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Zambia has several major indigenous languages, [1] all members of the Bantu family, as well as Khwedam, Zambian Sign Language, several immigrant languages and the pidgins Settla and Fanagalo. English is the official language and the major language of business and education.
Generally, the indicative prefixes 'ta-' to the subject prefix except for the first person singular which changes to 'nshi' or 'shi'. Generally, the subjunctive adds 'i' after the pronoun prefixes and in most cases changes a final 'e' to 'a'. The infinitive occasionally uses the negative 'te'.
/l/ can also be heard as a tap sound [ɾ] in free variation. Post-alveolar affricates /t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ, ⁿd͡ʒ/ can also be heard as palatal stops [c, ɟ, ᶮɟ] in free variation among dialects. /w/ can also be heard as a labio-palatal [ɥ] when occurring before /i/. /f, v/ can also be heard as glottal fricatives [h, ɦ] in the Plateau dialect. [5]
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ku-kúr-a INF -grow- FV ku-kúr-a INF-grow-FV to grow ku-kúːr-a INF -shift- FV ku-kúːr-a INF-shift-FV to shift, move house The placement and proximity of vowels in Fwe influences tonal processes. Vowels placed at the beginning of a word are known as augments (glossed as AUG) and final vowels are those placed at the end of a word (glossed as FV). Tone is also affected by whether a vowel is ...
Doke (1928) described several unusual doubly articulated consonants in Ila proper, Kafue Twa and Lundwe. [6]In Ila proper, /hˠ*, h̰ˠ*, ɦˠ*/ are "modified glottal fricatives in which the air passes through the throat with considerable friction, and is modified by being thrown against the toothless [7] ridge and inside of the upper lip, causing concomitant frication there. ...
The locative prefix ku-(class 17) is also used impersonally when discussing the weather: [33] kukuzizima madazi ghano = 'it's cold these days' When the subject is a personal pronoun, the subject prefixes are as follows (the pronoun itself may be omitted, but not the subject prefix): (ine) n-kha-gula = 'I bought' (nkha-stands for ni-ka-)