Giriama

I am embarking upon a project to learn Giriama, a Bantu language of Kenya.

If you are interested, you can follow along at teachyourselfgiriama.blogspot.co.uk.

Misunderstandings and borrowings

The history of language contact is the history of thinking that what other people said was the answer to the question that you asked.

"Thus were immortalised in generations of atlases such geographical oddities as Just A Mountain, I Don't Know, What? and, of course, Your Finger You Fool." ― Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

Here are a few borrowed words showing that whoever appropriated it didn't really understand the language they got it from...