{"id":91539,"date":"2016-05-10T15:27:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=91539"},"modified":"2016-05-10T15:28:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T13:28:20","slug":"captain-america-civil-wars-new-language-is-distinctly-south-african","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/91539-captain-america-civil-wars-new-language-is-distinctly-south-african","title":{"rendered":"Captain America: Civil War&#8217;s &#8220;new&#8221; language is distinctly South African"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The language used for Wakandan in Captain America: Civil War was Xhosa, co-director Joe Russo recently <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2016\/05\/05\/black-panther-language-wakanda-xhosa\" target=\"_blank\">told Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Black Panther (T\u2019Challa) speaks Xhosa with his father T\u2019Chaka in the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn Kani, the actor who plays T\u2019Challa\u2019s father in the movie, speaks the language,\u201d said Russo.<\/p>\n<p>Kani, who was born in New Brighton in the Eastern Cape, is a South African actor, director, and playwright.<\/p>\n<p>Embedded below are videos of Trevor Noah explaining Xhosa on an episode of QI, and a Xhosa lesson.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"trevornoahsingstheclicksongonqi\">Trevor Noah sings the click song on QI<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/baEiWB2aM9Y\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"howtopronouncethexclickinxhosa\u2014\u00a0ubuntubridge\">How to pronounce the X click in Xhosa \u2014\u00a0Ubuntu bridge<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Trq_gIe1v04\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Intel\u2019s 10-core gaming processor benchmarks leaked\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/91479-intels-10-core-gaming-processor-benchmarks-leaked.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel\u2019s 10-core gaming processor benchmarks leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome gaming and gadget deals\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/91399-awesome-gaming-and-gadget-deals-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome gaming and gadget deals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to South Africa\u2019s premier geek festival kicks off this weekend \u2013 GeekFest 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/91225-south-africas-premier-geek-festival-kicks-off-this-weekend-geekfest-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">South Africa\u2019s premier geek festival kicks off this weekend \u2013 GeekFest 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The directors of Captain America: Civil War have revealed which language inspired Wakandan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":91541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,11587,18493,4083,6402,18495],"class_list":["post-91539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-captain-america","tag-civil-war","tag-marvel","tag-movies","tag-xhosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}