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Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu . A person is a person through other people. Umntu ngumntu ngabantu . A person is a person through other people. Munhu munhu nevanhu . A person through other people. Ndiri nekuti tiri (Shona). I am because we are. Munhu i munhu hivanwani vanhu . A person is a person through other people.
The expression "umuntu, ngumuntu, ngabantu" which means "a person is a person because of other people", dominates Zulu social organization and is used as a tool to strengthen social harmony. In the Zulu community, competition is highly valued, especially with music, as it is seen as a social issue which is subject to competition.
The show is built on a premise that "umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu" meaning that we exist within a context. The show has strong family orientated storylines that seeks to speak to the conflict between the traditional and the modern ways.
Umuntu omdala, 'the old person' Umuntu mdala, 'the person is old' Umuntu omude, 'the tall person' Umuntu mude, 'the person is tall' Note that -dala goes with om-and -de with omu-because the long form of the prefix/concord is used when the stem is monosyllabic, else the short one is used. Another example for a class 9 noun with adjectival ...
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Probably the most radical sound innovation in the Sotho–Tswana languages is that the Proto-Bantu prenasalized consonants have become simple stops and affricates. [2] Thus isiZulu words such as entabeni ('on the mountain'), impuphu ('flour'), ezinkulu ('the big ones'), ukulanda ('to fetch'), ukulamba ('to become hungry'), and ukuthenga ('to buy') are cognates to Sesotho [tʰɑbeŋ̩] thabeng ...
In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. [1] An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical accent), the socioeconomic status of its speakers, their ethnicity (an ethnolect), their caste or social class (a social accent), or influence from their ...
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