Public Words Challenge! | "Barika Tigi"

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:camera_with_flash: Nin filɛ – it’s a picture of some public written Bambara/Jula words that I took in West Africa:

Barika Tigi
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:backhand_index_pointing_right: Your challenge:

  1. Write out all the Bambara/Jula words in standard spelling!
  2. Translate them!
  3. Explain the message!

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I will give feedback and/or post the answer before the challenge closes :slight_smile:

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Barikatigi. Barika b’à la.
Helper? Thanks/Help is on it?

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I ni ce! Good guess @Caroline :slight_smile:

Some feedback:

  • “barika” can also mean ‘divine strength’ but the contextual translation of “helper” works if it’s the name of a soap that helps via its strength
  • It is a situative construction but how else could you translate it here? Situatives are sometimes used to express other things besides strict location as well…
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It has devine strength?

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Or just “It’s strong” but in a special divine kind of way :wink:

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