Saturday, 6 April 2013

Xhosa names for some cities and towns

You sound REALLY Xhosa if you can refer to a place with its proper Xhosa name - for all of them I am putting E- (or sometimes KU-) in front which means IN, AT, TO, FROM:

 Alice eDikeni
Beaufort West eBhobhofolo
Butterworth eGcuwa
Cape Town eKapa
Durban eThekwini
East London eMonti
Graaf-Reinet eRhafu
Grahamstown eRhini
Johannesburg eGoli/eRhawutini
Keiskammahoek kuQoboqobo
King William's Town eQonce
Pietermaritzburg eMgungundlovu
Port Elizabeth eBhayi
Pretoria ePitoli
Uitenhage eTinarha

So wena mfundi, uvela phi? So you student, where do you come from?

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