MY LANGUAGE - SHONA - SPOKEN BY MILLIONS IN ZIMBABWE (THE MAIN DIALECT).


1. we want freedom --- tinoda rusununguko.
2. beautiful girl --- tsvarakadenga.
3. black man --- munhu mutema.
4. people --- vanhu.
5. God --- Mwari.
6. God --- Nyadenga.
7. God --- Musiki.
8. God --- Musikavanhu
9. South --- Chamhembe
10. Knowledge --- ruzivo.
11. The Sun --- zuva


counting 1 to 10
1 poshi
2 piri
3 tatu
4 ina
5 shanu
6 tanhatu
7 nomwe
8 rusere
9 pfumbamwe
10 gumi.

SHONA IS ONE THE THE BANTU DIALECTS AND IS SPOKEN BY NOT LESS THAN 10 MILLION PEOPLE IN ZIMBABWE AND PARTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, it has many variants though.

thanks. (Maita henyu).

By the way Zimbabwe means great big house of stone, stones are very important in my culture and played & still do play a major role in our society. Zimba- means big house - bwe means stone so put together Zimba & bwe make the word Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe has 5 out of ten of the worlds greatest stone sculpturures hmmm. Some of the stone sculptures from Zimbabwe influenced picassos paintings after a friend of his sent him photos of Shona sculpture picasso kept on requesting for more and they inspired his later work.

One of the most Ancient civilisations known in Africa named Madzimbabwe (Great Zimbabwe) which was ruled by the likes of King Munhumutapa is where Zimbabwe got its name as a country as well. There where 7 birds carved of stone in the ruins of Madzimbabwe which are said to have been fish eagles/ doves, some where taken away by the Germans and later given back, of the 7 stone birds 4 have been recovered -- there is a belief by some that Zimbabwe shall only have peace when all seven birds are restored to their rightful place in Zimbabwe.

So a bit of my language + culture. thanx