uMabhengwane
Voice on the left, with a loooooong excursus into isiZulu’s preference for the passive.
Archaic transitive/intransitive switches in isiZulu, combined with more recent izimpambosi structures.
Umtoliki, umlobi, imbongi, umcwaningi nomqoqi wezakudala, eneziqu zeMasters ngeClassics, okanye esekhuluma izilimi eziyisikhombisa.
Translator, writer, poet, researcher, cook and collector of arcana, with a Masters in Classics and (so far) seven languages under my belt.
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