Polyglot Pal's video: 20 Words: Swahili and Arabic

A look at 20 words that Swahili (left) and Arabic (right) have in common - stay tuned for more videos in more languages! Info: Swahili is a language spoken across East and Central Africa (many of you may know a few words like Simba, Kwanzaa and Hakuna Matata), while Arabic is spoken across the Middle East and North Africa. During the Middle Ages, traders from the Arab world brought Islam to East Africa, married into the local population and helped create a hybrid Arab-African culture that would later be called "Swahili" (Arabic for "coastal people"). All of the words in this video originally came from Arabic and were borrowed over the course of the last thousand years