People of the same age: Habari yako., if your greeting someone in the morning you would say Habari ya asubuhi, in the evening habari ya jioni, afternoon : habari ya mchana. You would really not say how are you doing unless the other person is sick or there has been a death in which case you would say habari yako, unaendeleaje? Greeting a person who is alot older than you you would have to say Shikamo as saying Habari yako is disrespectful.
answer : hellow if you go to www.Google .com and enter translate and press the first one you can translate any languge you want.
In Swahili, you can say "Habari yako?" to ask someone "How are you?" and "Habari?" to say "Hello."
The most common way to say hello in Swahili is "Jambo."
The Swahili language uses "Jambo" or "Habari" to say hello.
Most people simply say "hello," which is the standard word for answering the telephone. Some people say jambo, but this is akin to pidgin Swahili. Standard Swahili greetings are questions, inquiring after the health of the interlocutor.
Hello friend= Jambo rafiki / Hello my friend= Jambo rafiki yangu... And if you want to say friends=marafiki.. -Lola :)
The English hallo or hello is often used in Swahili as a greeting, almost invariably on the phone and often in personal meetings. It is often misspelled as hallow or hellow.Salaam is the standard Swahili for "greetings."
The most common way to say hello in Swahili is "Jambo."
Hello is "Jambo" or "Habari", while goodbye is "Kwaheri".
habari mtanashati
Jambo rafiki
Most people simply say "hello," which is the standard word for answering the telephone. Some people say jambo, but this is akin to pidgin Swahili. Standard Swahili greetings are questions, inquiring after the health of the interlocutor.
The English hallo or hello is often used in Swahili as a greeting, almost invariably on the phone and often in personal meetings. It is often misspelled as hallow or hellow.Salaam is the standard Swahili for "greetings."
"Jambo, jina langu ni Aine."
Hello friend= Jambo rafiki / Hello my friend= Jambo rafiki yangu... And if you want to say friends=marafiki.. -Lola :)
Swahili: Salama or JamboEnglish: Hello
Salaam by itself, "greetings," is used in the same sense that we say hello in English.Some people, especially teens and young adults, use the English words hello or hi. But the common greetings, and there are dozens of them, are all variations of "how are you?" "what's the news?" and so on.
"Jambo" means hello in Swahili.
Yes, some Swahili words that are equal to English are: rafiki (friend), nyumba (house), kitabu (book), and muziki (music).