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The phonology of Sesotho and those of the other Sotho–Tswana languages are radically different from those of "older" or more "stereotypical" Bantu languages.Modern Sesotho in particular has very mixed origins (due to the influence of Difaqane refugees) inheriting many words and idioms from non-Sotho–Tswana languages.
A classic example of a nasal carrying a tone: To form a locative from a noun, one of the possible procedures involves simply suffixing a low tone [ŋ̩] to the noun. To form the locative meaning "on the grass" one suffixes -ng to the word [ʒʷɑŋ̩] jwang ‡ [_ ¯ ], giving jwanng ‡ [_ ¯ _ ] [ʒʷɑŋ̩ŋ̩], with the two last syllabic nasals having contrasting tones.
Sotho is the root word. Various prefixes may be added for specific derivations, such as Sesotho for the Sotho language and Basotho for the Sotho people. Use of Sesotho rather than Sotho for the language in English has seen increasing use since the 1980s, especially in South African English and in Lesotho.
In Sesotho, nngwe is a variant (allomorph) of the adjective stem -ng used only for Class 9 nouns. The use of the number "one" in Sesotho is different from the other Sotho–Tswana languages, because the Sesotho -ng is an irregular enumerative which behaves sometimes like an adjective and can therefore become a noun.
S30: Sotho-Tswana group S32E brl: Birwa (S32E, Sebirwa, Virwa) Batibo 1998; Andersson and Janson 1997: 41-42 S30: Sotho-Tswana group S32F two: Tswapong (Setswapong) van Wyk 1969; Batibo 1998 S30: Sotho-Tswana group S33 sot: Southern Sotho (Sesotho, Sisutho) Jacottet 1927: i-xiii S40: Nguni group S407 nbl
Sotho phonology; Sranan Tongo phonology and orthography; T. Tamil phonology; V. Vietnamese phonology This page was last edited on 28 May 2022, at 15:18 (UTC). ...
The Sotho-Tswana languages are a group of closely related Bantu languages spoken in Southern Africa. The Sotho-Tswana group corresponds to the S.30 label in Guthrie's 1967–71 classification [1] of languages in the Bantu family. The various dialects of Tswana, Southern Sotho and Northern Sotho are highly mutually
Pages in category "Sotho language" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Sotho phonology; Sesotho poetry; S. Sesotho kinship;