Kiswahili

Kiswahili is a quite rational logical language, thankfully, which suits me just fine.

Juma = week

Siku = day

The days of the week are really easy to learn, you just have to turn the week a bit upside down since the Swahili week is based on the Islamic calendar and therefore does not start with Monday as our do but with Saturday since Friday is their most important day and therefore should be last.

The first weekdays are easy to learn because since they start with the word juma and ends with a number. I’ll try and explain.

Jumamosi = Saturday (Juma = week, mosi = first)

Jumapili = Sunday (Pili = second)

Jumatatu = Monday (Tatu = tree)

Jumanne = Tuesday (Nne = four)

Jumatano = Wednesday (Tano = five)

After these it gets tricky with the last two.

Alhamisi = Thursday (means something like day before holy pray day and is pronounced in a very Arabic way, a bit like Aljazeera)

Ijumaa = Friday (the most important day of the week, their holy day).