How do you say “cracking” in Yoruba (Benin)? The word is not polysemous, as in French … Sinatou Saka, journalist at RFI, evokes what cracks in her mother tongue and the reminiscences that the word brings up in it.
Sinatou cat is web journalist, she co -founded the collective IDEMI AFRICA who wishes to promote the presence of African languages on the Internet.
Everything cracks in French: the floor, the glacier, the wood, the fingers, the people…; In Yoruba, only people crack, joy or sadness …
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The series “Sounds to say” brings together six episodes of “listening to the world”, devoted to sound vocabulary in several languages. How do you translate in Yoruba, breath in Persian, whispers in Arabic, silence in Romanian, crash in Spanish or CRI in Japanese? And what meaning, common or different, carry these words in these languages? Listening to bilingual interlocutors, Monica Fantini offers a small poetic exploration of sounds and meaning.
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