Josiah or Yoshiyahu (/dÊoÊËsaÉª.É/ or /dÊÉËzaÉª.É/; Hebrew: ×Ö¹××©Ö´××Ö¸Ö¼××Ö¼, Modern YoshiyyÃ¡hu, Tiberian YÃ´Å¡iyyÄhÃ», literally meaning healed by Yah or supported of Yah; Latin: Iosias; c. 649â609 BCE) was a king of Judah (641â609 BCE), who according to the Hebrew Bible, instituted major religious changes.
Kiswahili-Bantu, HATUA, step, pace in walking, a time, period of time, moment, point of time, space. The next Kiswahili-Bantu word I would like to examine is the word hatua, a noun and is said to be derived from the Semitic Arabic word khtwa(t).t is the author s contention, from the linguistic contents, that speakers of Proto-Bantu played an active part at the time of the expansion of Proto-Afro-Asiatic speakers in the Rift Valley of East Africa.
This Bantu expansion first introduced Bantu peoples to central, southern, and southeastern Africa, regions they had previously been absent from.bout 3000 years ago, speakers of the proto-Bantu language group began a millennia-long series of migrations eastward from their homeland between West Africa and Central Africa at the border of eastern Nigeria and Cameroon.