The term ‘Witch-Doctor’ is both broad and controversial, colloquially used to identify traditional African healers – of which there are over 75,000 in Tanzania alone. For starters, the term doesn’t originate from Swahili. Its roots are colonial and have historically enforced the stereotype of...
The current study explored whether new words in a foreign language are learned better from pictures than from native language translations. In both between-subjects and within-subject designs, Swahili words were not learned better from pictures than from English translations (Experiments 1-3). ...
Of course, the movieFrozenis popular in our house. We have a 7-year-old daughter, and while “Let It Go” is overplayed and overused, its words are rich in meaning and application for life. This particular line, if you’re one of the seven people on the planet who haven’t seen t...
Do the Swahili speak Bantu? Do Bantu people speak Swahili? Were Noks Bantu-speaking peoples? Were South Africans Bantu-speaking people? Is Swahili the same as Bantu? Do the Hausa people speak their own language? Did Great Zimbabwe have a written language? Are the Hausa Bantu? Are Yoruba ...
They nicknamed the youngster “Mtoto”, meaning “child” in Swahili. The discovery, the researchers said, sheds light on the development of early complex social behaviours in Homo sapiens. “This is at the root of the symbolic mind that characterises Homo sapiens,” said anthro...
many of us have wrestled with the annoying genders in European languages, such as French's masculinele bateau("the boat") and femininela maison("the house"). There are, in fact, many languages with multiple genders to learn (Swahili features six main ones), while just as many other lang...
Most people in the world are multilingual, and everybody could be; no one is rigorously excluded from another's language community except through lack of time and effort. Different languages protect and nourish the growth of different cultures, where different pathways of human knowledge can be ...
Righteous deeds vary in their merit depending on how they are preferred by the Shariah and on their distinct conditions. Translation: Urdu Spanish Indonesian Uyghur French Turkish Russian Bosnian Sinhala Indian Chinese Persian Vietnamese Tagalog Kurdish Hausa Portuguese Malayalam Telgu Swahili Thai Pashto...
One-third of the British use such long words that most of us cannot even pronounce them (let alone understand them) and some 25 per cent are immigrants who speak only Hindi, Bengali, Chinese, French, Gujarati, Arabic, Xhosa, Russian, Punjabi, Swahili, Urdu, Italian, Turkish, Spanish, ...
When choosing a safari destination, our recommendation is to evoke the origins of the word “safari” instead. This is a Swahili word meaning“long journey”. A long journey impliessomething unpredictable, moving the expectation away from five animals to a personal experience in the wild. After ...