Qustion for linguists

[Trumpeldor]

There are a great many languages and cultures that have contributed to the English language. Have any words have entered our dialect from African tribal languages?

[genteelgentile]

death by bunga bunga

[Eliezer Ben Avraham]

not that I know of, but a ton of yiddish words have

[MassuhDGoodName]

More than you might think...

Among them:
gooba slurred to become goober peas (peanuts)
gumbo
banjo
limbo
jive
jass became jazz
Voun Doun VooDoo
Mambo
banana
conga
mamba snake
simba lion
Congo
ju-ju magic
Watusi
pygmy
Ubangi
Zulu
[censored] A river & root of the word n#*@er

[Vito]

Mumbo Jumbo

[Raulmarrio2000]

All languages from Sanscrit to English, forom Coptic to Sumerian, from Esquimo to Japanese, all, absolutely all languages are Hebrew dialects.

Earth = Eretz
Eye = Ayin
Seven = Sheva
Have = Hayah/Hoveh

[Vito]

All languages from Sanscrit to English, forom Coptic to Sumerian, from Esquimo to Japanese, all, absolutely all languages are Hebrew dialects.

Earth = Eretz
Eye = Ayin
Seven = Sheva
Have = Hayah/Hoveh

I beg to differ..

Hello = Shalom
Nose = Af
I want to buy food = Ani rotze liknot ochel
What's up? = Ma ha matzav?

Hebrew is a Semetic langauge, English is a Germanic language with Latin and Greek influence.

You can find similarities between any two languages by pure coincidence (i.e. "ne" means "yes" in Greek and Korean)

[Husar]

Here's what I know for Serbian:

I am: Ja sam (pronounce "Ya" sam, like in german: "j"="y")
mother: mater
son: sin
daughter: (old Serbian dokcer, dokcher) 'kcer ('kcher)
brother: (old Serbian brater) brat
sister: sestra
milk: mleko
seat down: sedi dole
throat: vrat
knee: koleno
blue: plavo
water: voda

(By the way:
for the "infinitive"
form in grammar:
to (something), in English,
(something)-ti, in Serbian,
we deal here with the "T" letter,

whereas in germanic,
you've got the "en" or "ein" form,
for instance "gehen", to go,
same as in Greek,
for instance "potein", to drink,
which gives it a german
"look", structure)

wo(u)lf: (old Serbian vulk) vuk (volk in Russian)
bear: bral (bralin=berlin)
beard: brada
(eye-)brow: obrva
to eat: jesti (yesti)

again some grammar:
eaten: jeden (yeden)

gold: zlato
golden: zlatan
to lie: lagati (germanic lügen)
to slam: slomiti
to stoop: stupati
hard: tv(a)rd
guest: gost
sun: sunce
grave: grob
to beat: biti
day: dan
night: noc (notch)
mouse: mis (mish)
new: novo
heart: srce (s'art'se)
tamed: pitom
dear: drag(i)
down: dole
meat: meso
mute: mutav
love: ljubav (lyoobav) (liebe, in german)
hehemmmm, to piss: pis(h)ati
both: oba
yester(day): jucer (yoocher)
to lick: lizati
to suck: sisati
to stay: stajati (stayati)
log: log
buffalo: bivol
young: jun (yoon)
I: Ja (Ya)
snow: sneg
no: ne
saddle: sedlo
murk: mrk
to sit: sesti
ale: alevina
book: bukvar
divine: divno
nacked: nag
left: levo
east: istok
one: jedan (yedan)
two: dva
three: tri
six: sest
seven: sedam
eight: osam
thousand: tisuc (teesooch)
stone: stena
goose: guska
swine: svinja (svinya)
plough: plug
wine: vino
my: moj (moy)
nose: nos
thin: tanak
flame: plamen
will: volja (volya)
smile: osmeh, smej se (smey se)
tree: drvo
boat: brod
to be: biti
thorn: trn
apple: jabuka (yabooka) (Russian: jabloko, yabloko)
widow: udovica
need: njuzda (nyoozda)
small: mali
idle: igla
many: mnogo
light (not heavy): lak, lagan
to deal: delati
breast: p(e)rsa
rib (bone): rebro
to hurry: zuriti, juriti (yooriti)
habits: obicaj (obitshay)
desk: daska
boots: obuca (obootsha)
nest: gnezdo

For a few ones...

Such a list can be done
with german/Serbian comparison,
latin/Serbian, etc.


This topic pleases me a lot.
I'm fond of Linguistics.

 

I'm sorry if I didn't put
anything about african words...

[genteelgentile]

nkk ookk nik nukzeree mkkdfsd

[briann]

All languages from Sanscrit to English, forom Coptic to Sumerian, from Esquimo to Japanese, all, absolutely all languages are Hebrew dialects.

Earth = Eretz
Eye = Ayin
Seven = Sheva
Have = Hayah/Hoveh

WHAT??? You need to take a linguistics class.  There are 100's of unique languages out there.  Many are completely isolated, especially all the languages in places like New Guinea, [censored], etc.  Technically Hebrew is part of a different language family (semetic) than most European languages, which are mostly Indo-European but there a few words that are shared between families here and there because of trade or conquest.  Just like Spanish shares some of the Moorish language, since it was conquered for a few centuries by the Moores. (Ojala which means 'I wish' in spanish, came from: 'Oh Alah' in their stupid language.