Round 30

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Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Let's go to mama Africa!
haba na haba, huzaja kibaba
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo About Google Images: I am not sure how Malin Elisabeth Nilsson feel about it, but I twice did it before with Wikipedia (during the chicken at home is like lentils Urdu proverb)
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson Arief Wibowo: No worries! Its fine :) As long as you dont use google transelate :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Okay, go forth, do translate "haba na haba, huzaja kibaba" :D
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter Eurovision!!
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Vincensiu Denis, yes :D
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter I know exactly what it means because I luuuuuuvvv Eurovision. but let's see how many Europeans did watch Eurovision. I give it a miss this time
Billy James Brightraven
Billy James Brightraven I remember this :P Norway wasn't it?
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo But I have known this before the Eurovision, because I once told my colleagues (including few guys speaking this language) that there's a certain proverb in Indonesia, and they told us we had the similar proverb too. And guess what, the rhyming structure of the Swahili and Indonesian proverb are exactly the same
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Billy James Brightraven: Yes, Norway, though "na" is missing from Eurovision stage...
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter do you mean sedikit-bukit?
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Vincensiu Denis, yup. I suspect the African proverb is influenced or influencing the Indonesian one
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo I have to go out for dinner. Vincensiu Denis, I am passing back the favor, you be the judge to this :)
Vinicius Freitas
Vinicius Freitas Tu es ce que tu manges ! ^^
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson Im afraid you are a little late Vinicius :/
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson Try again, there´s a new one! :)
Vinicius Freitas
Vinicius Freitas Oh, no problem! I'll try :D
Vinicius Freitas
Vinicius Freitas I'm not finding the last one :O
Billy James Brightraven
Billy James Brightraven Quoting Arief Wibowo, 7 hours ago:

” Okay, go forth, do translate "haba na haba, huzaja kibaba" ”
Billy James Brightraven
Billy James Brightraven We've moved onwards from Swedish. :P
Christos Gialias
Christos Gialias lol swahili maybe?
Vinicius Freitas
Vinicius Freitas "May there be in the house, a red kebab" D: Of course i have no clue of what that means.

Estou com uma gripe terrível!
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Hahahaha, Vincensiu Denis, go forth! (since you said you knew what it meant)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Χρηστος Γιαλιας: yuppie
Maleen Schlüter
Maleen Schlüter I just start some wild guessing: 'na' must be a word that can be omitted, so maybe 'and'? But then again, it would not make much sense to connect the same word by 'and', would it? Maybe 'for' (as in 'an eye for an eye')?
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith Time to learn Swahili, I'll get back to you when I'm fluent enough to know if it was the right language or not.
Christian James Meredith
Christian James Meredith Otherwise my tentative translation: "Oh yeah, it's on, who's kebab is this BTW?"
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Maleen Schlüter, yes indeed it can be omitted, but even when omitted, it will still be translated into English (<-- this is hint) :)
But it isn't "and" or "for"
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Christian James Meredith: Enjoy :D
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson
Malin Elisabeth Nilsson I have decided to give this game a name :) Hereafter it´s called "Språkspelet" (the game of languages). =) If språk is too hard, try "sprog" instead. Now im going to enjoy the short swedish summer for a wile so I am starting a facebook fasting :) See you!
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter
Marius Vincenzii Dennischter ok, I'll go for it then: little by little, fills up the measure :)
Arief Wibowo
Arief Wibowo Vincensiu Denis: you got it right!

The Indonesian proverb goes like this: sedikit demi sedikit, menjadi bukit
(notice the word "sedikit" repeaated twice and the -kit ending)
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