Umfana

Umfana ~libito  "boy"~noun


"Umfana" ngumuntfu wesilisa losemncane, ikakhulu losengakatsatsi; imvama noma angakatsatsi waze wengca emashumi lamatsatfu eminyaka ubese akasabi ngumfana.

"A boy is a young male who is not yet married; even if he is still not married, once he reaches 30 years he leaves the "boyhood" stage."

Umfana lomuhle uyatsandzeka.

"A handsome boy is adorable".

Introduction

Introducion


This blog is meant at preserving, enriching and teaching new speakers of the siSwati language. Basically it will be vocab; if a word is brought up it shall be given its word catergory, semantic meaning, syntatic usage and be shown in a sentence or an example of a speech.

The author(s) of this blog will use the privilledge of being native language speaker(s) and that of being one(s) who studied the language at a higher level.

Let me make an example of what I mean to do in this particular blog.

Luju-[ludzu]. "honey" /noun/

Luju ngulamanti lanongotelako latiyile latfolakala emakhekhebeni etinyosi.

"The sweet juice extracted from bees' cobs."

Luju [NP] lolumnandzi luba sebusika.

"Nice honey is found in winter".

I would like to take this opportunity and welcome everyone to the bank of the siSwati language. A lot more shall be done, and the Swazi will get to have multiple sources of their language as well.