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Yes interesting elephant in Japanese is almost the same word in Shona (a bantu language of Zimbabwe) nzou vs zou and sound very similar. Many words have similar
by slaser79 2y ago
Yes interesting elephant in Japanese is almost the same word in Shona (a bantu language of Zimbabwe) nzou vs zou and sound very similar. Many words have similar structures. Many shona names could be mistaken to be Japanese.
- bouncycastle 2y agozou is actually the onyomi (Chinese origin) reading. I guess the sound has been morphed since Japanese doesn't have tones like Chinese.