Are there any people from Kenya? or Speak Swahili?
I just came back from Kenya and it was insanely amazing. My dads side of the family is Kenyan they came there a long time ago when portuguese and Italians migrated to Malindi, my grandparents speak broken Italian and Swahili, My moms side of the family is portuguese from Mozambique and cape verde. I noticed that alot of Kenyan blacks from the Inland speak swahili but it sounds african, but when the blacks in the coast speak Swahili it sounds more arabic and more spanish/portuguese. Is it just a different dialect or is it a differnt language? when my dad says something in Swahili i can understand it but when my grandparents say something it sounds like a whole differnt language.
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It has to do with migration patterns. Swahili is a mix of several languages, English, Arabic, Portuguese etc… on the coast there has been more Arabic and Portuguese influence over the years since it is an easy place to port, you can see that influence in coastal Swahili dialects, however, the more inland you go, the less contact they have had with Arabs and Portuguese so the language is influenced by different groups of people from the inland. So that is why coastal Swahili and interior swahili sound different. btw according to Tanzanians, nobody in Kenya knows how to speak proper Swahili.
personally it hink because its on a coast, the people have a very different way of speaking swahili, i mean because its in africa, it will have an african sound to it, and the people ont he coast meet alot of people from other countries and automatically pick up words, and pronounciation from them