Friday 5 October 2007

Muzungu

For the attentive readers, it might look that we are not sure what the local word for white man is, we used mzungu, muzungu and bazungu. This is not due to fat fingers on the keyboard, nor to our lack of spelling, there is an explanation.

Mzungu is the kiswahili word for white person. Muzungu (the difference is hard to hear) is the kinyarwanda word for white person and bazungu is kinyarwanda for white people.


So now you know two words kinyarwanda.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

complicated! And I thought Dutch was bad! M xx

Anonymous said...

Three new languages to learn, your eally need to understand sign language too (fists/fingers) ohh cant wait to barter in hand language..

I hear you need to check shipping costs too!! he he

Anonymous said...

Oké we are ready. Teach us some more!
Do people understand swahili? (This is not to complicated.)