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Hláka – Word Route

Sometime this week, I was listening to Ezisematheni (stories-on-the-saliva or on-the-tip-of-the-tongue) when I heard the following phrase: i-NFP iyahlakaza izinhlaka ezintsha e-KZN the NFP is hlakaza-ing new izin-hlaka in KZN So of course my first thought was this: there must be an ideophone lurking at the heart of both those words. And I was right. […]