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.
Posted on April 29, 2008 | 50 Comments. The Bantu expansion. The Bantu are thought to have originated from the the area of Nigeria/Cameroon, and started their expansion East and South about 5,000 years ago (3,000 BC). They reached the equatorial rain forest 3500 years ago, entering what is now Uganda, 3000 years ago.antu farming. The success of the Bantu was to do with farming. In a pattern repeated the world over throughout history, the farming people expand relatively quickly into lands occupied by hunter gatherers, displacing them, and absorbing a small number of them into their population.