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I really like the clicks in Zulu and Xhosa! Also the complicated Bantu system of putting prefixes on nouns to show the different classes is like a linguistic jigsaw puzzle. And don't get me started on those amazing locative nouns! The Zulu name for "Johannesburg" is "iGoli" but "in Johannesburg" is "eGoli".

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Brian Loo Soon Hua
Brian Loo Soon Hua

Written by Brian Loo Soon Hua

I create daily sci-fi and fantasy art at Xenolocution: https://medium.com/xenolocution I also write true ghost stories at https://medium.com/haunted-office

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