Chichewa is said to have high tones (H) and low tones (L). However, it has been argued that it is more accurate to think of it as having high-toned syllables...

remarkable in that it was the first to mark the tones of the words. Modern monographs on aspects of Chichewa grammar include Mtenje (1986), Kanerva (1990)...

Chichewa (also but less commonly known as Chinyanja, Chewa or Nyanja) is the main lingua franca of central and southern Malawi and neighbouring regions...

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...

Chichēwā with two mid-tones, or Chichěwā, with a rising tone on the penultimate syllable. Sentence-finally it can become Chichěwà with a rising tone on...

may have depressor consonants that slightly lower the pitch, but do not have any phonemic effects, as is the case with Chichewa tones. Tonogenesis v t e...

are made partly by adding infixes, and partly by suffixes. Unlike Chichewa, tones do not form any part of the distinction between one tense and another...

It is 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...

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...

VH1 LHHH (local bumping with bridging), a form of tone shifting ('bumping') found in Chichewa tones This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

toned syllable. That phenomenon is common in African languages, such as Chichewa. It has also been argued that the same phenomenon is heard in English sentences...

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

analysis of Chichewa vowel harmony. Lingua 66, 21–52. doi:10.1016/S0024-3841(85)90248-7 Mtenje, Al D. 1987. Tone shift principles in the Chichewa verb: A...

million) Zulu (Isizulu) (300,000) Xhosa Shimaore Shindzuani Chewa (Nyanja) (Chichewa) (7 million) Tumbuka (1 million) Yao (1 million) Shimaore Swahili is a...

The Tonga language is tonal, with underlying tones High and non-High. Unlike Tumbuka, the high tones are not confined to the penultimate syllable of...

varying grammatical environments, with the high tones being manipulated by "tonal rules", and the tones associated with certain syllables being changed...

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...

orthography.) In Nsenga, ŵ denotes the labiodental approximant /ʋ/. In Chichewa, ŵ (present for example in the name of the country Malaŵi) used to denote...

borrowed from Chichewa. In verbs there is no tonal distinction between one verb-root and another (i.e. no distinction between high and low-toned verbs as in...

poems in the Chichewa language). In: Enoch Mvula (ed.) Akoma Akagonera. Popular Publications, Limbe. Mchombo, S. A., & Moto, F. (1981). "Tone and the Theory...

education. The most important local languages include Tsonga, Makhuwa, Sena, Chichewa, and Swahili. Glottolog lists 46 languages spoken in the country, of which...

South Africa, fused their music with local sounds. The word, 'Kwela', in Chichewa means 'to climb' which is similar to the South African definition, which...

collaboration with Al Mtenje led to them co-authoring The Phonology of Chichewa (Downing & Mtenje 2017). Downing was also involved in international collaborative...

sister company of Times Television. It broadcasts nationwide, mostly in chichewa. On 29 July 2020, Times Radio had a mix up with the UK-based radio station...

action in question no longer holds. For example, in the Bantu language Chichewa, use of the remote past tense ánáamwalíra "he died" would be surprising...

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below Ẁ ẁ W with grave Welsh Ẃ ẃ W with acute Welsh Ŵ ŵ W with circumflex Chichewa, Nsenga, Welsh, ISO 259 Hebrew romanization, Tumbuka W̃ w̃ W with tilde...

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clause, for a result that is not a straightforward question. Context and tone of voice may suggest that the speaker is impressed or incredulous.) Similarly...

June 6–8, 2006 (with Maria Polinsky). Prosodic morphology and tone: the case of Chichewa. In Harry van der Hulst, René Kager & Wim Zonneveld, eds., The...