Bamb-hara

Bamb-hara (also romanized and popularized by the British as Bambara) is a city in Zaherus.

Etymology
The word Bamb-hara is actually a loanword from a local dialect, it isn't a word in the Standard Arfe language.

Analysis
City names usually have the ending -hara, that means "city" or "town" in english, the other part of the word is Bamb-, in this case, it happens to be that a hyphen, in Arfe, hyphens are used mainly for shortening words, in this example, it is used to shorten and connect the words Bamba and Hara, instead of writing Bambahara, due to pronounciation (the word is pronounced as Bambara) the first a is switched with an hyphen, first, because if the word was Bambahara, the syllabe structure would be like this: Bam-ba-ha-ra, when it's pronounced like Bam-ba-ra, this is due to the fact that the H sound in Arfe does not have a specific pronounciation, it is just air, not a sound, like D or T, but in some dialects it takes the /h/ sound. The second reason is, because ortography, the hyphen here indicates that the word behind ends in a, in other cases it might end in other letters (Example, word that ends in e is united with a word that starts by he).

Origin of the word Bamba
The word bamba is a word in the dialect spoken in the city, it is believed by linguists that it comes from 2 Old Atfe words Bemi (mountain) and Bas (flat), in the Arfe Language the words highly mutated from Old Arfe who linguists believe that the word Bemibas derivated to Bambas and then, due to the aspiration of the phoneme s that occurs in some parts of the country made it go to Bamba (flat mountain).

Demography
The city has been populated for many centuries. Its current population (as of a 2024 census) is of 42358 inhabitants.