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Common terms and phrases
Africa African languages basic vocabulary Bleek borrowed Cameroon cl 9 class prefixes classification close vowels cognates Common Bantu comparative Congo consonant criteria dialect cluster diminutive Doke Eastern Bantu example Ganda gender genetic relationship Gloss goat grammatical Greenberg Guthrie Guthrie's high close vowels historical identified inflectional influence isiZulu Khoisan Kintu lala Lamba lexicon linguistic locative classes Malcolm Guthrie meaning Meinhof method modern languages morphemes morphological N.Sotho nasal compounds Ndebele Northern noun class noun prefix number of classes Observations on Classes original language palatalized consonants person phonetic phonological phonological system plural primary Proto Bantu proto language reconstruction river root scholars secondary prefix Semi-Bantu Sesotho shift rules Shona similarities sound correspondences sound shift rules South African Southern Sotho speakers stems sub-family Sudanic suffix Swahili Swati tree Tshwa Tsonga Tswana typological Ur-Bantu Venda village vowel system word pairs Xhosa zone Zulu and Sotho Zulu Sotho