#Setswana
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Hozier’s Butchered Tongue is so resonant for me. Though my mother tongue wasn’t subject to a campaign of eradication like Scots Gaelic, Gaelic and Welsh, I have lost most of it to assimilation.
I’ve been relearning it for about a year now, and while it is very much a butchered tongue in my mouth, the act of speaking it is an act of resistance, of recovery, of joy.
It is still singing in me, here, above the ground - that has to count for something.
The lyrics are in Scots Gaelic (which I have been Learning more about the history of thanks to @ayeforscotland ‘s server — I highly recommend you watch his in defence of Scots Gaelic video) and my own mother tongue Setswana, and translate to “I feel at home, hearing a music few still understand.”
Finally, the person in the last panel is singing/shouting against a backdrop of newspaper headlines (one reads ‘Independence Now!’ as a nod to Welsh & Scottish independence movements) because fighting to bring back the Welsh, Gaelic & Scots Gaelic languages is a continuing challenge.
Special thanks to @relnicht for all his help with the Scots Gaelic!
#em.txt#em.jpeg#hozier#hozier fanart#butchered tongue#unreal unearth#fanart#Scots Gaelic#Setswana#hozier album#hozier unreal unearth#hozier butchered tongue#if anyone’s interested I’ll explain it panel by panel#comic#gaelige#edited to add context!!!
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Okay so, odd question but:
Cyrax is canonically from Botswana, so for a fic I'm working on I wanted to include him speaking Setswana and possibly making some food.
The food bit I can find some info on, though any more would be welcome but reliable translations and grammar guides for Setswana seem to be nonexistent so is there anyone who speaks Setswana that might be able to help me out?
Specifically I'm trying to find how to say "Please be careful" and any terms of endearment for both friends and romantic partners that exist, the more the merrier.
I just don't want to ignore the fact that he's from Botswana, especially since I'm also including these elements for other characters in the same fic (Czech terms of endearment from Tomáš, Mandarin phrases for Kuai Liang and Bi-Han, etc)
And I don't want to just cobble words together and fuck up the grammar so that it makes no sense
I know this is probably a long shot, but any help is greatly appreciated
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If you have any resources for Setswana, could you please share some? They're so scarce!
Hi there! I don't really have many resources, and you're probably aware of the ones I've collected already, but I'll share them anyway:
This is a pretty handy grammar guide
Here's another guide that's aimed a bit more at beginner level
This Youtube channel has some lessons for beginners
Here's another Youtube channel with useful videos
Here's a video with some more lessons for beginners
Some Setswana courses on Memrise
It's also available on uTalk (which is also an app)
You can buy graded readers here
Hope that helps! Good luck learning Setswana!
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South Africa has 11 official languages: Zulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, Setswana, English, Sesotho, Xitsonga, Siswati, Tshivenda and Ndebele. Many black South Africans are reluctant to use Afrikaans. The elite university, Stellenbosch, came under fire in 2015 for using Afrikaans in lectures, with some students saying they struggled in classes because of it. In 2021, the university announced its recommitment to a multilingual language policy, including Afrikaans, English and isiXhosa.
‘Ryanair Afrikaans test: South African fury over language quiz’, BBC
#BBC#Ryanair#South Africa#Afrikaans#Zulu#isiXhosa#Sepedi#Setswana#English#Sesotho#Xitsonga#Siswati#Tshivenda#Ndebele#black South Africans#Stellenbosch University
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A TSHIAMO E RE APARE
goa supa gore sello same go Ramasedi se a utlwala! pelo yame e tshweu jaaka A e agetse gonna, bontle bo tla direga!
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"Moja morago Kgosi" - Tswana Proverb The Chief eats last (A good person ensures that his family is well cared for. Used as a warning, even to chiefs, who squander communal assets) #setswana #africa #africanbeauty #traditionalbeer (at South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf07Tm4sYH1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Sorry if this is intrusive, but what exactly is your race? (sorry if this is too personal)
naw don't worry i don't mind talking about it especially cus i keep bringing it up very vaguely in my posts! my mother is black motswana and my father is hispanic and they're both immigrants and we live in britain ^^ but in the future i do want to move to mexico where a lot of my family still live
#my dad didnt speak spanish with me growing up and my mother didnt speak setswana with me so im not super familiar with either language sadly#because they wanted me to fit in as an “authentically” british child despite having immigrant parents#but qsmp is helping me connect with my heritage and i can understand almost all spoken and written spanish now#ask#mine
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Ndlovu Youth Choir's performance of bohemian rhapsody in (I think) Zulu was so good it brought tears to my eyes
#defs an nguni language but I'm bad at differentiating them#it didn't sound too unfamiliar hence my assumption of Zulu rather than Xhosa or sesotho or setswana
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unstoppable force (speech impediment that intensifies on plosives and tendency to speak in a monotone) vs. immovable object (Setswana being both a tonal language and heavily reliant on alveolar fricatives)
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African Còuntries That Spèaks Their Languages More Than Fòreign Languages:
1. Ethiopia 🇪🇹 (Amharic)
2. Tanzania 🇹🇿 (Swahili)
3. Somalia 🇸🇴 (Somali)
4. Kenya 🇰🇪 (Swahili)
5. Eritrea🇪🇷 (Tigrenia)
6. Zambia 🇿🇲 (Bemba, Nyanja)
7. Madagascar🇲🇬 (Malagasy)
8. Malawi 🇲🇼 (Chewa)
9. Botswana 🇧🇼 (Setswana)
10. Lesotho 🇱🇸 (Sesotho)
11. South Africa 🇿🇦 (Nguni, Sotho-Tswana)
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What is mamals in tswana
Hi! Unfortunately my Setswana is very limited and that word's not in my vocabulary. Glosbe gives a few suggestions. Sorry I can't help you further!
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Amapiano, a Nguni word loosely translated to "the pianos", is a South African subgenre of house music that emerged in South Africa in the mid-2010s. It is a hybrid of deep house, jazz, and lounge music characterized by synths and wide percussive basslines.
There is ambiguity and debate concerning its origins, with various accounts of the musical styles in the Johannesburg townships. Because it has a small similarities with Bacardi, some people assert the genre began in Pretoria but it remains uncertain. Various accounts as to who formed the popular genre make it impossible to accurately pinpoint its origins.
The word amapiano is a IsiZulu or IsiXhosa, or dipiano is a word loosely translated to "the pianos", The genre is mostly sang in Zulu and Xhosa, Sotho, Setswana, Xitsonga, one of South Africa's native tongues.
Amapiano is a subgenre of house and kwaito music. It is a hybrid of deep house, jazz, and lounge music characterised by synths and wide percussive basslines.
Amapiano is distinguished by high-pitched piano melodies, kwaito from South Africa basslines, low tempo 1990s South African house rhythms and percussions from another local subgenre of house known as tribal house.
An important element of the genre is the prevalent use of the "log drum", a wide percussive bassline, which was popularised by producer MDU aka TRP. According to amapiano pioneer Kabza De Small:
I don't know what happened. I don't know how he figured out the log drum. Amapiano music has always been there, but he's the one who came up with the log drum sound. These boys like experimenting. They always check out new plug-ins. So when MDU figured it out, he ran with it.
The use of percussive basslines in South African house music predates amapiano, and was possibly pioneered by kwaito producer M’Du (also known as Mdu Masilela.)
#amapiano#african#afrakan#kemetic dreams#africans#brownskin#brown skin#afrakans#african culture#african music#epic video#Nguni#house music#deep house#jazz#lounge#isizulu#Sotho#kwaito#synths
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Love is the compass #TheArtOfTheLoveVibration #Author #Compass #mentalhealth #spirituality #clarity #zulu #hlubi #setswana https://www.instagram.com/p/CpHOXCNDmUN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Eating without sharing is like swearing with your mouth. - Tswana Proverb. #africa #africanbeauty #southafrica #setswana (at South Africa) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf03ysRsnRA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Türkçe – Seni Seviyorum❤️✨
İngilizce – I love you❤️🔗
Afrika Dili- Ek het jou lief🐰🔗
Albanian – Te dua❤️💍
Arapça – Ana behibak❤️🔗
Arapça – Ana behibek 🖤✨
Bambara – M’bi fe♥️💦
Bangla – Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi♥️🤞🏻
Belarus Dili – Ya tabe kahayu🖤🔗
Bisaya – Nahigugma ako kanimo💙💍
Bulgarca – Obicham te💍❤️
Kamboçya Dili- Soro lahn nhee ah🐰💜
Cantonese Çince – Ngo oiy ney a✨🐰
Catalan – T’estimo💜💨
Cheyenne – Ne mohotatse❤️💍
Chichewa – Ndimakukonda❤️🔗
Corsican – Ti tengu caru 🐰❤️
Creol – Mi aime jou❤️🔗
Hırvatça – Volim te❤️😍
Çekçe – Miluji te😍✨
Dan Dili – Jeg Elsker Dig❤️✨
Belçika Dili – Ik hou van jou❤️🔗
Esperanto – Mi amas vin💍❤️
Estonya Dili – Ma armastan sind💍♥️
Ethiopya Dili – Afgreki’❣️🔗
Faroese – Eg elski teg🐰🔗
Farsça – Doset daram❤️💍
Filipin Dili – Mahal kita❤️✨
Fince – Mina rakastan sinua❤️🔗
Fransızca – Je t’aime, Je t’adore🐰✨
Gaelic – Ta gra agam ort🖤✨
Georgian – Mikvarhar💙💦
Almanca – Ich liebe dich💍❤️
Hiligaynon – Palangga ko ikaw♥️🔗
Hawai Dili – Aloha wau ia oi💦🔗
Hebrew – Ani ohev otah ♥️🔗
Hebrew – Ani ohev et otha ♥️🔗
Hiligaynon – Guina higugma ko ikaw💦🔗
Hinduca – Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae♥️🔗
Hmong – Kuv hlub koj😍🔗
Hopi – Nu’ umi unangwa’ta♥️🔗
Macarca – Szeretlek♥️🔗
Icelandic – Eg elska tig♥️🔗
Ilonggo – Palangga ko ikaw♥️🔗
Endonezya Dili – Saya cinta padamu🔗💚
Inuit – Negligevapse💚🔗
İrlanda Dili – Taim i’ ngra leat🔗💚
Italyanca – Ti amo💙🔗
Japonca – Aishiteru💦🔗
Kannada – Naanu ninna preetisuttene♥️🔗
Kapampangan – Kaluguran daka💚🔗
Kiswahili – Nakupenda♥️🔗
Konkani – Tu magel moga cho💚🔗
Korece – Sarang Heyo❤️🔗
Latince – Te amo✨❤️
Latvian – Es tevi miilu✨❤️
Lebanese – Bahibak✨❤️
Lithuanian – Tave myliu✨❤️
Malay – Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu✨❤️
Malayalam – Njan Ninne Premikunnu✨❤️
Mandarin Chinese – Wo ai ni✨❤️
Marathi – Me tula prem karto✨❤️
Mohawk – Kanbhik❤️✨
Moroccan – Ana moajaba bik❤️💍
Nahuatl – Ni mits neki❤️💍
Navaho – Ayor anosh’ni💙🔗
Norwegian – Jeg Elsker Deg💙🔗
Pandacan – Syota na kita!!💙🔗
Pangasinan – Inaru Taka💙🔗
Papiamento – Mi ta stimabo💙🔗
Persian – Doo-set daaram💙🔗
Pig Latin – Iay ovlay ouyay💙🔗
Polonya Dili – Kocham Ciebie💙🔗
Portakizce – Eu te amo😌❤️
Romanya Dili – Te iubesc😌❤️
Rusça – Ya tebya liubliu😌❤️
Scot Gaelic – Tha gra’dh agam ort😌❤️
Sırpça – Volim te✨❤️
Setswana – Ke a go rata✨❤️
İşaret Dili – ,,,/✨❤️
Sindhi – Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan🐰❣️
Sioux – Techihhila🐰❣️
Slovakça – Lu`bim ta🐰❣️
Slovenya Dili – Ljubim te🐰❣️
İspanyolca – Te quiero / Te amo🐰❣️
Swahili – Ninapenda wewe♥️🔗
İşveççe – Jag alskar dig♥️🔗
İşviçre Almancası – Ich lieb Di♥️🔗
Tagalog – Mahal kita♥️🔗
Tayvanca – Wa ga ei li💍❤️
Tahiti Dili- Ua Here Vau Ia Oe💍❤️
Tamil – Nan unnai kathalikaraen���❤️
Telugu – Nenu ninnu premistunnanu💍❤️
Thai – Chan rak khun 💍❤️
Thai – Phom rak khun 💍❤️
Ukrayna Dili- Ya tebe kahayu💍❤️
Urdu Dili – mai aap say pyaar karta hoo💍❤️
Vietnamca –Anh ye^u em❤️🔗
Vietnamca – Em ye^u anh ❤️
Welsh – ‘Rwy’n dy garu❤️🔗
Yiddish – Ikh hob dikh❤️🔗
Yoruba – Mo ni fe❤️🔗
Azerice-Seni Sevirem
Yunanca – S’agapo🔗❤️
Gujarati – Hoo thunay prem karoo💙🔗 choo♥️🔗
Hiligaynon – Palangga ko ikaw♥️🔗
Hawai Dili – Aloha wau ia oi💦🔗
Hebrew – Ani ohev otah ♥️🔗
Hebrew – Ani ohev et otha ♥️🔗
Hiligaynon – Guina higugma ko ikaw💦🔗
Hinduca – Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae♥️🔗
Hmong – Kuv hlub koj😍🔗
Hopi – Nu’ umi unangwa’ta♥️🔗
Macarca – Szeretlek♥️🔗
Icelandic – Eg elska tig♥️🔗
Ilonggo – Palangga ko ikaw♥️🔗
Endonezya Dili – Saya cinta padamu🔗💚
Inuit – Negligevapse💚🔗
İrlanda Dili – Taim i’ ngra leat🔗💚
Italyanca – Ti amo💙🔗
Japonca – Aishiteru💦🔗
Kannada – Naanu ninna preetisuttene♥️🔗
Kapampangan – Kaluguran daka💚🔗
~s~
Götürəndə zəhmət olmasa emoji atın♥️
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