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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

High tones, is actually pronounced bálilabá with only one. (The tone on the last syllable is an automatically generated phrasal tone; see Luganda tones.)...

on inflectional phrase and Luganda tones. He had a long and fruitful collaboration with Larry Hyman investigating Luganda phonology . Katamba claimed...

the Ganda and Nyoro are significantly different to one another with the Luganda and Runyoro languages not even being mutually intelligble. The Baganda...

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African languages, such as Setswana and Luganda, also have initial consonant length: it is very common in Luganda and indicates certain grammatical features...

Luweero district and is well known for his ability to sing fluently in Luganda language, Swahili language, and some bit English Language. He attended...

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...

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...

Tag-Set for Luganda". International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC). 5 (4). Concord Numbers used in the categorisation of Luganda words encoded...

dominant ethnicity are the Baganda (singular Muganda), whose language is Luganda. Swahili (Kiswahili) (350,000; tens of millions as L2) South Mbundu (Umbundu)...

[+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...

tənur, Tajik tanur (танур), Turkish tandır, Turkmen tamdyr, Uzbek tandir, Luganda ttanuulu, and Somali tinaar. The first time a tandoor is used, the temperature...

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...

one of the two vowels is retained in its original form. For example, in Luganda, /muiko/ is realised as [mwiːk.o]. In some cases, this may result in the...

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...

also available in Bulgarian, Dutch, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Luganda, Polish, Spanish, Swahili and Welsh. Translations in progress include French...

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...

Brunswick 2003, 21–42. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2005. "The word in Luganda". In F.K. Erhard Voeltz (ed.), Studies in African linguistic typology,...

Thus mesa -----table (Kiswahili) becomes e-mesa oku-fuga -----to rule (Luganda) becomes ai-puga It is an invariable rule that two consonants can never...

(1952), Kirundi (1952), Laadi (1953), Bangubangu (1954), Bemba (1954), Luganda (1955), Shambala (1955), Sotho (1958), Lega (1962), Tonga (1963), and Yao...

occur when tone marks are used: The two tone marks in Xīān unambiguously show that the word consists of two syllables. However, even with tone marks, the...

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...

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...