African Studies Program, Indiana University, 1976. — 292 p. A graded introduction to Swazi, a Southern Bantu language of the Nguni subgroup spoken in Swaziland and South Africa.
Publisher: ALLEX Project, the African Languages Research Institute, University of Zimbabwe Publication date: 2002 Number of pages: 240 ISBN: 8290954298 Should we think of the Ndebele language as the language spoken among the Zimbabwean Ndebele, or as a branch of Zulu? Should the Zulu language be seen as the measuring rod of Ndebele, or should the Ndebele language stand on its...
Editor Peter J. Mitchell. — 2009. — 95 p. This grammar handout is meant to be a guide in terms of information. It is assumed that you will take the initiative and practice on your own with your language instructor, so only examples (not exercises) are given. Also this is not exhaustively in-depth. Hopefully these will facilitate reading the grammar book provided (if you want...
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies University of Oslo Publication date: 2007 Number of pages: 258 This dissertation explores two important issues in the analysis of the passive construction in Ndebele. The first is the syntactic properties of the passive construction in Ndebele. To this end, the dissertation uses the Lexical...
Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Publication date: 2011(preprint),2012(official release) Number of pages: 412 ISBN: 978-3847339557 Language:English/siSwati This study develops an analysis of three aspects in siSwati, a southern African Bantu language spoken in Swaziland and South Africa: PERSISTIVE aspect, encoded by the aspect marker -sa-, ALTERATIVE aspect, encoded...
Peace Corps, 1969. - 450 p. The present volume comprises an introductory course to spoken siSwati, an African language of the Niger-Congo group, also referred to as Swazi. The materials have two principle components, "Understanding siSwati" and "Speaking siSwati," each consisting of a series of "Cycles." The purpose of the U.S. component is to give the student an opportunity to...
Peace Corps. — x, 106 p. — (Peace Corps Language Handbook Series). One purpose of this Handbook is to provide you with cultural information which will help make your life in Swaziland more interesting. The second purpose is to provide you with large "chunks" of siSwati to read, look at, think about and ponder on. This material can be a good source book for the days after your...
Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010. — 389 p. — ISBN: 978-3838385372. Verbal Phonology and Morphology of Ndebele provides an in-depth study of some linguistically interesting aspects of verbal phonology and morphology of Ndebele, a Bantu language spoken in Zimbabwe. While exposing the intricacy of Ndebele verbal morphophonology by looking closely at the verb structure and...
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