Bafundi abahle: nansi ncwadi ezonisiza ngokufundisa ngezigaba zamabizo. Kunesivivinyo ekugcineni. Dear readers: here’s a document which will help y’all by teaching about the noun classes. There’s a test at the end.
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Three month hiatus
Kade sagcinana! Mehlo madala! It’s been too long since I last wrote anything on here. All that I’ve been able to connect with are a few glances at analytics every now and then, but no writing. And it’s not because I haven’t had things to write about! It’s rather that I haven’t had the headspace […]
I folded the A3 sheet into 8 rectangular sections, and laid it out in landscape – 4 on the top and 4 on the bottom. I arranged four different coloured pens, each for a specific aspect of the exercise. And then, from memory and from various sources scattered around the room, I began to fill […]
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 […]
As you grow up, you primarily learn the names of words for those things closest to you – your parents, things around the house, different relations, foods, animals etc. One of the vocabulary sets you almost unconsciously pick up contains words for parts of your own body. In English, this represents a dizzying array of […]
These things make a bit more sense in the light of day than they did at 6 this morning. Locative Demonstrative Copulatives, or LDCs, do not occur in English. They don’t occur in any of the Indo-European languages, as far as I’m aware. They are the strange chimeric offspring of Demonstrative Pronouns and Copulatives, and […]
For those of you reading this who know what Noun Classes are in terms of isiZulu, you can skip the next paragraph. For the rest of you, read on. For a list of the different blogs dealing with specific nouns in each isigaba, go here. Many languages classify nouns. Indo-European languages like German, Latin, Sanskrit […]