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according action adjectives adverbs applied auxiliary Bantu languages beating CAREFULLY causative Central CHAPTER Class CLASSIFY clauses common commonly Comparative conjugation conjunctive consonants construction copulative definite derivative dials diminutive Doke e.g. in Zulu e.g. Lamba e.g. Zulu employed enclitics enumerative EXAMPLES final follows formation forms FULL function future GIVE Grammar Group guidance ideophones imperative indicating INDICATIVE MOOD infinitives initial vowel instance interjectives Interrogative Linguistic LIST locative manner meaning method monosyllabic mood names nasal negative Note nouns object objectival concord occur past pers person Phonetics plural positive possessive predicative prefix present pronouns qualificative rare RECORD Reference relative represented respect RULES sentence Shona significance sing sometimes Sotho Southern speech stems stress Study subjectival substantive suffix Swahili Syntax TABULATE tenses term tive tone types umuntu usually varieties verb verbal word Xhosa Zone