₦airaland Forum

CAMEROONPRIDE: I can't tell but I wouldn't b surprised .however bassa and shona have been separated for a longer period of time have , lived or are living near different ethnic groupso bassa or shona may have been altered to the point that it is very difficult for them to understand each other. Also people tend to downplay the influence of foreign languages on our own languages

What about shona and xhosa?

CAMEROONPRIDE: we have, dances, music, food, some rituals. the "look" etc . now let's get closer. what's the difference between a Xhosa and a Zulu ?
or a baynakole and Hutu?
what's the difference between a fang and a Beti?
of course if you take a Bantu(farmer from the centre) and compare with a bantu living in the mountain/cattle rear , u sill more differences than similarities it still doesn't change the fact that they are the same.
another great example is the Fulani. we know there are the nomadic Fulani and the non nomadic aren't they all Fulani? don't they have the same culture? Fulaman will sed more light but I heard and I know some non nomadic Fulani I mean most are now mixed and have adopted dfferent habits. let's take the case of food . whatare the chance that a nomadic Fulani knows about spices/salt? or even fish? does it mean that now that the non nomadic who know love fish or bush meat more than cows aren't anymore Fulani ?

But normadic fulani and city fulani speak the same language just in different dialects. Just as you have the manding people who speak different dilects in different countries. Unless, you want to tell me that Basaa and Shona are the same but just spoken in different dialects. Is basaa mutually intelligible to shona?

I am confused, is bantu now being referred to as an ethnicity? There are different facial characteristics amongst people from ethnicities who speak the bantu languages. No one ethnicity be it from the bantu group or niger congo looks the same but if you want to take a bird's eye view you can easily tell by region not by language. People have been using the word bantu to describe others in a negative manner making it seem like it's a disease to come from that language group(onila).

Yes, southern africans have a certain look so do east west and central when broken down there are certain looks within that southern, central, east or west. So, there is no such thing as looking bantu. We are different and we should embrace our differences as one. I mean, if anyone wants to be we are one and the same. Nothing wrong with that either. We are from the same continent are we not?

I was watching a video yesterday of these somali singers msdarkskin posted and I thought the video was shot in somalian because of the people features but read comments saying it was shot in kenya. To me as an outsider they had the features I will consider somalian but many said they looked kenyan. Saw a picture of some rwandan women, they had somali features but I an sure a somali or rwandan can tell they are not somali.


My families languages include the atlantic languages, if we were classifying looks to languages, as onlia is doing with bantu I look nothing like the limba or fulani. In fact, I don't even know what I look like because no one else can ever tell. I'm bloody all over the place.

Well, you can use it to teach your government some wisdom. Imagine, the president's very own philosopher..

Are we to start preparing until new years?