Tracing the linguistic roots of terms �dombo� and �shaba�

Though in this column I have concentrated mostly on the linguistic roots of the Sotho-Tswana language group, Bantu languages comprise the larger language family wherein such language groups relate discernibly to each other and follow very similar grammar and syntax.

Kalanga, a language spoken principally by the Bakalanga people of southern Africa, is what we will be showcasing this week in light of two principal proto-terms, dombo and shaba.

A proto-term, according to my still-expanding, not-yet-published Dictionary of Protolanguage Terms, is a word or morpheme that harks back to a now-lost universal mother-language that, just as alleged by Genesis 11, we once all spoke as recently as the Neolithic era.

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