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	Ndau - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Ndau ethnic group inhabits the Zambezi valley in central Mozambique all the way to the coast, and eastern Zimbabwe, south of Mutare.
		The Ndau are considered a sub-group of the Mashona tribe.
		The ancestors of the Ndau were warriors from Swaziland who intermarried with the local population.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/n/d/a/Ndau.html (146 words)

	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Ndau" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The ancestors of the Ndau were warriors from Swaziland who intermarried with the local population, constituted ethnically and linguistically by Manika, Barwe, Tewe (in the Manika province) and Ndau, which itself includes several sub-groups (in the southern part of the Sofala province).
		In a strict sense of the term the Ndau language is mainly spoken in the following southern districts of the Sofala province: Machanga, Chibabava, Machaze (Danda), Buzi and in Nhamatanda, Dondo and Beira (Bangwe).
		Ndau is also one of the languages used in churches in Beira.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=ndau (756 words)

	Ken Lopez - Bookseller: Vietnam/The Sixties 2, Vietnam Visual Material
		Approximately 34" x 34", this embroidered pa ndau shows a traditional scene of village life in the highlands of Laos, with planting, cooking, and other traditional activities taking place, followed by--as one approaches the foreground--the arrival of armed Pathet Lao soldiers herding villagers at gunpoint.
		The artist who created this pa ndau escaped from a Pathet Lao prison camp with her children, hiding out in the forest for several weeks until she was eventually recaptured; her captors knocked her teeth out with rifle butts after her recapture.
		She eventually escaped again and made it across the river, finally emigrating to the U.S. River-crossing pa ndau--a modern expression of a traditional Hmong art--are extremely scarce, and this is a particularly dramatic example.
	www.lopezbooks.com /catalog/vs2/vs2-21.html (861 words)

	AIM International - USA - Ndau Outreach
		Sitatonga is a twenty-five mile ridge that runs from the Chimanimani Mountains at the Zimbabwe border to the Buzi River in Ndau territory.
		The Ndau, they have learned, not only believe that the blood of bulls and goats can take away their sin, but also make offerings to dead ancestors in order to gain their protection, healing, and help with problems.
		The importance of getting the Good News to the Ndau, Bob says, is made all the more real as the team witnesses these unreached people passing into eternity without Christ.
	www.aimint.org /usa/stories/in_the_shadow_of_sitatonga.html (402 words)

	World Report 355 -- November 2000, 355/11-12
		Although the Ndau Bible has been available since 1957, the decision was made in 1984 to begin work on a new translation to make the language more contemporary.
		After a reading of John 3:1-21 from the revised New Testament, a history of Ndau Scripture translation was given by the Rev Dr Joshua Dube, Bishop of the United Baptist Church (UBC).
		Apart from Zimbabwe’s Ndau population, there are more than 100,000 speakers in neighbouring countries such as Mozambique who will also benefit from the new translation.
	www.biblesociety.org /wr_355/355_11-12.htm (879 words)

	Pa Ndau
		Alternately spelled pandau, or paj ntaub, pa ndau is pronounced pan doa.
		The center is a beautiful, vibrant, geometric picture, masterfully executed applique, and/or cross stitch, with colors ranging from lime green, hot pink, turquoise blue, and gold to white, earth brown, sun yellow, blood red, royal blue, and rich violet.
		Recognized for its vivid capability to preserve the great cultural heritage of the Hmong, it persists as a symbol of their passageway from an old home to a new, and from one world to the next.
	www.amishcountrylanes.com /Pages/PanDau.shtml (727 words)

	Miami University
		As a permanent resident of Mozambique from an infant through age 13, Fennig is prepared to research, live and travel there during her study.
		She will be learning Ndau along with her study groups.
		Her goals are to publish two scholarly articles and to write a manual intended to aid in learning Ndau.
	www.cas.muohio.edu (637 words)

	Walden - University Research - 2003 Outstanding Dissertation - Page
		However, she conducted her research out of the Mt. Selinda School of Nursing in the Chipinge District of Zimbabwe, where she was a tutor responsible for school management and classroom and clinical teaching.
		A former nurse and educator in Canada, Lesotho and Pakistan, Duffy conducted her ethnographic study of health promotion and AIDS prevention with 11 Ndau women, 17 key informants and four focus groups in a rural area of the southern African nation.
		Duffy wrote that the chief of the area, along with other men and women who read a 47-page summary report of her research—not the entire 300 pages—agreed that the Ndau culture, especially male and female roles and relationships, was well captured in the study.
	www.waldenu.edu /c/About/About_1282.htm (1241 words)

	Hmong quilts -- pa ndau -- reflect Hmong history
		Called "pa ndau," or flower cloth, the 8-by-10-foot quilt is a modern example of a cherished and revered art.
		"The pa ndau is the Hmong's freedom banner." The Hmong lived peacefully in the forests of China for thousands of years until the 19th century, when rulers launched a campaign of persecution to extinguish the Hmong language.
		"For the Hmong women, pa ndau is a way for them to express themselves." The quilt shows how thousands of Hmong ventured to Southeast Asia, where they began raising livestock, weaving baskets and stitching the colorful garments decorated with pa ndau.
	www.hmongnet.org /culture/pandau2.html (832 words)

	www.timo-aim.com - Ndau TIMO team has begun!
		The Ndau TIMO Team, led by Bob and Karen Barnes, who have been working in Mozambique for 12 yrs, began with the arrival of the team members on Oct 20th.
		The 7 new team members are Peter Irwin, Claire Weddell and Jo Withers from the UK, Kate Yucuis and Jen Jacobs from the US, and Ademola and Bilhah Olatunji and their four sons from Nigeria who have been working in Malawi for the past 9 years.
		The town of Buzi is 95% Ndau so the team got a lot of oppoturnity to learn and practice phrases in Chindau, the Language of the Ndau people.
	www.timo-aim.com /content/view/72/59 (260 words)

	Honey Hunting
		ndau (Irvingia gabonensis), and the hive is located in a rotten branch some twenty meters (sixty feet) from the ground.
		He helps Ndikpa up to a notch on an adjacent tree that he will climb to reach the lowest branches of the tall ndau.
		As Ndikpa maneuvers across to the hive, smoke from the tilipi parcel of hot embers and green vegetation swirls around him and keeps the now agitated bees somewhat at bay.
	www2.bc.edu /~morellig/IturiForestPeoplesFund/HTML/honey.htm (328 words)

	Miami University News: News Release
		Miami senior Kathryn Fennig will spend a year studying the acquisition of the African language Ndau by speakers of English and Portuguese as the recipient of the Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Prize.
		It is believed to be among the largest undergraduate awards in the country.
		She is currently studying at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain, through the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) program.
	www.miami.muohio.edu /news/article/view/1145 (380 words)

	www.timo-aim.com - Ndau Mozambique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Ndau people of Mozambique have had some exposure to the gospel, but there is still much work to be done among them.
		The Ndau TIMO Team, led by Bob and Karen Barnes, who have been working in Mozambique for 12 yrs...
		Team Description: The Ndau people of Mozambique have had some exposure to the gospel, but there is still much work to be done among them.
	www.timo-aim.com /content/category/8/16/59 (1666 words)

	Untitled Document
		As mentioned before, pa ndau are a form of written language for the Hmong.
		In this example of pa ndau, the story being told is one of betrayal and tragedy.
		The American forces backing the Lao army and supporting the Hmong secret army abruptly withdrew from the war regions in 1975, leaving the Hmong abandoned in a country run by the communist Pathet Lao (Pfaff).
	www.unc.edu /~mdlee/6m/ML_Photoessay/Page6.htm (122 words)

	PanAfrLoc \| PanAfrLoc / Shona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shona is spoken by various groups (including Karanga, Makorekore, Manyika, Ndau, and Zezuru), primarily in Zimbabwe but also in western Mozambique (Manyika) and in south central Zambia.
		Ndau (partially intelligible with Shona; Closer to Manyika, and much more divergent from Union Shona...
		Gova in Mozambique is closer to Ndau, but in Zambia and Zimbabwe it is closer to Korekore dialect of Shona.
	www.bisharat.net /wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Shona (351 words)

	Warp Speeds - Stitching Identity
		For 25 years, the Hmong have stitched story cloths, or pa ndau, depicting scenes of war and daily life in Laos and China.
		A practice that began in the Hmong refugee camps, at first at the suggestion of western aid workers interested in promoting knowledge and new sources of revenue for the Hmong, artists stitch pa ndau to generate income and record, and preserve, their history.
		By embroidering their history onto cloth, Hmong men and women construct memories of individual and collective pasts and make sense of their global migrations.
	www.brown.edu /Facilities/Haffenreffer/hmong2.html (361 words)

	Ethnologue report for Mozambique
		Northern half of Manica Province, north of Ndau, west of Tewe.
		Dialects: Ndau (Cindau), Shanga (Cimashanga, Mashanga, Chichanga, Chixanga, Xanga, Changa, Senji, Chisenji), Danda (Cidanda, Ndanda, Cindanda, Vadanda, Watande), Dondo (Cidondo, Wadondo, Chibabava), Gova (Cigova).
		Lexical similarity 92% between Danda and Dondo dialects, 85% between Dondo and Shanga; 74% to 81% between Ndau dialects and Manyika.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Mozambique (1460 words)

	Multinational Staff Officer Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		MSOC is a structural educational unit of the NDAU.
		To develop the aspirants’ abilities to properly fulfill and substantially prepare for and conduct PSO and to develop their skills to produce planning documents during both the preparation phase and conduct of Peace Support Operations (PSO,) according to doctrine of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, NATO, UN, and OSCE.
		To familiarize the aspirants within the strategic and tactical departments of the NDAU with the NATO military structure, with the structure of organizations such as UN, and with conducting International PSO.
	www.mil.gov.ua /en/education/msoc.htm (804 words)

	Hmong Textile Art
		The intricately stitched creations of pa ndau are made with loving hands and utilize a number of techniques including cross stitch embroidery, surface embroidery, reverse appliqué, and appliqué.
		the jewel tones and batik fabrics sometimes used in today’s pa ndau creations, here is a photo of an antique Hmong wall hanging that I was given in 1992 that has the motif, “Elephant’s Foot” rendered in just two colors.
		Creating PA NDAU Appliqué: A New Approach to an Ancient Art Form by Carla J. Hassel (Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1984) is the first book I ever found on this subject.
	www.quiltersmuse.com /hmong_textile_art.htm (1802 words)

	International Library of African Music (ILAM)
		MOA16 features mbira and panpipe songs by Sena/Tonga, Karanga/Duma, and Ndau (Zimbabwe), bangwe board zither by Nyanja/Chewa and xylophone by Mang'anja (Malawi), and chants for military exercises by Swati men (Swaziland).
		MOA28 features music of pentatonic mbiras of the Soga, Nyoro & Ilimba (Uganda); Luba & Alur (D.R. Congo); of hexatonic of the Ndau (Zimbabwe & Mozambique), and Luba (D.R. Congo); heptatonic of the Lala (Zambia), Nyamwezi (Tanzania), Venda (South Africa), Mbunda (Barotseland); Njanja & Karanga (Zimbabwe); and Binza & Medje (D.R. Congo).
		MOA29 brings a selection of extracts intended to demonstrate the wide variety of tone, technique, and virtuosity which may occasionally be found among the gifted drummers of central and southern Africa.
	ilam.ru.ac.za /moa (966 words)

	Mozambique (12/06)
		Ethnic groups: Makua, Tsonga, Makonde, Shangaan, Shona, Sena, Ndau, and other indigenous groups, and approximately 10,000 Europeans, 35,000 Euro-Africans, and 15,000 South Asians.
		The estimated 4 million Makua are the dominant group in the northern part of the country--the Sena and Ndau are prominent in the Zambezi valley, and the Tsonga and Shangaan dominate in southern Mozambique.
		Despite the influence of Islamic coastal traders and European colonizers, the people of Mozambique have largely retained an indigenous culture based on small-scale agriculture.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/7035.htm (4360 words)

	talkingstory#3.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Xue said, "I like to sew pa ndau but I do not know how to sew pa ndau.
		He wanted to use the blue, green, yellow, white and fl thread and he wanted to sew a winter picture on his pa ndau.
		Last week he sold a pa ndau to a man and he got $30.
	ww2.saturn.stpaul.k12.mn.us /hmong/lessonplans/vocabulary/talkingstory3.html (281 words)

	Traveling Ed: Grade 3 - Exploration 3, Week 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ask each group to select ONE pa ndau and write down a few ideas of what they think the story on the pa ndau is about.
		Have each student briefly tell what his or her pa ndau is about.
		The pa ndau could describe local history or a current event, or even tell the story of a day at your school.
	www.travelinged.org /pilot/grade3/week5/grd3_ex3_teacher_wk5.shtml (760 words)

	SIM Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The only way to reach God is through the spirits of people who have died.” To the 1.5 million Ndau people living in eastern Zimbabwe and central Mozambique, appeasing and manipulating the hierarchy of disembodied spirits is the essence of their religion.
		A Ndau Bible was printed in 1957, but due to changes in the language, it is already difficult to understand.
		After our translators complete revision of a book, they send it to a team of reviewers—men and women who know Ndau well and represent a range of occupations, including students, teachers, pastors, and other professionals.
	www.sim.org /categorylist.asp?fun=6&cid=&mid=&pgid=&SID=449 (343 words)

	Other language resources - Introductory Shona
		London, UK: School of Oriental and African Languages (a university), is offering a one year evening class in Shona language.
		An introductory course in Portuguese to the Ndau language, related to Shona.
		For the moment I suggest using one of the free online translation services such as babelfish.altavista.com to translate the tutorial into your language.
	www.shonalanguage.info /resources.htm (841 words)

	Ethnologue report for language code:ndc
		Ndau (Cindau), Shanga (Cimashanga, Mashanga, Chichanga, Chixanga, Xanga, Changa, Senji, Chisenji), Danda (Cidanda, Ndanda, Cindanda, Vadanda, Watande), Dondo (Cidondo, Wadondo, Chibabava), Gova (Cigova).
		In the fall of 1985 the government introduced Ndau primers into schools in the Ndau area.
		This web edition of the Ethnologue contains all the content of the print edition and may be cited as:
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=ndc (175 words)

	ISLE OF NDAU - Bali Travel Villas Holiday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		ISLE OF NDAU - Bali Travel Villas Holiday
		Here live the traditional silversmiths of the Timor archipelago who have had long contacts with Javanese artisans.
		Or return to Roti and fly from there to Waingapu (Sumba) with Merpati, Rp18,250.
	www.baliforyou.com /indo29/isle_of_ndau.htm (118 words)

	NDAU language
		Click on each program above for more information about the content, availability and ordering.
		There is one similar spoken language or dialect which shares the same ISO language code as NDAU:
		See all the recordings available in related dialects.
	globalrecordings.net /language/130 (115 words)

	Mung dan ga da ga hte seng ai shing gyim ahkaw ahkang ndau shabra laika — Burmaguide.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mung dan ga da ga hte seng ai shing gyim ahkaw ahkang ndau shabra laika — Burmaguide.net
		Mung dan ga da ga hte seng ai shing gyim ahkaw ahkang ndau shabra laika
		Ndai site hta mung dan ga da ga hte seng ai shing gyim ahkaw ahkang ndau shabra laika hpring zup hkra hpe tang madun da ai.
	kachin.burmaguide.net /res-kc/BIG7_15_kc (292 words)

	Books on Pa Ndau (by Lowese)
		Here is a list of books on Hmong Pa Ndau.
		The last two are children's books: one is illustrated in the style of Pa Ndau and the other is a story about Pa Ndau as a focus.
		We hope to see you soon in #QuiltChat !
	www.quiltchat.com /lessons/pandau.html (342 words)

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