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Reduplication is a common phenomenon in Bantu languages and is usually used to form a frequentive verb or for emphasis. [37] [38] Swahili piga 'to strike'; pigapiga 'to strike repeatedly' Ganda okukuba (oku-kuba) 'to strike'; okukubaakuba (oku-kuba-kuba) 'to strike repeatedly, to batter'
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 ...
Northwest Bantu is more divergent internally than Central Bantu, and perhaps less conservative due to contact with non-Bantu Niger–Congo languages; Central Bantu is likely the innovative line cladistically. Northwest Bantu is not a coherent family, but even for Central Bantu the evidence is lexical, with little evidence that it is a ...
Malay is an agglutinative language, and new words are formed by three methods.New words can be created by attaching affixes onto a root word (), formation of a compound word (composition), or repetition of words or portions of words (reduplication).
The four Bantu languages with elevated "national" status. French is the official language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is culturally accepted as the lingua franca, facilitating communication among the many different ethnic groups of the Congo.
The first peoples in Singida Region are the Bantu ethnic group of this region is known as the Turu people, it is the most prominent ethnic group in the region as they currently have a world population of over 1,000,000 members with most of them residing in the Singida Region.
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Asmah Haji Omar (born 5 March 1940) [1] is a Malaysian linguist.She is an emeritus professor at the Academy of Malay Studies, University of Malaya (UM). She was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics of the university. [2]