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How do people greet each other in kenya,africa and how do they part? |
Travel Info How do people greet each other in kenya,africa and how do they part? Travel Tips "Jumbo" means hello in Swahili. But, almost everyone knows the English word "hello" Others It depends on who you are talking to, and the circumstances. Kiswahili is the most common language, though english is taught in schools, so most people who has been to school will know at least some english. Also you can learn the local ethnic group's greetin too, if you are in a specific area. The basic swahili greeting I used while there was "Habari" or "Habari gani", which means "what's the news" (sort of like what's up or how's it going). You can also use "Habari yako" to indicate more respect, or "habari yenu" when greeting more than one person, and other variants for time of day (see source). The usal answer to this is "mzuri", meaning good, with many possible variations like "nzuri" (beautiful/wonderful), etc. If you use one of these it will show a little more than just saying "jambo", which means hello, but is only used by tourists - as well as certain swahili speakers (mainly in Uganda I believe), who usually use a more advanced variants (hamjambo, hujambo, etc. The basic goodbye is "kwaheri", or "kwaherini" if talking to more than one person. http://www.pbs.org/wonders/episodes/epi2... The greeting is "Hujambo" and the reply "Sijambo. You then say: "Habari gani?" (how are you) and the inevitable reply is "Nzuri". If the other person is older, or if you want to treat them with respect, you may address them as "Mzee" (muzzay) after the greeting. If you want to sympathise with someone who has a pile of work to do, you could try "Pole kwa kaazi" (sorry about all the work. The plural would be "poleni". "Pole"/"poleni" is a useful word expressing sympathy for anything you could think of. Goodbye is "Kwaheri". This site actually tells you what you need to know. http://www.linguistics.uiuc.edu/swahili/... you can say 'sasa' and then they might say 'feet', that means how are you and good or habari yako, how's life i forget how to say by but to say goodnight say 'lala salama' "jambo " is the easy say for stranger and visitor is swahili word and common |
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