TriNewbieZA wrote:
Bone Idol wrote:
Funny.
Chri55 wrote:
Vote weak sauce. Most black people don't know what he's saying either.
So what? About 350 million Africans would. Certainly the brave citizens of Wakanda would (I assume you are familiar with the Marvel Atlas).
And now even lots of white people do. Some of us enjoy the joke. The rest are very welcome to be cranky.
False. There are roughly 20m Xhosa speakers in South Africa. Just because they are African and black doesn't mean they all speak the same language.
Not false.
About 20m speak Xhosa as their
first language. Many more as a second or third.
More importantly, Xhosa is just part of a continuum of Zunda languages with are mutually intelligible. If you speak Zulu, for example, you also speak Xhosa, with some dialectical differences.
Nguni languages are, in turn, part of the much larger group of Bantu languages spoken throughout most of Africa, with common grammar, structure and vocabulary.
There are about 400m speakers of Bantu languages. 350m is a reasonable estimate of how many could understand a simple sentence in Xhosa. The black population of Africa is 1.2 billion. I didn't say they all speak the same language.