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A wayang kulit performance accompanied by a gamelan orchestra, between 1862 and 1872. Wayang is the traditional puppet theatre of Indonesia. [6] [7] [8] It is an ancient form of storytelling known for its elaborate puppets and complex musical styles. [9]
Country: Indonesia: Reference: 00063: Region: Asia and the Pacific: Inscription history; Inscription: 2008 (3rd session) List: Representative: Wayang kulit (the leather shadow puppet), Wayang klitik (the flat wooden puppet), Wayang golek (the three-dimensional wooden puppet), Wayang wong (the human-form wayang theatre)
Kiliki or Kilikili is a fictional language originally created by Madhan Karky for the 2015 Indian epic action film Baahubali: The Beginning. [1] [2] It has 3000 words [3] and is written using 22 symbols.
The Oti–Volta languages form a subgroup of the Gur languages, comprising about 30 languages of northern Ghana, Benin, and Burkina Faso spoken by twelve million people.. The most populous language is Mooré, the national language of Burkina Faso, spoken by over 55% of Burkina Faso’s 20 million population and an additional 1 million in neighboring countries such as Ghana, Ivory Coast, Niger ...
West African Pidgin English arose during the period of the transatlantic slave trade as a language of commerce between British and African slave traders. Portuguese merchants were the first Europeans to trade in West Africa beginning in the 15th century, and West African Pidgin English contains numerous words of Portuguese origin such as sabi ('to know'), a derivation of the Portuguese saber. [3]
English. In olden times a man begot a woman on Luang. So they married. They married and begot two children. It was two boys and the firstborn was named Retieluai, the ...
The homonym sty found in the combination pigsty has a slightly different origin, namely it comes from the Old English stiġ-fearh—fearh (farrow) is the Old English word for "piglet"—where stiġ meant "hall" (cf. steward), possibly an early Old Norse loanword, which could be cognate with the word stīgan above.
Hotamis Kilim (detail), central Anatolia, early 19th century. A kilim ( Persian: گلیم gilīm Azerbaijani: kilim کیلیم; Turkish: kilim; Turkmen: kilim) is a flat tapestry-woven carpet or rug traditionally produced in countries of the former Persian Empire, including Iran, but also in the Balkans and the Turkic countries.