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After a year, the mistress sees Mumu in the yard, and has the dog brought to her. Mumu reacts poorly to the mistress, baring her teeth. The following day, Gavrila is ordered to get rid of Mumu, whose barking disturbs the widow, and he has the footman, Stepan, ambush the dog behind Gerasim's back and sell her in the market.
Song for Mumu is the debut novel of Jamaican-born writer Lindsay Barrett.Written between April 1962 and October 1966 while the author lived in Frankfurt, Germany, Paris, France, and Accra, Ghana, [1] it was published in 1967 by Longmans in London, England, where Barrett participated in readings alongside writers associated with the Caribbean Artists Movement.
Mumu, a French film; Mumu (computer worm) (or Muma), isolated in 2003; Mumu (or momo), a ghost or monster in Philippine mythology; The UK band The KLF were previously known as The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu; Moo-Moo, a chain of buffet restaurants in Moscow, Russia; Mumu or Muma is the Old Irish for the province of Munster
Mumuye is by far the most populous of the Adamawa languages.It is spoken in northeastern Nigeria.It is classified in the Leko–Nimbari branch of Savanna languages, as Adamawa is no longer considered a valid family.
Rainmaking rod used by Mumuye. The Mumuye are people of the Taraba State, Nigeria.They speak the Mumuye language.They constitute the largest tribal group in Taraba State of Nigeria and form the predominant tribes found in Zing, Yorro, Jalingo, Ardo-Kola, Lau, Gassol, Bali and Gashaka, all of which are local government areas of the state.
It is presumed that Mummu's name is identical with the common Akkadian noun mummu, which can be translated as "creative power" [5] or "creative spirit". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It is a loanword from Sumerian , most likely derived from the word umun ("wisdom" or "skill"), though the latter was never used as a theonym. [ 3 ]
There are over 520 native languages spoken in Nigeria. [1] [2] [3] The official language is English, [4] [5] which was the language of Colonial Nigeria.The English-based creole Nigerian Pidgin – first used by the British and African slavers to facilitate the Atlantic slave trade in the late 17th century [6] – is the most common lingua franca, spoken by over 60 million people.
Obolo (or Andoni) is a major Cross River language of Nigeria. It is the most divergent language in the Lower Cross (LC) subgroup of Cross River, which is a branch of Benue-Congo. [ 2 ] Obolo is the indigenous name of a community in the eastern Delta of the River Niger , better known as Andoni (the origin of this latter name being uncertain). [ 3 ]