Folk vs Akonting - What's the difference?
folk | akonting |
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a land, their culture, tradition, or history.
Of or pertaining to common people as opposed to ruling classes or elites.
(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles.
Believed or transmitted by the common people; not academically correct or rigorous.
(archaic) A grouping of smaller peoples or tribes as a nation.
* J. R. Green
The inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
*1907 , Race Prejudice , Jean Finot, p. 251:
*:We thus arrive at a most unexpected imbroglio. The French have become a Germanic folk' and the Germanic ' folk have become Gaulish!
One’s relatives, especially one’s parents.
(music) Folk music.
(plural only) People in general.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 (plural only) A particular group of people.
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(musical instrument) The folk lute of the Jola people of West Africa; a banjo-like instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string.
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 2, author=The New York Times, title=New CDs, work=New York Times
, passage=But there’s no less spirit in the singing and thumb piano playing of Ruth Akello, an unheralded Ugandan, or in the banjo-like akonting playing of the Jatta family, in Gambia. }}
As nouns the difference between folk and akonting
is that folk is people while akonting is (musical instrument) the folk lute of the jola people of west africa; a banjo-like instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string.folk
English
Alternative forms
* voke, volk, volke (dialectal)Adjective
(-)- folk''' psychology; '''folk linguistics
Noun
(en-noun)- The organization of each folk , as such, sprang mainly from war.
citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes
Derived terms
* folk devil * folk etymology * folk hero * folklore * folk medicine * folk memory * folk music * folkster * folksyReferences
akonting
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia akonting)citation