Thursday, May 24, 2007

Drops Of Life in Shona

Shona (or ChiShona) is a native language of Zimbabwe and southern Zambia; the term is also used to identify those Kintu speaking peoples in Southern Africa who speak one of the Shona languages.The language was originally called Karanga. Shona proper is an official language of Zimbabwe, along with Ndebele and English.

Feel free to find The Drops Of Life (Madonwe Ehupenyu) in Shona, translated by Fadzai Nyajina,
"Manuscripts if different languages".

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

any language has it's own history and any language is important because according to this language we can realize the culture and the wisdom of ancient peaple.

Bryce Wesley Merkl said...

I noticed your post on Shona and thought I'd share a site in Shona that you might want to pass on to others:

chiShona wiki browser