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Bantu languages: popularizing knowledge, sharing doubts / Vitrine sur les langues bantu (pas bantoues!) / Uma entrada nas línguas bantu (não bantas!)

가입일 Mayıs 2020
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Nzinzi ata akopimbwa likolo, azali ndeke te (lingala) 🇨🇩🇨🇬 La mouche a beau voler haut, ce n'est pas un oiseau (français) 🇫🇷🇨🇦 Even if a fly can fly high, it is not a bird (English) 🇺🇸🇬🇧 Mesmo que a mosca voe alto, não é um pássaro (Português) 🇧🇷🇵🇹 #Lingala #Bantu #Proverbs
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@AfricanHub_ He just paid for a result that is not reliable. Anyway he has African origins.
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African Hub@AfricanHub_·
American actor Samuel L. Jackson has traced his ancestry to the Bantu tribe of Gabon 🇬🇦. The Bantu are speakers of Bantu languages and consist of hundreds of indigenous ethnic groups across sub-Saharan Africa, stretching from Central Africa through the African Great Lakes region to Southern Africa. He was received as a long-lost son by the Benga community and formally welcomed into the tribe, gaining rare and exceptional access to sacred ceremonies and traditional practices.
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Look how we are one! “Eat and drink” in Rukwangali (Namibia) is “kulya no kunwa”. Check with your Ntu language.
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@BantuLanguages Freedom is inkululeko Prison - intilongo derived from the Afrikaans word tronk IsiNdebele 🇿🇼
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What is “freedom” in your Ntu language and what is “prison”?
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When I lived in Zambia, they called me “Mapalo” as it’s a blessing (mapalo) to receive a visitor (umweni). Henn & Robinson show this systematically: "guest" &"stranger" tend to be the same word in African languages, but not elsewhere. This may reflect a will to incorporate newcomers
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@Patrick_keebe 😂😂 en même temps si on attend nos propres outils internet, comme d’hab on attendra des siècles. Mais pour critiquer toza makasi penza
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Apple's Siri is an acronym for “Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface”. But in Kiswahili, siri means secret!!! What’s the word secret in your Ntu language?
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How do you say "respect" in your Ntu language? I bet it ends with « ana » 😉
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Kimbundu Online@KimbunduOnline·
You guys still remember us?
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What do you call a "bird" in your Ntu language? Kazila? Ndege? Noni?
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