₦airaland Forum

Pidggin:
Hello, i commend your effort on exporting your language. Good thing some poeple like me are interested, but while you are teaching us your language I hope you are also making effort to learn ours, I have not seen any of your monikers in our language threads.

I am Nigerian. Its quite uneducated to state that Kiswahili is the language of Kenya or Tanzania. Basic research will show that Kiswahili is a Bantu language which is a branch of the Niger-Congo language family. There is no ethnic group that lays claim to Kiswahili; it is simply the language of the African people. This is in sharp contrast to, for example, Yoruba or Igbo which--despite being members of the Niger-Congo language family--is strictly the language of the Yoruba/Igbo people. PKJAG, as a teacher (and might I add a superb one) you need to educate more Africans who are interested in [/i]our[i] language on the African origins and that it is not restricted to a specific ethnic group like nearly all indigenous African languages are. When better educated, I have no doubt that all Africans will seek to learn Kiswahili for purposes of greater unity, rather than European colonial languages. Asante sana!!