Many of you know of Google Translate. Google Translate uses Muziki for Music in Swahilil, and ngoma = dance.
ngoma, is listed as both drum, and dance in my kijitabu** (little book)/ kitabu = book!, Teach yourself Swahili by D.V. Perrott (English Universities Press Ltd), third impression 1957, The Foreword is by A. B. Hellier, Canon and Chancellor of Zanzibar. in Google Translate: goma = strike; and in my kiitabu (book), piga is (to) strike/ to hit. Of course strike in English also means striking off work, and so on. ++++++++++++++++ RELATED song = wimbo singing and dancing (to sing and dance) = kuimba na kucheza. singing, dancing and drumming = kuimba, kucheza, na ngoma. ++++++++++++++++ OFF TOPIC. But I found this interesting. **REALLY COOL to see how largeness and smallness (augmentatives and dimunitives) is shown in Swahili. Smallness “by bringing the noun into the KITU class, and largeness by bringing it into the MA class.” ndege = a bird; kidege = a little bird; -dege(ma) = large bird mfuko = a bag; kifuko = a little bag; -fuko(ma) = “If noun in KITU class, or if, without its prefic, it has only one syllable or begins with a vowel, ji or j is inserted after the ki: kitabu = book; kijitabu = little book mji = town; kijiji = village mto = river; kijito = stream mwiko = wooden spoon; kijiko = small spoon small = -dogo. In Google Translate for small music ndogo muziki; small dance = ndogo ngoma!! For those who know Swahili this would be an useful tool. And it helps to put in simple sentences. ++++++++++++ venantius j pinto > From: "Mervyn & Elsie Maciel" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Goanet] Swahili word for music > > > Manuel Tavares wrote: > > Muziki is a common name for Music in Swahili. Another term is Goma. > > My own feeling is MUZIKI is the right word for music in Swahili > Goma, or rightly speaking, NGOMA refers ,more to dance? > > Correct me if I'm wrong. > > > Mervyn(M > > > ------------------------------ >
