Ŵatumbuka ŵose

Ŵatumbuka, ŵose.

[Steve Chikwiri @schiquiri]

Taking the MWK 1,000,000 prize for First Place🥇 :

Anthony Munthali(@Batumbuka_Bose) with the English X Tumbuka translator - A foundational platform for Bantu language translation.

We believe he has created a great foundation upon which a lot of great products could be built.

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

Free English to Chitumbuka dictionary app by me. Report any errors before we publish to playstore. https://t.co/PZ9LcTk8XO

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

Free English to Chitumbuka dictionary app by me. Report any errors before we publish to playstore. https://t.co/PZ9LcTk8XO

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

@FumbaniM @PempheroMphande Ŵanthu ŵakavuka😂 kweni tingambilaso malinga taplikana

[Pemphero W Mphande @PempheroMphande]

Madazi yakumasinda uku pano pakabanga Tumbuka Tuesday around 2017. Ili kumala mbu?

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

@mrrobot_xx Skoko ukulya yayi?

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

@DustJobby @CeoKayange1 What's the meaning?

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

@JShulu I get what you mean. But even this is a result of government policy favouring Chichewa. If government had deliberate policy allowing localization of the curriculum/media into every tongue, there would be no need for non-Tumbuka/non-Chewa speakers to abandon their language

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

Birds, Tumbuka names and corresponding English names

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

@khwiima Mukumanya

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

@NundweC When the accent takes over😂😂

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

galimoto yayeya galimoto iyo yayeya galimoto yinyake

[Sweetz @NundweC]

I want someone to say a car is carrying a car that is carrying another car. In CHITUMBUKA.

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

@mrrobot_xx Pulikilani waka awiske Uchizi😂

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

Nanga usiku ungakula uli, kutichenge nipela.

[TYLER🇲🇼🇬🇧 @amthatguytyler]

Any Tumbuka proverb you know?😂

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

@floneritchle Ku gonapamuhanya mwakhala?

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

@malawi_truth The issue is, when did we agree kuti Chichewa should be our "national language" did we have a referendum? Did parliament vote?

[Temwah @Temwah265]

Tribe : Tumbuka
Kids : one 💕
Age : twenty sumfin 🌻

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

Exciting news as Chitumbuka is finally added to Google Translate.

https://t.co/FTCVMdNktd

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

(4/4) other Africans telling us we have to tweet in English all the time because they feel excluded from the conversation. A language that took 400+ years to establish itself cannot be suddenly uprooted just so you can feel part of the conversation, not everything is about you.

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

(1/4) One thing we have to understand is that Chitumbuka has been the language of the Tumbuka people and surrounding people for longer than Malawi has been a country, 400+ plus years to be exact. Same as every other indigenous Malawian language. When you say Chichewa is our-

[ʏᴇꜱᴜ. @tiidrotafrikka2]

Komanso we have worked so hard to stop believing that Tumbukas are selfish ndeno izizi zomapanga ‘Tumbuka Space’ zi nduona ngati it’s bringing us back to what Kamuzu said about them/you🥱

[Ŵatumbuka ŵose @Batumbuka_Bose]

(3/4) of the school curriculum and out of media. Yet these are not seen a tribalistic policies, and no one fights them. But if those that understand/speak Tumbuka come together on an X space to speak in the language that comes most naturally to us, it is then tribalistic? Imagine