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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Mora (linguistics) (section Luganda)
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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Pitch-accent language (redirect from Franconian tone accent)
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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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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Karamojong language (section Tones)
[+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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