Ikalanga language - a blessing and a curse

 Ikalanga language, being the ultimate old language, can be both a blessing and a curse; a blessing in that through it you unlock history all the way from humanity’s “creation”, and a curse because when you encounter a “we”, you don’t know if it is “we humans” or “we gods”! Only in extremely rare cases are you able to deduce that it is the latter, i.e. “we gods”. Such is the phrase “Titan/Titana”, which means “(we) boarding or embarking”. The phrase is derived from the Kalanga infinitive verb “ku tana”. Because humanity has never been to Saturn’s moon Titan, we can safely assume that whoever was boarding a vehicle or spaceship there was certainly not human, therefore it must have been a god!

Here on mother Earth however, we simply cannot tell, because both we humans and the gods have lived, and possibly continue to live, together. One such Kalanga verb is “ku wana”, meaning “to find or to obtain”. The Chinese island of Taiwan carries a Kalanga name: Taiwana. Taiwana means “We have found it, or we have obtained it”. I have no idea who “we” are, or what “it” is! The “we” could be just a group of the Chinese people, and the “it” could be the island itself. But given that some scientists’ research has revealed that there is a huge magnet inside the earth whose pole is somewhere around Beijing, it could be that the “we” are the gods and “it” is that magnet below Beijing!

Still on “ku wana”, there is a tribe in the North West of Botswana, who call themselves “BaTawana”, a Kalanga phrase meaning “those whom we found”. The Sumerian/Arab/Sotho/Tswana speakers in our country have, as usual, wrongfully interpreted the name Batawana to be Sumerian for “people of the young lion”. My belief that the name is Kalanga has been buttressed by research done by an Australian university, which reveals that the earliest homo species were found in that part of swampy western Botswana. This really makes sense. Before Homo sapiens (tsha-piens) was developed by the gods and given the skill to dig for water (ku tsha), any homo species would have lived, like all other wild animals, around the swamps! That would explain why the gods called them “Batawana”, meaning “those that we found”. And so the “we” in this case evidently means “we, the gods”.