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Shekgalagari is a small language in the eyes of the world, only about 65,000 speakers. But it is still diverse, with 5 distinct dialects spoken in Botswana. These are regional dialects, some of which are separated by big distances and some small. What is spoken in Hukuntsi is not always the same as what is…

Even though Shekgalagari and Setswana are distinct languages from each other, they are both related. And almost everyone who speaks Shekgalagari also speaks Setswana on a daily basis. So there is bound to be some overlap between the languages; they share some words and grammar characteristics, but they have many of their own words and…

At the start of our checking session today, we started by talking about the orthography (writing system) that we have chosen to use in Shekgalagari. It actually sparked an argument among the people present as to how we should be spelling certain words. There’s a lot of influence from other languages on Shekgalagari and so…

In preparation for the reviewer’s workshop this week, the members of the advisory committee for the Shekgalagari project met today. We’ll be reviewing Revelation this week, so there will be lots to discuss; it’s a tricky book! One unexpected thing that came up in our discussions today came from Revelation 6, where the 4 horses…