RLST 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Grammatical Gender, Bantu Expansion, Nasal Consonant

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English doesn"t really have svcs in a language with true svc they are just as exible as a regular verb found all around the world common in niger congo languages. 600 million people/85% of africa speaks one largest family in terms of number of languages 1514 languages diverse with a lot of subfamilies features (cid:12254) Svo noun classes really rich systems for grammatical gender and noun classes. Lingua france (= language you use for communication among many groups in a, usually geographical, area - they will often contaminate or eventually replace languages) 5 million speak it as a rst language. 140 million speak it as a second language most swahili speakers only use it when talking to people who don"t speak their native language a lot of bantu words borrowed into english ***see slides (cid:12254) 3. 5 mil speakers belongs to gbe sub group. Svo no noun class at all, not even grammatical gender level tones.

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