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  • The choir behind Carreras is at least 40 mixed voices, and the instrumental accompaniment includes the charango guitar, the quena flute, Bolivian panpipes known as the siku and a variety of traditional folk percussion instruments.

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  • Nchini Honduras siku ilianza na habari zinazosema kwamba Rais Mel Zelaya amekamatwa akiwa nyumbani kwake na wanajeshi wenye silaha.

    Global Voices in English » Honduras: Political Crisis Over Controversial Referendum 2009

  • Wakati machafuko yalipoitingisha Kampala, mji mkuu wa Uganda, kwa siku ya pili, wanablogu na watumiaji wa intaneti waliungana ili kuupasha ulimwengu habari.

    Global Voices in English » Uganda: Nine Dead in Kampala Riots 2009

  • Kura ya maoni ilikuwa imepangwa kupigwa siku hiyo, kura hiyo ilikuwa inapingwa na mahakama ya juu, na majeshi ya nchi pamoja na baraza la wawakilishi.

    Global Voices in English » Honduras: Political Crisis Over Controversial Referendum 2009

  • Maana yangu hapa ni kusema kwamba watanzania wengi wamewahi kuchukua nafasi katika maisha yangu na kuwa kama familia yangu ... na ninawashukuru kwa upendo na msaada wanao nionyesha kila siku nikiwa hapa Tanzania.

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  • Maana yangu hapa ni kusema kwamba watanzania wengi wamewahi kuchukua nafasi katika maisha yangu na kuwa kama familia yangu ... na ninawashukuru kwa upendo na msaada wanao nionyesha kila siku nikiwa hapa Tanzania.

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  • Lakini siku zingine naona ni kitu kigumu sana kuishi hapa kwa sababu watu wengi naowategemea, wataondoka.

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  • Kwa miaka mitatu sasa tumeshirikiana siku za furaha na siku zingine za huzuni.

    Archive 2008-06-01 jen 2008

  • Kwa miaka mitatu sasa tumeshirikiana siku za furaha na siku zingine za huzuni.

    mbona kitu kigumu sana jen 2008

  • Juzi ilikuwa siku ya huzini kweli kweli kwa sababu Bomba Mbaya, besti yangu, alirudi Marekani ghafla.

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  • "The Siberian Yupik language is ideally suited to the world of St. Lawrence Island, a landscape of ice and snow. Siberian Yupik has almost sixty separate words for ice: siku, ice; duvaq, shore-fast ice; iighwilnguq, drifting floes of ice; genu, slush ice; saleq, new ice; laaq, ice run; meghaat, open water on pack ice; kagim leghwaaq, crushed ice. Heimo told me how sometimes Edna will caution the girls: 'Watch out, that's wet water!' or 'Walk there, that's frozen ice.' They find it endlessly amusing, but for Edna it is anything but redundant."

    —James Campbell, The Final Frontiersman (New York and London: Atria Books, 2004), 245

    September 17, 2008

  • The Peruvian panpipe.

    November 25, 2014