Tag: isiNguni

Sholoza, Msholozi

I couldn’t help but see you, on my drive home. There, the size of a building, is the message in yellow and black and green. And there you are, your face many times its actual size, staring out. I could see you, but I presume that you couldn’t see me. Unlike many political adverts, such […]

Tags ANC, aptronym, deus ex machina, Electioneering, Euripides, isiNguni, isiZulu, Johannesburg, linguistic hegemony, Medea, Msholozi, posters, ukusholoza, Zuma

Linguistics / ubuLimi

Thoughts on Persistence and Stability in isiNguni

Post author By White Zulu
Post date December 3, 2012
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I’ve just been reading a journal article: Basque Language: History and Origin by John D. Bengtson. It is a labyrinthine exploration of the intricate and sometime alien language that is Basque. Something caught my eye, though, on the third page: “According to George Starostin (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) the 50 most basic and […]

Tags Basque, isiNguni, isiZulu, linguistics