{"id":687,"date":"2008-04-05T10:23:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T09:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/?p=687"},"modified":"2008-04-05T10:23:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T09:23:09","slug":"malawi-blog-on-learning-tumbuka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/malawi-blog-on-learning-tumbuka\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Blog on Learning Tumbuka"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monire monire! Muli uli?<\/em> <\/p>\n

Tobias Kumwenda has started a blog to teach Tumbuka<\/a> ( via Global Voices<\/a>):<\/p>\n

The mission of this weblog is to teach those people who are not ChiTumbuka speakers located across the world, but have developed passion to learn this language.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\n<\/a>\"Manyani<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A great idea. Keep up the good work!<\/p>\n

See also Wikipedia:<\/p>\n

The Tumbuka language is a Bantu language which is spoken in parts of Malawi, Zambia, and Tanzania.<\/p>\n

The language of the Tumbuka people is called chiTumbuka – the ‘chi’ in front of Tumbuka meaning ‘the language of’, similar to ‘ki’ in kiSwahili or ‘se’ in seTswana.<\/p>\n

The World Almanac (1998) estimates approximately 2,000,000 Tumbuka speakers exist in the aforementioned three countries.<\/p>\n

There are substantial differences between the form of Tumbuka spoken in urban areas (which borrows some words from Chichewa\/Nyanja) and the “village” or “deep” Tumbuka spoken in villages. The Rumphi variant is often regarded as the most “linguistically pure”, and is sometimes called “real Tumbuka”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Disclaimer: Coming from Blantyre, my Tumbuka knowledge is non-existent, except for some vocab overlaps with Chichewa, even though I went to college with lots of northern Malawians. <\/p>\n

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Monire monire! Muli uli? Tobias Kumwenda has started a blog to teach Tumbuka ( via Global Voices): The mission of this weblog is to teach those people who are not ChiTumbuka speakers located across the world, but have developed passion to learn this language. A great idea. Keep up the good work! See also Wikipedia: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[177,176,178],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-malawian","tag-chitumbuka","tag-malawian-languages","tag-tumbuka"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1LJxC-b5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chiperoni.ch\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}