Language specific content I really don t think that adding the Chishona version of the phrase was such a fantastical idea We could also add Sesotho Motho ke motho ka batho as well as Botho Such is the nature of the Kintu languages that 1 the words for humanness will sound similar nothing remarkable about that and 2 it doesn t take a great deal of willpower to construct the phrase a person is a person by other people b after b the fact even though this idiom never existed in the language the philosophy is more universal than the phrase The English name is specifically from isiZulu and isiXhosa even if the philosophy itself is universal