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Khetha

Post author By White Zulu
Post date July 6, 2019
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Ngakhetha ukungena ngesango elincane, nokuhamba ngendlela eyingcingo. Emva koKhetho, nasemva kokuba kwaphinda kwacweba iziziba, ngizithola ngihlukile. Izwe lethu libukeka sengathi nalo lihlukile – kunenhlasana yethemba, kungaqhutshekwa emva kweminyaka yenkohlakalo. Kodwa sengiqala ukuwuzwa umehluko kimina. Kusengathi ngaba yisiphungumangathi esalenga iminyaka emoyeni, kwaqhamuka esinye isilwane kunalesiya esangena kusona. Kodwa abakwaziyo bathi isiphungumangathi singathatha iminyaka ukuze okungaphakathi kwaso […]

Tags isiphungumangathi, isiZulu, Khethiwe, Kwasukela Books, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, ukhetho, ukuThintana, ulimi, uliminyoninco, umlungu, umuntu, uSikhulumi kaHlokohloko

izaga nezisho / proverbs and idiom Linguistics / ubuLimi

umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu

{What follows is a meditation on the deeper meaning of this proverb, which I wrote as an explanation for some work that a friend of mine is currently doing on the intersection between ubuntu and human rights.} This is the phrase which is so often uttered as an expression of ubuntu – I have seen […]

Tags African, human, isintu, ubuntu, umuntu

incwadinsuku / daily blog Linguistics / ubuLimi umbhudulo

Gender pt 2: roles

This post is the second part in a series on gender or ubulili ngesiZulu. Please read the first part if you’re lost at any point. The essential word for human is umuntu. Though it has a related connotation of African human, it is the most generic word. From it are derived the word for child […]

Tags -nsizwa, bhungu, bhunguka, bhungula, fiance, fiancee, gender, gender roles, godu, godusa, ibhungu, indoda, indodakazi, indodana, indodisisa, ingoduso, inkosana, inkosazana, inkosi, inkosikazi, insizwa, insizwambuzi, insizwankomo, intombazane, intombi, isintu, isoka, itshitshi, izigaba zamabizo, Noun Classes, ubaba, ubabezala, ubudoda, ubulili, ubuntombi, ubuntu, ubusoka, udadewethu, ugogo, ukusoka, uluntu, umakoti, umalume, umalumekazi, umama, umamezala, umfowethu, umkhulu, umkhwekazi, umkhwenyana, umntwana, umukhwe, umuntu

Linguistics / ubuLimi

Word Routes (or going down the rabbit hole)

Post author By White Zulu
Post date September 28, 2012
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You hear a word, and something in it sticks in you. You hear it often enough, and it starts to take on a specific meaning depending on when you hear it. You grow to understand it, and even use it. But it nags at you. It begs to be investigated. So you track it down, […]

Tags isintu, isiZulu, ntu, ubuntu, uluntu, umuntu, word route