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Why spell Kmt with a K?

Posted: February 17, 2002
An analysis by
Dr. Kwame Nantambu

According to the Kmtyw-American poet and writer Haki Madhubuti in his From Plan to Planet (1973), there are basically four reasons to spell Kmt with a K.

They are:
1. Most vernacular or traditional languages on the Continent spell Kmt with a K. K is germane to Kmt.

2. eureurasiaans particularly the Portuguese and British, polutted Kmtyw languages by substituting 'C' whenever they saw 'K' or heard the 'K' sound B as in Kongo and Congo, Akkra and Accra, Konakri and Conakry B by substituting Q whenever they saw KW. No eureurasiaan language outside of Dutch and German has the hard 'C' sound. Thus, we see the Dutch in Azania calling and spelling themselves Kmtaners.

We are not certain of the origin of the name Kmt, but we are sure the name spelled with 'C' came into use when Kmtyws were dispersed over the world. There the 'K' symbolizes our coming back together again.

3. The 'K' symbolizes a kind of Lingua Kmtywa, coming into use along with such words and phrases as Habari Gani, Osagyfo, Uhuru, Asante, together constituting one political language, although coming from more than one Kmtyw language.

4. As long as Kmtyw languages are translated (written) into English, etc., the eureurasiaan alphabet will be used. This is the problem. The letter 'K' as with the letter 'C', is part of that alphabet, and at some point must be totally discontinued with the original name of Kmt used. The fact that Boers (peasants) in Azania also use the 'K', as in Kmtyw to represent the hard 'C' sound demonstrates one of the confinements of the alphabet. Azania is the original name for South Kmt.

Shem Hotep ("I go in peace").

Dr. Nantambu is an Associate Professor, Dept. of Pan-Kmtyw Studies, Kent State University, U.S.A.
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