The Bemba language, ChiBemba (also Cibemba, Ichibemba, Icibemba and Chiwemba), is a major Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people and as a lingua franca by about 18 related ethnic groups, including the Bisa people of Mpika and Lake Bangweulu, and to a lesser extent in Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Botswana. Including all its dialects, Bemba is the most spoken indigenous language in Zambia. The Lamba language is closely related and some people consider it a dialect of Bemba.
History
The Bemba people are descendants of inhabitants of the Luba kingdom, which existed in what is now the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and in north-eastern Zambia.
Bemba is one of the most widely spoken languages in Zambia, spoken by many people who live in urban areas, and is one of Zambia's seven recognized regional languages. Zambia's first president, Kenneth Kaunda, though Malawian by descent, was raised in a Bemba-speaking community, and two of the four Zambian president since have been Bemba-speakers. The third president, Levi Mwanawassa, was a Lenje, who belong to the Bantu Botatwe [three people] ethnic grouping that comprises the Tonga-Lenje-Ila peoples. The Fourth President, Rupiah Bwezani Banda was a Chewa from the Eastern Province. In the years after the MMD took power in 1991, it was accused numerous times of promoting Bemba over other regional languages in the country. Although the lingua franca of the Zambian capital Lusaka is a dialect of Nyanja language, it incorporates numerous Bemba words and expressions.
A "Bemba" language of South Kivu was listed in Ethnologue 17 as ISO code [bmy]. However, the name, Kinyabemba, is the language of the Banyabemba, one of the tribes that speak Buyu. (It is not the Bemba language of Zambia.) "Songa" [sgo] is another Buyu-speaking tribe rather than a distinct language. "Buya" [byy] is unidentified, but may be a typo for Buyu. The codes were retired in 2014.
Words in different African languages Bemba, Chewa, Xhosa
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Similarities between the languages of LUGANDA and BEMBA.
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KAPUTU BEMBA TEACHER INTRO
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Bemba
When she hears sound of a Kalindula Tune ......
There is always that crazy friend with a crazy dance from the rest we know of
Tag someone to come get their 'Bululu' (Relative) from this dance
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Bemba Lesson 12 Self Introduction
KitweOnline.com presents Bemba Lesson 12
INTRODUCING YOURSELF
Hello - Mwapoleni mukwai
How are you? - Muli shani
I'm fine, thanks - Ndifye bwino mukwai
My name is Jane - Nine Jane
What is your name? - Nimwe bani ishina?
I have come from Kitwe - Nafuma ku Kitwe
I have come from London - Nafuma ku London
I live in London - Njikala mu London
English-Bemba Dictionary (ebook) now available on Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/158704
published: 17 Jul 2012
Learn to Speak Bemba Lesson 1: Greetings
Learn to Speak Bemba. Lesson 1: Greetings
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Words covered in this lesson:
Hello: Shani
How are you (plural or respect): Muli shani
Welcome: Mwaiseni
Excuse me: Njeleleniko
My name is: Ishina lyandi nine
Visitor: Umweni
Can you help me please? Bushe kuti mwanagafwilishako?
I don't speak Bemba: Nshaishibisha ukulanda icibemba
Bemba is a language spoken in Northern Zambia. The work that OMNI does in Zambia is predominantly around Ndola. OMNI is a non-profit that provides education, medical care, and community improvements to eight neighboring townships around Ndola.
This is the first in a multi-part series that teaches travel phrases useful for non-profit visitors traveling to Ndola.
When she hears sound of a Kalindula Tune ......
There is always that crazy friend with a crazy dance from the rest we know of
Tag someone to come get their 'B...
When she hears sound of a Kalindula Tune ......
There is always that crazy friend with a crazy dance from the rest we know of
Tag someone to come get their 'Bululu' (Relative) from this dance
When she hears sound of a Kalindula Tune ......
There is always that crazy friend with a crazy dance from the rest we know of
Tag someone to come get their 'Bululu' (Relative) from this dance
email: [email protected]
Learn the most common Bemba words and phrases 🔺
🔸Repeat the words after the speaker🔸
#75words
#learnbemba
#bemba
#Zambianlanguage...
email: [email protected]
Learn the most common Bemba words and phrases 🔺
🔸Repeat the words after the speaker🔸
#75words
#learnbemba
#bemba
#Zambianlanguage
#travelingtoZambia
#bembalesson
#kidslearnbemba
#zambiankidsindiasporalearnbemba
#UsefulphrasesinBemba
#Bembaphrases
#Bembawords
#bembadictionary
#zambiansindiaspora
#Zambiankidsindiaspora
#bembayoutube
#Zambia
#ichibemba
email: [email protected]
Learn the most common Bemba words and phrases 🔺
🔸Repeat the words after the speaker🔸
#75words
#learnbemba
#bemba
#Zambianlanguage
#travelingtoZambia
#bembalesson
#kidslearnbemba
#zambiankidsindiasporalearnbemba
#UsefulphrasesinBemba
#Bembaphrases
#Bembawords
#bembadictionary
#zambiansindiaspora
#Zambiankidsindiaspora
#bembayoutube
#Zambia
#ichibemba
KitweOnline.com presents Bemba Lesson 12
INTRODUCING YOURSELF
Hello - Mwapoleni mukwai
How are you? - Muli shani
I'm fine, thanks - Ndifye bwino mukwai
My name ...
KitweOnline.com presents Bemba Lesson 12
INTRODUCING YOURSELF
Hello - Mwapoleni mukwai
How are you? - Muli shani
I'm fine, thanks - Ndifye bwino mukwai
My name is Jane - Nine Jane
What is your name? - Nimwe bani ishina?
I have come from Kitwe - Nafuma ku Kitwe
I have come from London - Nafuma ku London
I live in London - Njikala mu London
English-Bemba Dictionary (ebook) now available on Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/158704
KitweOnline.com presents Bemba Lesson 12
INTRODUCING YOURSELF
Hello - Mwapoleni mukwai
How are you? - Muli shani
I'm fine, thanks - Ndifye bwino mukwai
My name is Jane - Nine Jane
What is your name? - Nimwe bani ishina?
I have come from Kitwe - Nafuma ku Kitwe
I have come from London - Nafuma ku London
I live in London - Njikala mu London
English-Bemba Dictionary (ebook) now available on Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/158704
Learn to Speak Bemba. Lesson 1: Greetings
Brought to you by OMNI omnimissions.com
Words covered in this lesson:
Hello: Shani
How are you (plural or respect): ...
Learn to Speak Bemba. Lesson 1: Greetings
Brought to you by OMNI omnimissions.com
Words covered in this lesson:
Hello: Shani
How are you (plural or respect): Muli shani
Welcome: Mwaiseni
Excuse me: Njeleleniko
My name is: Ishina lyandi nine
Visitor: Umweni
Can you help me please? Bushe kuti mwanagafwilishako?
I don't speak Bemba: Nshaishibisha ukulanda icibemba
Bemba is a language spoken in Northern Zambia. The work that OMNI does in Zambia is predominantly around Ndola. OMNI is a non-profit that provides education, medical care, and community improvements to eight neighboring townships around Ndola.
This is the first in a multi-part series that teaches travel phrases useful for non-profit visitors traveling to Ndola.
Learn to Speak Bemba. Lesson 1: Greetings
Brought to you by OMNI omnimissions.com
Words covered in this lesson:
Hello: Shani
How are you (plural or respect): Muli shani
Welcome: Mwaiseni
Excuse me: Njeleleniko
My name is: Ishina lyandi nine
Visitor: Umweni
Can you help me please? Bushe kuti mwanagafwilishako?
I don't speak Bemba: Nshaishibisha ukulanda icibemba
Bemba is a language spoken in Northern Zambia. The work that OMNI does in Zambia is predominantly around Ndola. OMNI is a non-profit that provides education, medical care, and community improvements to eight neighboring townships around Ndola.
This is the first in a multi-part series that teaches travel phrases useful for non-profit visitors traveling to Ndola.
When she hears sound of a Kalindula Tune ......
There is always that crazy friend with a crazy dance from the rest we know of
Tag someone to come get their 'Bululu' (Relative) from this dance
email: [email protected]
Learn the most common Bemba words and phrases 🔺
🔸Repeat the words after the speaker🔸
#75words
#learnbemba
#bemba
#Zambianlanguage
#travelingtoZambia
#bembalesson
#kidslearnbemba
#zambiankidsindiasporalearnbemba
#UsefulphrasesinBemba
#Bembaphrases
#Bembawords
#bembadictionary
#zambiansindiaspora
#Zambiankidsindiaspora
#bembayoutube
#Zambia
#ichibemba
KitweOnline.com presents Bemba Lesson 12
INTRODUCING YOURSELF
Hello - Mwapoleni mukwai
How are you? - Muli shani
I'm fine, thanks - Ndifye bwino mukwai
My name is Jane - Nine Jane
What is your name? - Nimwe bani ishina?
I have come from Kitwe - Nafuma ku Kitwe
I have come from London - Nafuma ku London
I live in London - Njikala mu London
English-Bemba Dictionary (ebook) now available on Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/158704
Learn to Speak Bemba. Lesson 1: Greetings
Brought to you by OMNI omnimissions.com
Words covered in this lesson:
Hello: Shani
How are you (plural or respect): Muli shani
Welcome: Mwaiseni
Excuse me: Njeleleniko
My name is: Ishina lyandi nine
Visitor: Umweni
Can you help me please? Bushe kuti mwanagafwilishako?
I don't speak Bemba: Nshaishibisha ukulanda icibemba
Bemba is a language spoken in Northern Zambia. The work that OMNI does in Zambia is predominantly around Ndola. OMNI is a non-profit that provides education, medical care, and community improvements to eight neighboring townships around Ndola.
This is the first in a multi-part series that teaches travel phrases useful for non-profit visitors traveling to Ndola.
The Bemba language, ChiBemba (also Cibemba, Ichibemba, Icibemba and Chiwemba), is a major Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people and as a lingua franca by about 18 related ethnic groups, including the Bisa people of Mpika and Lake Bangweulu, and to a lesser extent in Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Botswana. Including all its dialects, Bemba is the most spoken indigenous language in Zambia. The Lamba language is closely related and some people consider it a dialect of Bemba.
History
The Bemba people are descendants of inhabitants of the Luba kingdom, which existed in what is now the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and in north-eastern Zambia.
Bemba is one of the most widely spoken languages in Zambia, spoken by many people who live in urban areas, and is one of Zambia's seven recognized regional languages. Zambia's first president, Kenneth Kaunda, though Malawian by descent, was raised in a Bemba-speaking community, and two of the four Zambian president since have been Bemba-speakers. The third president, Levi Mwanawassa, was a Lenje, who belong to the Bantu Botatwe [three people] ethnic grouping that comprises the Tonga-Lenje-Ila peoples. The Fourth President, Rupiah Bwezani Banda was a Chewa from the Eastern Province. In the years after the MMD took power in 1991, it was accused numerous times of promoting Bemba over other regional languages in the country. Although the lingua franca of the Zambian capital Lusaka is a dialect of Nyanja language, it incorporates numerous Bemba words and expressions.
They called the place Shinkolobwe, a word in the local Bemba language for an apple with juice so acidic it burns. History proved the name prescient. Shinkolobwe remains the world’s richest known uranium deposit ...World ... .
Humour and pathos go hand in hand in Rungano Nyoni’s award-winning second feature ... Nyoni’s Zambia-set film, using the Bemba language and English, deftly juggles humour with pathos, domestic drama with surreal fantasy flourishes.
She puts the glam in glamma ... The octogenarian has 119,000 followers on her Instagram handle @legendary_glamma ... When she presented the idea to her grandmother, or “Mbuya” in the Bemba language, Chola obliged ... ‘OK ... ....
It's been a great day for glimpses into exciting new international films ...The story of On Becoming A Guinea Fowl is told in both English and Bemba, a language spoken primarily in northeastern Zambia ... "She doesn't look like someone who's seen a corpse ... .
On September 18, MPB shared that the BTC diploma workbook will “spread further in Zambia” after another organization announced the translation to the Nyanja, Bemba, Tonga, and Lozi languages.
The final, searing shot of Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a convergence of everything that’s come before ... She revived it through intensive research, interviewing survivors in Zambia for her Bemba and English-language screenplay ... .
... in a form-fitting purple dress and with a flurry of dark auburn hair, she looked a long way from the hut in Zambia (she is fluent in the Bantu language Bemba) where she once lived for her research.
Map of Zambia. Zambia, unlike most of its neighbours, has managed to avoid the war and upheaval that has marked much of Africa's post-colonial history, earning itself a reputation for political stability ...FACTS. Capital ... Languages. English, Nyanja, Bemba.
... the Zambian border, some of it bought at Kasumbalesa’s market stalls, where French- and Swahili-speaking Congolese use sign language to bargain with sellers who speak English, Bemba or Gujarati.
... website, it meets at Scallywags a (restaurant accepting bitcoin) and one of the members started a Bitcoin podcast in the local Bemba language on our recently-launched BTCPodcasting platform.Zimbabwe.
The Croatian was blaspheming in his native language, which the umpire didn’t understand ... Quiz question ... Thinking quickly, Chiluba asked the Queen if he might be permitted to say grace in Bemba, the language of his people. Of course, replied the monarch.
... relation to the same broadcast and, in the local Bemba language, said “life is short” and that he would send political operatives to “sort out” the journalist, according to a recording of that call.
There is a saying in the Bemba language, “Zambia ku chalo”, which means “Zambia to the world” ...Inspired by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles, Zamrock often combined Bantu-language lyrics with fuzzy guitar riffs and wah-wah effects.