace any lineage to some ancestor called "Mnguni" this is a myth. "Nguni" is simply an old term likely referring to peoples that came down to the coastal region from the upland territories, whereas abaMbo/amaLala/amaThonga refers to the inhabitants of the lowland coastal terrain prior to this. Please do not call us Nguni we are not Nguni, and as a Mkhize person I can tell you we are also not Zulu, we are abaseMbo/amaLala who at one point were indeed part of the Zulu kingdom through tribute to iLembe (Note to Mr Huxtable: "iLembe" is a formal praise name for the renowned king iSilo uShaka kaSenzangakhona, to be clear), but when Dingane came to power he assassinated Zihlandlo and this broke off our ties with the Zulu polity. We are neither Zulu nor Nguni and most nations of the region are not Nguni at all. For example, EmaSwati are led by the Ngwane houses descended from Dlamini (like most AbaMbo nations) and so are therefore considered AbaMbo since they have an eastern origin - they are originally coastal plain peoples. The same goes for AmaNdebele (those of Musi, NOT AbaThwakazi of Zimbabwe who are AmaNtungwa), AbaThembu, AmaMpondo+AmaMpondomise+AmaXesibe, AmaZizi, AmaBhele, AmaBhaca, AmaHlangwini, EbaPhuthi, and of course the largest of all, AmaHlubi, as well as all other clans and nations referred to as amaLala or amaThonga, such as the enormous Tembe kingdom that straddles South Africa and Mozambique (they speak SiThonga on the RSA side and XiRhonga on the Moz side, as they are the people of Mabhudu/Maputru, from whence the city of Maputo gets its name). NONE of these that I have mentioned are Nguni peoples, because their ruling lineages do not historically come from upland regions. They speak many different languages, most of which are called "Nguni Languages" according to the standard naming conventions of Linguistic Typology, but these are not Nguni people at all. Please do not call us Nguni people we actively distinguish ourselves from AbeNguni in our clan praises and cultural history. For example, in our praises as ImiKhize (AbaseMbo) we say "Sibiside esimajembelezana, owayephandla waphandla ABENGUNI bavungama". You can see here that we construe our ancestor Sibiside (who by the way is also the ancestor of AmaMpondo etc) in counterposition to Nguni people who he is said to have astonished. Further on in our praises it is said "Nina MALALA amahle", which asserts again that abaMbo were also known as AmaLala and this as it happens was a counterposition to Ntungwa people, which, like Nguni folks were also uplanders, as is evidenced by the origin of the name from the intungwa thatching grass which grows at higher altitudes. Notably the ilala palm that is also sewn together as a fabrication material by contrast grows at LOW altitudes. We are "amaLala" people of eMbo, meaning the coastal region (what is today the eastern side of the province of "KZN") and NOT Nguni people at all. Nguni people are those that were said to descend from the mountains along the river, in the process known as UKWEHLA KWESILULU. I believe that the term "Nguni languages" is therefore inappropriate and should be substituted for the term "eMbo-Nguni languages". By the way: the Tsefula, Tekela, Ndrondroza, and Yeyeza features are the original speech styles of the eMbo or coastal region, and even iLembe used to speak like that, in the SiLala fashion. I thank you, futshi gibogiye 🙏

Toubab bi dagna wolof bubaghe hhhhh

Fascinating grammar, great explanation. With so much added meaning to the pronouns, I’d almost want to call those words auxiliary verb forms or adverbs. That is, they don’t replace nouns in the same way a pronoun typically does. Not wanting to be Eurocentric here! Similar linguistic thought, for example, claims that Japanese has no pronouns, only nouns, as they are grammatically treated the same.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Pierce. I'm sure there are other analyses for this. Whatever they are, the are definitely 'personal'. I looked at words for I, and briefly listed those for he/she/it. The full range also exists of 2nd per sing and pl and 3rd per pl.

Am na soolo

Wolof spelled backwards is foloW... er... um... follow. Right?

Please if you have a twitter account here I am also interested in languages twitter.com/dictionaric thanks ! Have you got some vocabulary to share with me concerning BAWLE ? BAOULÉ ?

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

2 жыл бұрын

No vocab to share unfortunately, but I now follow you on Twitter.

@PatrickJouannes

2 жыл бұрын

@@DaveHuxtableLanguages okay ! nice !

Hello bae

That must be a problem for woke Wolof-o-phones. Howe do you fit all those pronouns in your Twitter bio?

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

7 ай бұрын

Must be tough.

@mddi1420

4 ай бұрын

easy work there is no woke bs in Senegal and the language is neutral gender

@benthejrporter

4 ай бұрын

@@mddi1420 They're lucky! It's not unexpected though, I've noticed this in many other parts of Africa.

I'll plus verb. There, I'll is another pronoun that indicates person and tense. I'd seen and I've seen. Two pronouns that indicate different tenses but use the same verb. If i was creating a new language, I did, i was, i will i do I dont, i might etc would all contract into a single word plus the verb. No need for past particples or gerund. Very very logical. And obviously there'd be a we meaning me and you, we meaning me, you and someone else and we meaning me and someone else excluding you. Oh and and drop "it" and articles. Seems pointless. Ive point doncha think? I'd drop apostrophes too. Misuse really bug's me. Has done since the 70's.

@DaveHuxtableLanguages

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing how you'd put the world to rights. I think you may be right about apostrophes - most of the rules were made up by the Victorians to prove how hedumicated they were.