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Wanyama kwa Kiswahili (Animals in Swahili)-gctid172550

Started by Heru Djet, Jan 12, 2016, 01:16 PM

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paka-cat/cats
mbwa-dog/dogs
samaki-fish
sungura-rabbit/rabbits
ndege-bird/birds
nyoka-snake/snakes
kobe-turtle/turtles
"Since most of our conscious modes of conceptualizing, acting and moving about are conditioned in part by our language, to use the language of another culture is to use that culture's ideas; and to use another culture's ideas in place of one's own is to relegate the latter to a position of de facto inferiority."
-sbAt Rkhty Amen

simba-lion (plural and singular)
mbwa mwitu-wolf (plural and singular)
papa-shark (plural and singular)
pomboo/mapomboo-dolphin (plural and singular)
tai-eagle (plural and singular)
fira-cobra (plural and singular)
kifaru/vifaru-rhinoceros (plural and singular)
"Since most of our conscious modes of conceptualizing, acting and moving about are conditioned in part by our language, to use the language of another culture is to use that culture's ideas; and to use another culture's ideas in place of one's own is to relegate the latter to a position of de facto inferiority."
-sbAt Rkhty Amen