How close are Urdu and Arabic? The languages belong to two different family groups but the Urdu language contains many Arabic originating words. In this episode, Meena, an Arabic speaker from Iraq, and Ayesha, an Urdu speaker from Pakistan, challenge each other with a list of words and sentences.

Modern Standard Urdu is a Persianized and standardised register language of the Hindustani language. It is the official national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. In India, it is one of the official languages recognized in the Constitution of India, having official status in the five states of Jammu and Kashmir, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand, as well as the national capital territory of Delhi. For centuries prior to the British colonization, Persian was widely used as a second language in the Indian subcontinent and has had a huge impact on the languages of the region.

Arabic is a Central Semitic language and the official language of Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Arabic is also the liturgical language of Islam.

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Swahili is a Bantu language native to the east coast of Africa, primarily in Tanzania, Kenya, Comoros, Mayotte, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Bajuni Islands of Somalia, northern Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, and Madagascar. Despite belonging to different language family groups, Swahili and Arabic share a lot of common words. While the core of the Swahili vocabulary comes from the native Bantu language family, it contains many words derived from Arabic, aside from the terms which are related to religion.

In this video, we compare some of the common words between Swahili (Kiswahili) and Arabic (العربية) with Abdilahi and Nagib Munir, Swahili speakers from Tanzania and Kenya, respectively, and Hassan and Mohammad, Arabic speakers from Saudi Arabia.

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Arabic is a Central Semitic language and has official/national status Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, SADR, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

Swahili is part of the Sabaki branch of the Bantu languages, which also includes Ilwana (Malakote), Pokomo, Mijikenda, Comorian, , and Mwani. Much of Swahili’s Bantu vocabulary has cognates in the Pokomo, Taita, and Mijikenda languages. Aside from Arabic, Swahili also contains words from other languages such as Persian, Hindustani (Urdu / Hindi), Portuguese, and Malagasy.

In this video, we show you the way to pronounce each Arabic letter explaining the sounds that non-native speakers find difficult to distinguish.

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