OpenGeofiction
Okay - I’m officially taking it on. Wow!
But now Enkalang sounds too Malay to me,
Kalango? Agolide? (Chichewa for “golden”) Zabaria…?
I’ve decided main native language will be “Chechiwa”: largely parallel to rw Chichewa.
Digging into my Chichewa dictionary tomorrow!
Discussion
Comment from Timoteosg on 2 September 2020 at 09:31
You shouldn’t call it Chechiwa, that’s too similar to Chichewa. But I like Kalango.
Comment from Greg_Rose on 2 September 2020 at 23:50
Really? I figured since the other languages were named close to their rw counterpart…
No matter - I’ve decided to meld Chichewa and Shona together as the native language: “Chichona”. They’re both Bantu languages and closer to one another than Chichewa and Lingala. AND Google translate has BOTH available, to my surprise.
And yes - i think I’m officially going with Kalango.
Comment from Timoteosg on 4 September 2020 at 19:05
Still, that’s not very original, Maybe the name of the language should be “our language”, “Kalangian” or something.