This is Jules with this year’s banana harvest. You can tell when a hand of bananas is ripe because it gets so heavy it touches the ground. We’ll eat some and sell the rest in the local market.
Archives for the month of: December, 2023
A huge grasshopper appeared on the veranda this morning and stayed a while. The Kabiye word for it is nakaʋ, pronounced with a high-low-high tone pattern. It’s one of the six animal keywords I use to teach Kabiye tone. The others are fetiye (toad: high), kozoŋa (hare: low), kpaŋaɣ (donkey: high-low), kpeluu (sparrowhawk: low-high) and kɩlakʊ (monitor lizard: low-high-low).
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