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Among the Butbut Kalinga, whatok sa awi ("tattoos of the past") are distinguished from whatok sa sana ("tattoos of the present") or emben a whatok ("invented tattoos"). The former are culturally significant and are reserved for respected elders; while the latter are modern and used for decorative purposes only.
Awngi is used as Medium of Instruction from Grade 1 to 6 in primary schools of Awi Zone. It is written with an orthography based on the Ethiopian Script. Extra fidels used for Awngi are ጝ for the sound /ŋ/ and ቕ for the sound /q/. The fidel ፅ is used for /ts/, the fidel ኽ for the sound /ɢ/. Various aspects of the Awngi orthography are ...
AWI or Awi may refer to: Awi. the Awi people, an ethnic group in Ethiopia; Awi, Iran, a village in Zanjan Province, Iran; AWI.
Sa (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign; sa (hieroglyph), an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning "protection" Sa (kana) (さ and サ), characters (kana) in the two Japanese syllabaries; Saa language, spoken in Vanuatu; Sanskrit (ISO 639-1 code: sa), a historical Indo-Aryan language, the liturgical language of Hinduism
The same applies to Iscamtho. A female speaker would then be identified as either a gangster's girlfriend or a prostitute. For male speakers however, the language quickly acquired a meaning of city-slickness and street-wisdom, and mastering it was the proof that one knew the urban environment well enough to cope and not be threatened.
Alawites [b] are an Arab ethnoreligious group [16] who live primarily in the Levant region in West Asia and follow Alawism. [17] A sect of Islam that splintered from early Shia as a ghulat branch during the ninth century, [18] [19] [20] Alawites venerate Ali ibn Abi Talib, the "first Imam" in the Twelver school, as a manifestation of the divine essence.
The British explorer Charles Beke visited Chagni on its market day, 17 March 1842, and found the town inhabited mostly by "Shánkalas (the Nubas of the maps), who are negroes", who fled at his appearance out of fear: "fine tall muscular men, armed with spear and knife, hurrying away and hiding themselves among the bushes as I approached".
awi: Glottolog: aeky1238: Aekyom (Akium), also known as Awin (Aiwin), is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Phonology. The following table details the consonants ...