Definition of Hakuna Matata

A Swahili-language expersion that means forgetting about your troubles

Let us agree that languages ​​such as Arabic, Chinese or some language of African origin, such as the Swahili, present a influence less compared to other languages ​​such as English or Spanish when it comes to installing words or phrases of their languages ​​and this is because they have a smaller number of speakers worldwide.

Now, but this changes when there is a medium as powerful as the movie theater or TV that echo some of them and then, a word from a language that practically nobody knew, suddenly, and thanks to the magnitude of the seventh art it becomes a phrase of hyper popular use, which can even upset some of its own ...

A phrase from the African Orien

And this is precisely what happened with the phrase Hakuna Matata, what does it mean do not worry or do not worry and which is certainly popular in the aforementioned language Swahili, of African origin and spoken in many countries of this continent, such as Tanzania, Kenya, Congo, Somalia, among others.

Popularized by the design The Lion King

Meanwhile, and from the success of the animated film of Disney The Lion King, where it is pronounced repeatedly, the expression became hyper known around the world, as well as hello, thank you, coffe, among others.

But there is a reason for being that prompted its use instead of others and she was that the protagonist of the story is a very young lion from the bed sheet from Africa and who precisely speaks this language.

As we noted, the film was a success and so was the phrase that had its own song on the soundtrack of the film that was even very celebrated because another song from the film, performed by Elton John, won the Award Oscar in the category Best Original Song.

It is part of one of the most salient passages of the homonymous song and which by the way expresses in a very clear and concrete way the leitmotif of the phrase.