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The Grassfields languages were previously known as Grassfields Bantu and Semi-Bantu. They are sometimes classified on two levels, Wide Grassfields, which includes all the languages, and Narrow Grassfields, which excludes Menchum, Ambele and sometimes the Southwest Grassfields languages. These may form a group of their own, which Nurse (2003 ...
farmer o munene fat o mukaddomu old one agenda goes o mulimi o munene o mukaddomu {} agenda farmer fat old one goes One old, fat farmer is going. But it is absent when a noun follows a negative verb: tetulaba we don't see mulimi farmer munene fat tetulaba mulimi munene {we don't see} farmer fat We don't see a fat farmer. In Zulu, the augment is normally present, but it is dropped in cases like ...
Yao is an SVO language.Like all Bantu languages, Yao is agglutinative, with a highly regular paradigm of verbal inflection, and its nouns placed in a variety of classes indicated by prefixes, these partially corresponding to actual categories of objects or people.
The lhukonzo (Konzo) language, variously rendered Lukonzo, Olukonzo, and konzo, is a Bantu language spoken by the Konzo people of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It has a 77% lexical similarity with Nande. There are many dialects, including Sanza (Ekisanza). [1]
The Southern Bantu languages are a large group of Bantu languages, largely validated in Janson (1991/92). [1] They are nearly synonymous with Guthrie's Bantu zone S , apart from the debated exclusion of Shona and inclusion of Makhuwa .
Shona (/ ˈ ʃ oʊ n ə /; [4] Shona: chiShona) is a Bantu language of the Shona people of Zimbabwe.The term is variously used to collectively describe all the Central Shonic varieties (comprising Zezuru, Manyika, Korekore and Karanga or Ndau) or specifically Standard Shona, a variety codified in the mid-20th century.
The Sabaki languages are the Bantu languages of the Swahili Coast, named for the Sabaki River.In addition to Swahili, Sabaki languages include Ilwana (Malakote) and Pokomo on the Tana River in Kenya, Mijikenda, spoken on the Kenyan coast; Comorian, in the Comoro Islands; and Mwani, spoken in northern Mozambique. [3]
Haya (Oruhaya) is a Bantu language spoken by the Haya people of Tanzania, in the south and southwest coast of Lake Victoria.In 1991, the population of Haya speakers was estimated at 1,200,000 people .