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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 25 Dec 2005 : 21:04:05
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Hi All, You can download N'ko 2006 Calender from the follwing URL. The calender is by Karamo Kabba Jammeh a Gambian living in Upsala, Sweden.
http://www.gambia.dk/downloads/karoolu.pdf
In any African language, did our lineage ancestors have no name for calendar?
If truth be told, in unaccountable years long before the arrival of foreign languages; namely Arabic, Portuguese, English and French languages, in Mande, our pedigree ancestors had had their own," calendar", names for days, week and months after their seasonal and day-to-day activities such as tillage; cutting grove, cleaning the field (piece of land) for farming, tilling seeds, hoeing weeds and then "Tereto" grain-harvest and other food cropes, and the times of hunting certain prey, fishing in certain lakes and the sea.
Mande people follow the lunar month, which begin on and after the new month has been sited in the sky. The lunar months does not correspond to the calendar months but compared with the fall earlier each year.
(Karamo Kabba Jammeh)
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Sister Omega
United Kingdom
2085 Posts |
Posted - 27 Dec 2005 : 17:41:50
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Hi Momodou,
thanks for posting in the link. I would like to congratualate Karamo Kabba Jammeh for producing such an important educational resource. It's good to see the resurrection of some much information that was hidden from us all about Africa is now reveaing itself.
By looking at the calender from left to right it suggests that sunday is the first day of the week followed by saturday. I thought there must be a reason for the monday morning feeling. Or do we read the calender from right to left?
Peace
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Momodou
Denmark
11840 Posts |
Posted - 27 Dec 2005 : 19:15:36
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quote:
Originally posted by Sister Omega
By looking at the calender from left to right it suggests that sunday is the first day of the week followed by saturday. I thought there must be a reason for the monday morning feeling. Or do we read the calender from right to left?
Peace
Sister Omega
The calender is read from right to left similar to Arabic but its not Arabic. The N'Ko written language contains 26 alphabetic characters, including 7 vowels, 18 consonant, and the N' Character which is neither Vowel or Consonant. The language also contains 10 numeric characters, and it is written from right to left.
There is a website at: http://www.fakoli.net/ dedicated to N'ko. |
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