consonants in the Nguni and other languages greatly complicates their tonology. (In Sesotho there is absolutely no interaction whatsoever between the...
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Sotho (/sɛˈsuːtuː/) Sesotho, also known as Southern Sotho or Sesotho sa Borwa is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho–Tswana ("S.30") group, spoken...
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transcription delimiters. The phonology of Sesotho and those of the other Sotho–Tswana languages are radically different from those of "older" or more "stereotypical"...
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dipikara as if the cluster ⟨sp⟩ was a contraction of sep- Impolite The Sotho–Tswana languages lack the high toned pre-prefix/augment that appears in...
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The original passive suffix (still used in Setswana and many Northern Sotho languages) was -iwa, and so the suffixes are weakened to -ele, -esa and...
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allotone without immediately following another high tone (see Sesotho tonology). Most other instances of seemingly tonemic extra-high tones are found...
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Sesotho orthography (redirect from Sotho alphabet)
The orthography of the Sotho language is fairly recent and is based on the Latin script, but, like most languages written using the Latin alphabet, it...
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Sesotho grammar (redirect from Sotho grammar)
language; more specifically, a complex grammatical tone language. See Sotho tonology. It has no grammatical case marking on the noun. Nominal roles are indicated...
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prefix to be raised to a high tone (due to High Tone Doubling, see Sesotho tonology). dinku tseo di ntle ('those sheep are fine') [diŋ̩kʼut͡sʼe'ʊdin̩t͡ɬʼɛ]...
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In the Sotho language, the deficient verbs are a special subset of Sesotho verbs that require a subordinate or complementary verb to complete their action...
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Standard Chinese phonology (redirect from Chinese tonology)
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Shosuke (1977), The tone pattern of Japanese: An autosegmental theory of tonology, Tokyo, Japan: Kaitakusha, ISBN 978-0-87040-371-2 Haraguchi, Shosuke (1999)...
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Proceedings of the International Phonetic Association. Voorhoeve, Jan (1971). "Tonology of the Bamileke Noun". Journal of African Languages. 10: 44–53....
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