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    bemba

    Language & Culture Studying bemba


    ...continued in the U.S.
    Below is a partial list of some of the universities
    Some examples of common Bemba words and phrases are:
    in the United States that currently offer
    How are you? Mwashibukeni?
    I am fine. Eyamukwayi. Bemba. For more information, please contact
    Yes. Eya ye. the National African Language Resource
    No. Awe. Center or visit the NALRC website at: http://
    Thank you. Twa to te la. www.nalrc.indiana.edu.
    Stop! Iminina!
    Let’s go! Natuleya!
    the market ekobashita fyakulya
    Cameron University,
    How much? Shinga? Emory University
    It is too much! Fingi! Michigan State University,
    drinking water amenshi ayakuwa Tennessee Foreign Language Institute
    some food ichakulya

    Some of the historical and linguistic information


    usedin this text is from the research of Professors
    A.R.M. Kasonde, M.E. Kashoki, and Debra
    Spitulnik and was taken from the website of the
    Department of Anthropology of
    Emory University. It can be accessed at:

    http://www.anthropology.emory.edu/FACULTY/
    ANTDS/Bemba/profile.html

    http://www.medguide.org.zm/translation/
    vocabtbl.htm

    National African
    Language Resource
    Center (NALRC)
    701 Eigenmann Hall, 1900 East 10th Street
    Bloomington, IN 47406 USA
    A BEMBA WOMAN
    Telephone: (812) 856-4199, Fax: 8128564189
    Email: nalrc@indiana.edu
    Website: http://www.nalrc.indiana.edu National African Language
    Resource Center (NALRC)
    Why Study bemba? Language & Culture
    Bemba, also known as iciBemba, ciBemba, chiBemba, and Bemba is classified as a Central Bantu language. The
    ichiBemba, is spoken primarily in the Northern, Copperbelt, Bantu language is the member of the Benue-Congo
    and Luapula provinces of Zambia, as well as in the southern family, a branch of the Niger-Congo family, which is a
    parts of both the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and
    branch of the Niger-Kordofanian family. The most
    Tanzania. Since the Bembas are the dominant ethnic group in
    Zambia, Bemba is the most common indigenous language
    closely related languages to Bemba are Kaonde (Zambia
    used in the country. Almost four million people speak it as a and the DRC), Luba (DRC), Nsenga (Zambia), Tonga
    first language, and another two million use it as a second (Zambia), and Nyanja/Chewa (Zambia and Malawi). In
    language. Newspapers and magazines are published in Bemba the early 1800s, Portuguese and Arab traders were quite
    and there are also radio broadcasts and a few television active in the Bemba-speaking regions and as a result,
    programs in the language. Bemba has a number of loan words from both Portuguese Bemba lady preparing food
    and Arabic. Many Swahili words have also entered
    A knowledge of Bemba is essential to anyone in linguistics, Bemba through direct contact with the Swahili-speaking
    anthropology, history, and folklore who wants to study in the
    people of the region. When English-speaking missionaries
    countries where Bemba is spoken. Individuals working for
    international organizations will also find that they can
    arrived in the late 1880s, words from their language also
    accomplish their day-to-day tasks more easily if they can speak entered the Bemba vocabulary. In recent years, Bemba
    Bemba. Tourists, too, will soon discover that a knowledge of has incorporated numerous loan words from Afrikaans
    Bemba will allow them to enjoy their holidays more if they and Zulu, via mine workers’ pidgins, such as Fanagala,
    can communicate with the Bemba-speaking people of the Kabanga, and Fanakalo.
    DRC, Tanzania, and Zambia.
    Today, Bemba has a number of dialects which are
    distinguished by their association with distinct ethnic
    Who Speaks bemba? groups and cultures. Each dialect exhibits minor
    differences in pronunciation, phonology, morphology, and
    Peopl e and History vocabulary. Because Bemba is a widely used lingua franca,
    especially in urban areas of Zambia, the city dialects have
    The Bemba-speaking people in Zambia originated from the an unusually large number of lexical borrowings from Two Bemba preachers
    Kola region of what is now the Democratic Republic of English, the national language. Among the Bemba
    Congo. They are a branch of the ancient Luba Empire and
    orthographic rules now officially approved by the
    settled in the high plateau area of northeastern Zambia, from
    Lake Bangweulu to the Malawi border, sometime during the government are: a)the use of Roman letters, b)the
    middle of the 17th century. By the end of the 18th century, symbolization of long vowels with doubled vowel
    the Bembas had established a powerful kingdom under the grapheme's, c)the orthographic standardization of certain
    central authority of Chitimukulu, the paramount chief. affricates, fricatives, and nasals, d)the non-symbolization
    Bemba rule continued to expand widely throughout of tone, despite its semantic functions, and e)the adoption
    northeastern Zambia until the end of the 19th century, when of a conjunctive mode of spelling nouns, verbs, adjectives
    the first European missionaries and fortune-seekers began to and other grammatical forms which represents them with
    vie for power in the area. By 1890, Cecil Rhodes’ British their bound affixes.
    South African Company had taken control of all of the Bemba
    territory, and in 1924, the British colony of Northern
    Rhodesia was established across the entire region of what is
    present-day Zambia. Zambia gained its independence from
    Great Britain in 1964. Bemba traditional dancers

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