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15-01-07, 06:56 PM
Afriki...............Yeahhh,Uwill find some great languages in here..........
Those I fear the most are children of immigrants born in the west I see them everyday here,they know little. The hardest hit, are those children who live without a parent who keeps up the language in the houseor doesn't live a community which shares a similar language. Theywill not have the advantage to speak their parent's mother language at all. Not that long ago, the African Union was trying to make Swahili an African wide language, where it becomes a national language for all of Africa, specially in business. I was like.......NOOOOOOOOOOOO Wayyyyyyyyyyyy. We need to revive and keepall African languages.
oh, and the "n" is not silent. You wouldn't prounounce it "En", like you're saying the letter, but rather taking away the "eh" sound and just saying "nn". Hard to explain, but does that make sense?
Yes it does, In Somali....there arevery close or similar words. It's one letter repeated. "Kh" which closely sounds as Q in english....e.g. Taariikhda = calendar/time period. You take away "khah" sound. Or the "Dh" in "dhulkooda" =their land. Now we are getting into grammer..niceone.gif
btw, this thread is a great idea and really is bringing me way way back lol. Now I have to back track and read some of the other languages here. I really hope I can find some Yoruban and Swahilli.
Yep.....There are some Swahili in the first 4 pages.
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