So I got Rehema to take a shot at translating N'Chala.
Here's what he gave me: "This is probably a badly spelled version of the expression "Insh'allah," which means "God willing" in Arabic but which is also widely used in Swahili (which has quite a number of Arabic-derived words due to its coastal location & trading history)."
Appears to be nothing. Hopefully someone else can make someone out of it. It could after all be just a name from 100,000 years ago.
N'Chala as translated by Rehema
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Re: N'Chala as translated by Rehema
Maybe Bungie just named the guy whatever because their HALO Story Bible is -that- intricately designed.
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Re: N'Chala as translated by Rehema
I, too, thought the name N'chala was strange... in Russian, "nachala" means "beginning"... it is spelled like this:Ironlion wrote:So I got Rehema to take a shot at translating N'Chala.
Here's what he gave me: "This is probably a badly spelled version of the expression "Insh'allah," which means "God willing" in Arabic but which is also widely used in Swahili (which has quite a number of Arabic-derived words due to its coastal location & trading history)."
Appears to be nothing. Hopefully someone else can make someone out of it. It could after all be just a name from 100,000 years ago.
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Interesting little tidbit, whether it was purposeful or not.