Talk:Tumbuka language
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Perhaps some or all of the vocabulary guide should be in a Wikitravel phrasebook instead of here? - Trezatium 22:24, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
- I concur. Some sample sentences are fine, but a vocabulary guide is not really encyclopedic. It's a tonal language by the way, and tone isn't even marked here. — mark ✎ 07:34, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
- I'm new to Wikipedia and just thought I'd add this because I've not been able to find any basic Tumbuka vocab guide elsewhere on the net. Wikitravel has phrasebooks for other languages but not Tumbuka as yet. Perhaps someone would like to create one (and revert this article back to the original stub)? As for the tonal nature of the language, I understand there are many versions of written Tumbuka, but don't know which is recommended as standard. The spellings used here are those taught to me in the Eastern Province of Zambia. As it happens I'm leaving for the area again later today, so unfortunately won't be able to work on this myself until next month. But if you're interested in making a proper encyclopedic article then one of the external links has some good historical information. - Trezatium 13:40, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
- Since my departure's been delayed for a few days, I've made the changes myself. The vocabulary guide is now in Wikitravel, and this article is now a stub once more. - Trezatium 13:37, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
- I'm new to Wikipedia and just thought I'd add this because I've not been able to find any basic Tumbuka vocab guide elsewhere on the net. Wikitravel has phrasebooks for other languages but not Tumbuka as yet. Perhaps someone would like to create one (and revert this article back to the original stub)? As for the tonal nature of the language, I understand there are many versions of written Tumbuka, but don't know which is recommended as standard. The spellings used here are those taught to me in the Eastern Province of Zambia. As it happens I'm leaving for the area again later today, so unfortunately won't be able to work on this myself until next month. But if you're interested in making a proper encyclopedic article then one of the external links has some good historical information. - Trezatium 13:40, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Some text transferred here from Wikitravel
I copied over some descriptive material from the Wikitravel page for this language. It's relevant but sounds anecdotal, so should probably have some citation and maybe a rewrite. Not clear to me from the history if this was transferred over to Wikitravel with the phrases by Trezatium.
Some of the phonetic stuff could come back - ultimately, so long as there is "no standard"- a comparative orthography table would be nice here too (as well on the PanAfrican L10n wiki for localization work). Actually this also raises the question of what orthography they are using over on the Tumbuka edition http://tum.wikipedia.org/ ? --A12n 00:32, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
- I wrote the paragraph about "substantial differences" based on what I'd heard from Malawians (anecdotal), as well as various academic articles I found on the web (which appear to be reliable). One of these is the fourth external link (History of the Tumbuka language in Malawi), which contains a lot of interesting info that could help to extend the article. Trezatium 21:12, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
