On 11 June 2011 22:43, alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> wrote: > > I gave a recycled Ubuntu PC to someone yesterday, who arrived with a black > (English born) friend. The friend was interested and had simply not been > aware of anything like Ubuntu, only Windows. They had enough African > knowledge to know what the ubuntu philosophy meant. They even knew that my > anglicised pronunciation was wrong (You buntu) and were a bit amused......
AIUI, it's really "úbúntú". The languages isiZulu and isiXhosa are tonal: each syllable should be pronounced with a rising tone with the emphasis on the middle one. By a rising tone, imagine saying it in a questioning manner, or the way a young Australian might say it. Very roughly, in something like English orthography: ooh-BOON-too. Linux, of course, is lee-nucks or lynn-ucks, *not* line-ucks. And if you think that's hard, the "xh" in the name part - Xhosa - of isiXhosa is pronounced with a lateral tongue click - think of the noise used to encourage a horse. -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
