It has been shown that the Coptic/Sotho/Tswana language is essentially the Sumerian language. The Arabic language is very closely related to these languages, if not one of their major dialects. The word "Arab", in those languages means "one who boldly/loudly answers". The caller was the Anunnaki god "Ra", and the respondents became characterized as the Arabs, suggesting that those who refused to answer became non-Arabs.
But Kalanga language predates Sumerian/Coptic/Arab/Sotho/Tswana languages in ancient Egypt. So, if the people we today call Arabs existed in Kalanga-speaking ancient Egypt, as we know they did, what were they called?
I have been puzzling over this for a long time. The answer hit me like a meteor last weekend as I watched a documentary of African history on TV. The presenter's name is a Kalanga word - Badawi, and it means the same thing as "Arab". Let's unpack the phrase "Ba-da-whi". It is composed of a verb "ku da" meaning "to like/love", and the noun "whi" meaning "voice". Thus "Badawhi" means "those who like the voice".
And so Badawhi is what the Arabs were originally called, before the Sumerian/Coptic/Sotho/Tswana language hit the African shores. My apologies to Zeinab!
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