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Some names of animals in Gìkūyū Lion- Ndũ, Mũrũthi,Mũnyambũ, Ngatia Ngati- Wildebeest Ngondi - Hartebeest Ndogono - Hedge hog Njege - Porcupine Kamũhembe - The pygmy shrew ( looks...
This makes more sense for me, breaking it up and getting an alternate etymology of the word ‘Celebrity’ : - a fractured or divided tumor- ... tumors often dispense toxic environmen...
For 1000 years, Arabic was the primary international language of commerce, scholarship & politics, much as English is today. Over the centuries, English adopted many words that wer...
Many seem to have more faith in secular education than an Islamic education. So let’s see what happens when you prioritize the latter: 1. LANGUAGE: Mastering the complexities...
It makes no sense speaking yoruba when addressing the general public.
When I heard a peculiarly sounding yet familiar mantra in the Hindu temple at Denver my first hunch was why is Panditji pronouncing this way. Is he trying to stretch the mantra by...
There are many other indigenous languages in this country which are not official. I have absolutely no idea what the word "official" mean. Many spoken languages in this land of our...
Shakespeare's best (and strangest) insults, a thread: https://t.co/dyfC2LtVCj
Classical Chinese as a spoken language: an enquiry. (1/n) https://t.co/QYH7EzZ9wJ
In a surprise to absolutely no one, Justice Kagan's opinion in Jack Daniels is a terrific piece of #LegalWriting. Here's a quick #WilenskyOnStyle thread about the introduction, whi...
I often describe Pahlavi as the worst writing system ever invented. Let's take a perfectly-serviceable writing system for a completely different language (Aramaic) and adapt it fo...
A Chinese gives birth to a son, raises him with his language, sends him to school to learn English and others. A Nigerian Igbo gives birth to a son, raises him with queen's Engli...
70 COMMON WORDS THAT YORUBA SHOULD STOP REPLACING WITH ENGLISH. But - Ṣugbọn Except - Ayafi Nevertheless - Sibẹsibẹ Whatever - Ohunkohun Precisely - Gangan Very much - Gidi gaan...
Well, well, well, I have so much to say about the eternal Anglo, creator of the modern world. When I started learning English as a teenager I tried very hard to pick up the Receive...
*Layers and shades of Fear in the Qur'ān* The Arabic language is full of richness and depth which reveals with pin-point precision, clarity to specific nuances that are intended...
The 24 letters of the Greek Alphabet have an 8-8-8 Structure. The First Row of EIGHT letters represent Units, the Second Row of EIGHT letters represent Tens, the Third row of EIGHT...
Days of the week in af Soomaali 🧵: https://t.co/uFrDZWh06T
A treasure trove on the Arabic dialect spoken in 11th century Sicily/Tunis, in the guise of a series of corrections of their solecisms https://t.co/Mji0ZLPxNo
IGNORANCE AND ILLITERACY isn't embedded in not being acquainted with ALIEN language. 1: In most of our schools, kids are stupefied, humiliated and made to believe they're stupid ju...
Why do some chapters in the Qur'an start with disconnected letters (muqatta‘at)? 1) Indicating that the Qur'an uses the exact same letters that you do, but you cannot produce anyt...
Where does the English Word 'GOD' Originate? The Greek letter G (Gamma) is in the form of a Mason’s Square. The letter 0 (Omicron) is a Circle, and the letter D (Delta) a Triangle...
Arabic is one of the most romantic languages. It has at least 11 words for love and each of them conveys a different stage in the process of falling in love. A thread on expressio...
Just curious, what's there to brag about that you don't understand your language? The English language you are bragging about is another country's language. French, Chinese, Mand...
A new study involving NS of Arabic and NS of German shows that the areas of the brain where a language is processed, as well as the connections between these areas, vary according...
