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The hungu is an African musical instrument, ancestor of the Brazilian berimbau. Its origins are carried on in an ancient tradition ...

Musical bow is at all of Khoi-San origin - first known ethnos of homo sapiens sapiens. Relatively old names "berimbau" (Portugal), "birimbau" (Brazil), "birimbao" (Spain), all come directly from name "mbirimbau" (Kimbundu language, called in Portuguese Quimbundo, spoken by Ambundu people of Angola, South-West Africa) [Renato Mendonça; Ortiz; Rego 1968; Machado 1977; Meggeney 1978; "Collins English Dictionary"; Schneider "Dictionary of African borrowings in Brazilian Portuguese"].

Posted by Lutadores da Liberdade Admin on March 22, 2010 at 8:00 AM

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10:53 PM on October 04, 2010 

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