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It is the language of the Mossi people, spoken by approximately 5 million people in Burkina, plus another 60, 000 + in Mali and Togo.
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He speaks your language too, for he is the grandson of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was strong and cunning.
When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.
it is a mystique, and their private language is rich in the multivalent ambiguities of sexual reference so that they dwell in a sexualized universe of discourse.
For this reason, too, their language is more forthright and earthy.
Jazz is the musical language of sex, the vocabulary of the orgasm ; ;
Of the longer pieces of the volume none is so memorable as `` Nameless And Immortal '', which at once took rank among the finest poems ever written in the Swedish language.
The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.
and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.
How literature does this, or for whom, is certainly not clear, but the content, form, and language of the `` message '', as well as the source, would all play differentiated parts in giving and molding a sense of purpose.
But to go from here to the belief that those more sensitive to metaphor and language will also be more sensitive to personal differences is too great an inferential leap.
Much of his earlier work was conceived in terms of a `` pseudo-anthropological '' myth reference, which is concerned with imaginary places and beings described in grandiloquent and travelogue-like language.
This, in more diplomatic language, is what Adlai Stevenson told the newspaper men of Latin America yesterday on behalf of the United States Government.
This is going to be a language lesson, and you can master it in a few minutes.
One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.
Some of the poetic cadence of the older version certainly is lost in the newer one, but almost anyone, with a fair knowledge of the English language, can understand the meaning, without the necessity of interpretation by a Biblical scholar.
but I am also a young, able and willing girl who wants to study the Chinese language but is not old enough.
A significant reduction in the voume of store information is thus realized, especially for a highly inflected language such as Russian.
Here again, in the written language it is possible to help the reader get his stresses right by using underlining or italics, but much of the time there is simply reliance on his understanding in the light of context.
It is clear that patterns of stress sometimes show construction unambiguously in the spoken language where without the help of context it would be ambiguous in the written.
In the first of these sentences if by is the complement of come and Tuesday is an adjunct of time equivalent to on Tuesday, there will be strong stress on by in the spoken language ; ;
is and Mossi
In the broad belt of rugged country between the northern boundaries of the Muslim-influenced state of Dagomba, and the southernmost outposts of the Mossi kingdoms ( of what is today the southern Burkina Faso and northern Ghana border ), were peoples who were not incorporated into the Dagomba entity.
Trade between Akan kingdoms and the Mossi kingdoms to the north ( of what is today the northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso border ) flowed through their homeland, subjecting them to Islamic influence, and to the depredations of these more powerful neighbors.
Within West Africa, shea butter from the Mossi plateau region of Burkina Faso has higher average stearic acid content, and is therefore harder than shea butter from other West African regions.
It is often difficult to distinguish between pre-Muslim practices and later practices, though Islamic law classified them and many other ethnicities of the region, ( Mossi, Gurma, Bobo, Busa and the Yoruba ) as being within the non-canon dar al-harb and consequently fair game for slave raids organized by merchants.
They got married and gave birth to the first authentic Mossi, Ouedraogo, who is recognised as the father of Mossi people.
As the Mossi people's history has been kept by oral tradition, it is impossible to assign precise dates for the period before colonization.
The highest position in Mossi society is that of the Emperor, who is given executive power.
Mossi society is divided vertically into two major segments: the descendants of the horsemen who conquered the peoples on the Mossi plateau are called the Nakomse (“ people of power ”), and all Mossi chiefs come exclusively from the Nakomse class.
Mossi people often identify with groups ; hence, at all levels, there is a hierarchy in Mossi society.
In everyday life, the family hierarchy is most important, and family is often directly associated with the notion of hierarchy for the Mossi.
Because of these beliefs, Mossi swear by their ancestors or by the land ; when they do so ( which only occurs in extreme situations ), it is more than symbolic — it is a call to imminent justice.
Family is also an essential cultural element of the Mossi, who hold collectivism in high regard.
As a result, all are expected to act in their family's name ; thus, the family is the smallest entity in the Mossi society.
Hierarchy is a fundamental concept for the Mossi and pervasive in their culture.
The Mossi language, Mòoré ( also Mooré, Moré, Moshi, Moore or More ) is one of two official regional languages of Burkina Faso, closely related and mutually intelligible with the Dagbani language spoken in northern Ghana.
It is mainly inhabited by Mossi, and has 131, 825 inhabitants, as of 2006.
Mogho Naba ( also Moro Naba ) is a title for king of the Mossi, an ethnic group in Burkina Faso.
is and people
Too many people think that the primary purpose of a higher education is to help you make a living ; ;
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
This is the only case in modern history of a people of Britannic origin submitting without continued struggle to what they view as foreign domination.
It is extraordinary that a people as proud and warlike as Southerners should have been as docile as they have.
Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.
The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.
Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.
Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.
Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.
It is curious that even centuries of repetition of the yearly cycle did not induce a sufficient degree of confidence to allow people to abandon the ceremonies of the winter solstice.
Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.
All his people ask for is no more war.
Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.
Since the air is a continuum, the network of communication remains intact regardless of the positions or motions of the points ( the people ) in the net.
The dweller at p is last to hear about a new cure, the slowest to announce to his neighbors his urgent distresses, the one who goes the farthest to trade, and the one with the greatest difficulty of all in putting over an idea or getting people to join him in a cooperative effort.
It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.
To experience them, it is not necessary for a people to be actively aware of what is happening to it.
Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
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