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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6228 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 1 of 1 12 June 2010 at 5:15pm | IP Logged |
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Just curious.
With all the press about South Africa and the World Cup recently, I read that isiZulu and isiXhosa ( the two main Bantu languages of South Africa) are mutually intelligible. Apparently they are both Nguni-Bantu languages and there is also relative intelligibility with Ndebele and Swazi. I was wondering what other Bantu languages are mutually intelligible? Swahili and Luganda? Lingala and Kikongo? Any Bantu scholars out there have any idea?? Edited by liddytime on 13 June 2010 at 1:29am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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