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The strongest trend (which is basically a rule) is that all class 1 nouns are human, and non-human nouns that begin with the mo-prefix are therefore in class 3 (in fact, there are no human class 3 nouns in Sesotho). In many other languages, however, class 1 contains "animate" nouns, and may therefore also contain some non-human nouns.
Contrast the last example with [bɑtʰʊbɑbɑhʊlʊ] batho ba baholo [_ _ ! ¯ _ ¯ _ ] ('the large people'), where the relative concord has an irregular extra-high tone and does not raise the second low tone ba, and there is a downstep between the two words which is not heard in the copulative. In the case of relatives, the subjectival ...
Just as the Sesotho sentence centres on the Sesotho noun, the noun is made to "concòrd" ("agree") with the verbs, pronouns, and qualificatives describing it by a set of Sesotho noun concords. The noun concord system is the most striking feature of the Bantu language family .
Words such as nthuše "help me", are pronounced as [n̩tʰuʃe]. /n/ can also be pronounced as /ŋ/ following a velar consonant. [ 13 ] Urban varieties of Northern Sotho, such as Pretoria Sotho (actually a derivative of Tswana ), have acquired clicks in an ongoing process of such sounds spreading from Nguni languages .
Bariba, also known as Baatonum, is the language of the Bariba people and was the language of the state of Borgu.The native speakers are called Baatombu (singular Baatonu), [2] Barba, Baruba, Berba and a number of various other names and spellings.
In Chomsky's 1970 [±V, ±N] analysis, words with the feature "plus noun" that are not verbs "minus verb", are predicted to be nouns, while words with the feature "plus verb" and "minus noun" would be verbs. Following from this, when a word has both characteristics of nouns and verbs we get adjectives.
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Proper nouns should follow these guidelines, however one long-sound or one short-sound letter may be added before or after the word. c, lr, and qw are not permitted to be noun-initial, and l and w are avoided at the end of nouns. Example nouns include babm (a universal language) and rboit [rabooːiːto] ("mother and father").