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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.
It is part of a concept sometimes translated as "I am because we are" (also "I am because you are"), or "humanity towards others" (in Zulu, umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu). In Xhosa , the latter term is used, but is often meant in a more philosophical sense to mean "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".
Umuganda means "coming together in common purpose" in Kinyarwanda, the official language of Rwanda.The word was derived from the Nguni proverb 'Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu'', which means "a person is a person through other persons". [2]
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.
Abantu is the Ndebele, Swazi, Xhosa and Zulu word for people. It is the plural of the word 'umuntu', meaning 'person', and is based on the stem '--ntu', plus the plural prefix 'aba'. [6] In linguistics, the word Bantu, for the language families and its speakers, is an artificial term based on the reconstructed Proto-Bantu term for "people" or ...
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 ...
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language.. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects.