• traditionally described as having three tones: high (á), low (à) and falling (â). Rising tones are not found in Luganda, even on long vowels, since a sequence...
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  • addition to lexical tones, phrasal tones, and the tonal patterns of tenses, there are also intonational tones in Luganda, for example, tones of questions. One...
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  • may contain more than three morae. The tone system in Luganda is based on morae. See Luganda tones and Luganda grammar. In Old English, short diphthongs...
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  • indicated by a low tone on the final syllable (e.g. ssóméró 'it is a school' vs. ssóméro 'is it a school?'). (See Chichewa tones and Luganda tones.) A corpus-based...
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  • pronounced bálilabá with only one. (The tone on the last syllable is an automatically generated phrasal tone; see Luganda tones.) This process does not operate...
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  • accents. They can be either high or falling (rising tones do not occur in Luganda). Falling tones are found on bimoraic syllables or word-finally: ensî...
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  • Downdrift (category Articles containing Luganda-language text)
    course of a sentence due to interactions among tones in a tonal language. Downdrift often occurs when the tones in successive syllables are H L H (high, low...
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  • main clause verbs. Tones are also used in intonation and phrasing. Conventionally Chichewa is said to have high tones (H) and low tones (L). However, it...
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  • on inflectional phrase and Luganda tones. He had a long and fruitful collaboration with Larry Hyman investigating Luganda phonology . Katamba claimed...
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  • Biira Bwambale Lubaga Lubaga Division Lubaga Hospital Lubigi Lubiri Luganda Luganda tones Lugazi Lugazi University Lugbara cuisine Lugbara language Lugbara...
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  • Gemination (category Articles containing Luganda-language text)
    African languages, such as Setswana and Luganda, also have initial consonant length: it is very common in Luganda and indicates certain grammatical features...
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  • especially in the courses of Yoruba, Chinyanja, Shona, Kirundi, and Luganda, the tones are marked with a detail and precision not seen in previous grammars...
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    undergarments). The Luganda language is widely spoken in Uganda and is the most popular language in Uganda along with English. Luganda is also widely spoken...
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  • consonants sounded alone without a vowel in the syllable. Indeed, the Luganda word for consonant is "silent letter". Thus the letters l and d in Alfred...
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    two tone levels, High (H) and Low (L). Contour tones do occur, and can often be analysed as two or more tones in succession on a single syllable. Tone melodies...
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    dominant ethnicity are the Baganda (singular Muganda), whose language is Luganda. Swahili (Kiswahili) (350,000; tens of millions as L2) South Mbundu (Umbundu)...
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    Luweero district and is well known for his ability to sing fluently in Luganda language, Swahili language, and some bit English Language. He attended...
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  • Tag-Set for Luganda". International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC). 5 (4). Concord Numbers used in the categorisation of Luganda words encoded...
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  • ama-), or a lowered variety (Luganda omu-). Where the noun class prefix normally has a low tone, the augment has a high tone. The following table gives...
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  • [+ATR] environments. Karamojong has three basic tones: high, mid, and low. There are also three contour tones: high-low, mid-low, and low-mid. In Ngakarimojong...
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    tənur, Tajik tanur (танур), Turkish tandır, Turkmen tamdyr, Uzbek tandir, Luganda ttanuulu, and Somali tinaar. The first time a tandoor is used, the temperature...
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    perceived as pointing from "low" to "high" tones but the other way around, from "small" to "large" or "big" tones. Despite this, the notation (created by...
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  • only the second vowel is retained in its original form. For example, in Luganda, /muiko/ is realised as [mwiːk.o]. In some cases, this may result in the...
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  • Tooro language (section Tone)
    augmentless (i.e. without an augment, equivalent to the base state in Luganda) in these circumstances: If the noun is preceded by the class 16 locative...
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    of Zambia. In addition, many of the documentations of the language of Luganda, spoken in Uganda, such as grammars, dictionaries and individual articles...
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  • also available in Bulgarian, Dutch, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Luganda, Polish, Spanish, Swahili and Welsh. Translations in progress include French...
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    are commonly watched. The English soundtrack is often accompanied by the Luganda translation and comments, provided by an Ugandan "video jockey" (VJ). VJ's...
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  • Cleopatra Koheirwe (category Articles with a promotional tone from August 2023)
    started working on her solo singing career. Her first single titled Ngamba (Luganda for "Tell me") was a pop song about deceptive relationships. The song was...
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  • pre-hesternal.[citation needed] Another tense found in some languages, including Luganda, is the persistive tense, used to indicate that a state or ongoing action...
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  • Grammatical number (category Articles containing Luganda-language text)
    also has its own plural in peoples.) Tonality (by changing a drag tone to a push tone) Limburgish: daãg "day" (singular) – daàg "days" (plural) Ancient...
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