#kunama

Kunama Queen🥰

I am volunteering with a refugee organization here in my city and one of the problems we are facing is communicating with refugees who speak little to no English while we are doing our volunteer projects. I am going to be creating a video series where native speakers will teach very basic words and phrases to non-native speakers of the previously listed languages. In these videos, native speakers will be saying these phrases at native speed and then slowed down so that non-native speakers can repeat and learn. We will be teaching phrases such as “nice to meet you”, “how are you”, “my name is ___”, etc. This will not be a full teaching course.

I wanted to do this because I feel like the refugees will feel more welcome here if everyone can communicate with each other, even if it’s just saying hello and goodbye to each other in their language every time we work together. :D Plus, it’s always fun to learn a little bit of another language!

If you speak any of these languages, please translate the following phrases and write the phrases with the latin alphabet as well (if you are able to!) as these mini-courses will be geared toward native English speaking volunteers. In addition, if there are any other phrases that you think are fun or culturally relevant or what have you, feel free to add those in as well. :)

Welcome

Hello

Nice to meet you

How are you?

I am fine

What is your name?

My name is ___

Yes

No

Let’s go

Are you okay?

See you later

Goodbye

Okay

The Brolga, popular with the mares, as always. 

Analysis of classic genetic markers and DNA polymorphisms by Excoffier et al. (1987) found that the Sara are most closely related to the Kunama people of Eritrea.

Both populations speak languages from the Nilo-Saharan family. They are also similar to West African populations, but biologically distinct from the surrounding Cushitic and Ethiopian Semitic Afro-Asiatic-speaking groups

The Sara people are a Central Sudanic ethnic group native to southern Chad, the northwestern areas of the Central African Republic, and the southern border of North Sudan. They speak the Sara languages which are a part of the Central Sudanic language family. They are also the largest ethnic group in Chad.

You’re going to have to suspend all disbelief for this one, because Thowra summons magical lightning to break the fence, and Golden and Kunama escape, instead of being fried.