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You may want to know that the Bemba Language has been used to name the Ubuntu Linux Distribution, where Ubuntu means "Towards humanity". Isn't it so philosopical ? :)
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The phrase "getting in her pants" in this article seems a bit too slangy, but I can't think of a better alternate wording... Can anybody think of something to improve it? Power piglet 08:52, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Formally the name of the language is 'Chibemba' (or the variants Cibemba, Ichibemba, Chiwemba). Use of 'Bemba' on its own without 'language' following may be common, but is an informal, shorthand usage. For an encyclopedia, I think it would be more rigorous and consistent to use 'Bemba language' or 'Chibemba' but not 'Bemba' on its own, and so I've edited it in that way. Rexparry sydney 03:51, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
1)The Bemba language is spoken in three provinces of Zambia (Luapula, Northern and Copperbelt) but all the persons in these provinces are not native bemba speakers.Bemba simply evolved as the common language of the mining area hence its widespread useThe colonial authorities introduced taxes in Bamba areas to force them to work in the mines but left the South to produce food crops for the mines and the west was semi automous due to mining right treaty agreements. Similarly Nyanga become the common language of Lusaka and the administration, military and police as colonial powers used staff from Eastern province for administrative authority. The lamba's on the Copperbelt, the Lunda of Luapula province and many others (of whom I am one) speak Bemba as a second language. The view that all Bemba speakers are native Bemba's cost one Bemba presidential candidate dearly. He lost votes and the election largely due to this mistaken view. Many Zambian's brought up on the copperbelt speak Bemba but are very loyal to their original ethnic groups and certainly do not consider Bemba speaking to represent higher social standing. another incorrect statement in your analysis of the Bemba language. 5)Finally last election saw the alliance of the east, south, central and west and northwestern areas against the bemba north as a rejection of the premise of Bemba superiority that your dictionary seems to ascribe to.
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"Creole" is not the right term to describe Town Bemba. "Urban dialect" is a better description.
Creoles arise from pidgins - radically simplified languages that arise in contact situations - and are very different from their parent languages. Town Bemba never went through a pidgin phase, and although it has a lot of loanwords, its grammar and phonology differ only very slightly from traditional Bemba.
Is Town Bemba only spoken in the Copperbelt? An urbanised form of Bemba is also widely heard in Lusaka.
-- Tabisini ( talk) 18:21, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
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You may want to know that the Bemba Language has been used to name the Ubuntu Linux Distribution, where Ubuntu means "Towards humanity". Isn't it so philosopical ? :)
Ubuntu means Humanity to others
The phrase "getting in her pants" in this article seems a bit too slangy, but I can't think of a better alternate wording... Can anybody think of something to improve it? Power piglet 08:52, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Formally the name of the language is 'Chibemba' (or the variants Cibemba, Ichibemba, Chiwemba). Use of 'Bemba' on its own without 'language' following may be common, but is an informal, shorthand usage. For an encyclopedia, I think it would be more rigorous and consistent to use 'Bemba language' or 'Chibemba' but not 'Bemba' on its own, and so I've edited it in that way. Rexparry sydney 03:51, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
1)The Bemba language is spoken in three provinces of Zambia (Luapula, Northern and Copperbelt) but all the persons in these provinces are not native bemba speakers.Bemba simply evolved as the common language of the mining area hence its widespread useThe colonial authorities introduced taxes in Bamba areas to force them to work in the mines but left the South to produce food crops for the mines and the west was semi automous due to mining right treaty agreements. Similarly Nyanga become the common language of Lusaka and the administration, military and police as colonial powers used staff from Eastern province for administrative authority. The lamba's on the Copperbelt, the Lunda of Luapula province and many others (of whom I am one) speak Bemba as a second language. The view that all Bemba speakers are native Bemba's cost one Bemba presidential candidate dearly. He lost votes and the election largely due to this mistaken view. Many Zambian's brought up on the copperbelt speak Bemba but are very loyal to their original ethnic groups and certainly do not consider Bemba speaking to represent higher social standing. another incorrect statement in your analysis of the Bemba language. 5)Finally last election saw the alliance of the east, south, central and west and northwestern areas against the bemba north as a rejection of the premise of Bemba superiority that your dictionary seems to ascribe to.
If you are a native speaker of Bemba then you can help translate this template into your own language:
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02:47, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
"Creole" is not the right term to describe Town Bemba. "Urban dialect" is a better description.
Creoles arise from pidgins - radically simplified languages that arise in contact situations - and are very different from their parent languages. Town Bemba never went through a pidgin phase, and although it has a lot of loanwords, its grammar and phonology differ only very slightly from traditional Bemba.
Is Town Bemba only spoken in the Copperbelt? An urbanised form of Bemba is also widely heard in Lusaka.
-- Tabisini ( talk) 18:21, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
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