Word: bulus
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...kind in existence in Cambridge as all those before her will be found under trees on Dec. 25. Mr. Kane himself has no explanation for Bulu's apparent Freudian attraction to University students, but at the moment he is scouring the Congo for new candidates. Zubu will have her bulus...
...Bulu dialect of the African Bantu language can be drummed almost as well as spoken. Reason: it is even more a language of tones than official Chinese. Where the Chinese use four tones, the Bulus have five-two high, two low and one in the middle. So distinct are the pitches and rhythms of the language that sometimes a couple of people "too far apart to hear actual words call back and forth using only the syllables kiki in the tones of the words they would employ in ordinary conversation." The thick and the thin sides of the drum...
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