Post by NorrinRaddOfZennla on Nov 4, 2017 20:42:18 GMT
Names and places are a given: Wakanda, T'Challa, T'Chaka, Dora Milaje, Vibranium, etc are becoming more well known to the general public. The language used in Wakanda is Xhosa (the clicking language) and it would be refreshing if a word or phrase got dropped into popular MCU culture from BP the movie. So far there is: Wakanda Forever!! 
Back in the days of print (you know those funny books) certain characters even had a catchphrase: "Great Caesar's Ghost", Hulk Smash, It's Clobberin Time, By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth, Flame on, For Asgard!!, Avengers Assemble, Sweet Christmas, Up Up and Away, etc
Here are a few words that have made their way into English from various African nations/tribes:
Banjo – probably Bantu mbanza
Bwana – from Swahili, meaning an important person or safari leader
Chimpanzee – loaned in the 18th century from a Bantu language, possibly Kivili ci-mpenzi.[1]
Goober – possibly from Bantu (Kikongo and Kimbundu nguba)
Gumbo – from Bantu (Kimbundu ngombo meaning "okra")
Impala – from Zulu im-pala
Jumbo – from Swahili (jambo or jumbe or from Kongo nzamba "elephant")
Kalimba
Kwanzaa – recent coinage (Maulana Karenga 1965) as the name of a "specifically African-American holiday", abstracted from a Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning "first fruits [of the harvest]".
Macaque – from Bantu makaku through Portuguese and French
Mamba – from Zulu or Swahili mamba
Safari – from Swahili travel, ultimately from Arabic
Tilapia – Possibly a latinization "thiape", the Tswana word for fish.[2]
Tsetse – from a Bantu language (Tswana tsetse, Luhya tsiisi)
Ubuntu – Nguni term for "mankind; humanity", in South Africa since the 1980s also used capitalized, Ubuntu, as the name of a philosophy or ideology of "human kindness" or "humanism".
Vuvuzela – musical instrument, name of Zulu or Nguni origin
Zebra – of unknown origin, recorded since c. 1600, possibly from a Congolese language, or alternatively from Amharic.
zombie – likely from West African (compare Kikongo zumbi "fetish", Kimbundu nzambi "god"), but alternatively derived from Spanish sombra "shade, ghost".
Wikipedia referenced:
Back in the days of print (you know those funny books) certain characters even had a catchphrase: "Great Caesar's Ghost", Hulk Smash, It's Clobberin Time, By the Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth, Flame on, For Asgard!!, Avengers Assemble, Sweet Christmas, Up Up and Away, etc
Here are a few words that have made their way into English from various African nations/tribes:
Banjo – probably Bantu mbanza
Bwana – from Swahili, meaning an important person or safari leader
Chimpanzee – loaned in the 18th century from a Bantu language, possibly Kivili ci-mpenzi.[1]
Goober – possibly from Bantu (Kikongo and Kimbundu nguba)
Gumbo – from Bantu (Kimbundu ngombo meaning "okra")
Impala – from Zulu im-pala
Jumbo – from Swahili (jambo or jumbe or from Kongo nzamba "elephant")
Kalimba
Kwanzaa – recent coinage (Maulana Karenga 1965) as the name of a "specifically African-American holiday", abstracted from a Swahili phrase matunda ya kwanza, meaning "first fruits [of the harvest]".
Macaque – from Bantu makaku through Portuguese and French
Mamba – from Zulu or Swahili mamba
Safari – from Swahili travel, ultimately from Arabic
Tilapia – Possibly a latinization "thiape", the Tswana word for fish.[2]
Tsetse – from a Bantu language (Tswana tsetse, Luhya tsiisi)
Ubuntu – Nguni term for "mankind; humanity", in South Africa since the 1980s also used capitalized, Ubuntu, as the name of a philosophy or ideology of "human kindness" or "humanism".
Vuvuzela – musical instrument, name of Zulu or Nguni origin
Zebra – of unknown origin, recorded since c. 1600, possibly from a Congolese language, or alternatively from Amharic.
zombie – likely from West African (compare Kikongo zumbi "fetish", Kimbundu nzambi "god"), but alternatively derived from Spanish sombra "shade, ghost".
Wikipedia referenced:
