{"id":17627,"date":"2010-04-11T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/?p=17627"},"modified":"2010-11-01T12:25:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T11:25:41","slug":"new-words-in-mpongwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorosoro.org\/en\/2010\/04\/new-words-in-mpongwe\/","title":{"rendered":"New words in Mpongwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is always interesting to compare languages through their use of daily words and expressions which are (too often !) held as universal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our filming crew is asked to gather terms for colours, numbers, daily phrases, etc. from all their interlocutors in their respective languages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This week we shine the light on Mpongwe, a north-west Bantu language (Myene subgroup) spoken in Gabon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>New words in Mpongwe with Henriette and Kialla<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A look on some populations\u2019 translations of modern world notions and objects is equally amusing and instructive: it shows how imaginative men &amp; women can be when it comes to adapting foreign concepts into a given culture, without necessarily using loanwords, or terms belonging to another language.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Lk8iBCvM7iY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"610\" height=\"370\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Lk8iBCvM7iY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Linguist<\/span><strong> <\/strong>: Patrick Mouguiama-Daouda<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Image and sound<\/span> : Muriel Lutz<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Editing<\/span> : Caroline Laurent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always interesting to compare languages through their use of daily words and expressions which are (too often !) held as universal. 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