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Sing or Dance - A Linguistic Distinction?

Category: Random Thoughts
Date: 2015-03-06

In his book, "This is Your Brain on Music", Daniel J. Levitin an describes interesting aspect of the Sesotho language of South Africa:

The Sesotho verb for singing (ho bina), as in many of the world's languages, also means to dance; there is no distinction ...

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