<OT> Ubuntu to all

Man-wai CHANG mwchang
Mon Jan 8 06:27:35 PST 2007


> a bit about what it means.  It turns out, almost all tribal languages in 
> Africa share a lot of the same words.  Their use and pronunciation varies a 
> bit between dialects, but UBUNTU means basically the same thing throughout 
> the whole continent.  Everybody in our refugee family had two names...  one 
> was French-derived, and the other was their African name and means something.  

I wonder how many African voices couldn't be represented in English....

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