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=== Other names === [[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Twee Samo muzikanten bespelen de muziekboog TMnr 20010314.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Samo people|Samo]] musicians from the Upper Volta, [[Burkina Faso]] playing a musical bow, using their mouths as resonators. 1970–1971.]] Musical bows are known by various names in the different languages of South Africa - some refer only to musical bows using gourds as resonators, others using the mouth:<ref name="christine"/><ref>{{cite web |url= http://dhost.info/etno/capoeira/musical.bow/musical-bow.htm|title=Musical Bow|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |access-date=2015-01-22}}</ref> *[[Kele language (Gabon)|Akele]]: ''ngongo'' *[[Kimbundu]]: ''hungu'' *[[Nguni languages|Nguni]]: ''makhoyane'' *[[Pedi language|Pedi]]: ''lekope'' *[[Sotho language|S. Sotho]]: ''[[lesiba]]'', ''thomo'', ''setolotolo'' *[[Tepehuán language|Tepehuán]]: ''gat'' *[[Tswana language|Tswana]]: ''segankure'' *[[Tsonga language|Tsonga]]: ''xizambi'', ''xitende'' *[[Umbundu]]: ''ombulumbumba'' *[[Venda language|Venda]]: ''tshihwana'', ''lugube'', ''tshijolo'' *[[Xhosa language|Xhosa]]: ''uhadi'', ''umrhubhe'', ''umqunge'', ''inkinge'' *[[Zulu language|Zulu]]: ''umakhweyana'', ''ugubu'', ''umqangala'', ''umhubhe''<ref>{{cite journal|author-last=Dargie|author-first=Dave|editor-last=Oehrle|editor-first=Elizabeth |title= Magical Musical Bows|publisher = Digital Innovation South Africa |journal= The Talking Drum |issue =16 |date =September 2001 |url= http://disa.ukzn.ac.za/TALKING_DRUM}}</ref> *[[!Kung languages|!Kung]]: ''m'bolumbumba'' *[[Lingala language|Lingala]]: ''tolo-tolo'' *umqangala
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