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Royal house and ceremony
The author’s greeting study separates ordinary speech from ceremony, from the royal house, and from the poetic register people use when ordinary words are not enough.
- Who
- Subjects, hosts, speakers
- When
- Court and ceremony
- Where
- Royal homestead and ritual ground
- Why
- Rank changes the sentence.
The author’s paper does not say whether this is still practised today, so no status is shown.
Summarised from Professor Petrus Angula Mbenzi’s Oshiwambo forms of greeting.
This is a doorway, not the full account. The complete description stays with Professor Petrus Angula Mbenzi until he releases it. Read it in his books.