Author : Mvalo, Songiso
Publisher : Mzuni Press
ISBN 13 : 9990802432
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)
Book Synopsis Expression and Literature by : Mvalo, Songiso
Download or read book Expression and Literature written by Mvalo, Songiso and published by Mzuni Press. This book was released on 2015-12-12 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tumbuka is the dominant language in the Northern Region of Malawi. It is, however, also spoken in large pockets of Kasungu District in the Central Region and also in the Eastern Province of Zambia, and in Lundazi District in particular. Tonga, spoken in Nkhatabay and Nkhotakota, is like a cousin to Tumbuka with a close resemblance in their phonetics. Like other Bantu languages, Tumbuka is very expressive, but can also be very economic in communication or use of words, and yet clearly delivering the desired message. This can be done through the use of idioms, proverbs, or ideophones. This collection is on commonly used Tumbuka ideophones, where an ideophone shall mean "a word describing a situation, or a state of affairs, or a set of actions - all in one word." It is the intention of this collection to provoke both interest in the use of ideophones as a form of expression in literature and to expound on the richness of Bantu languages.